Don’t Mention The War

Not much to blog about this weekend. It rained, and the Bombers lost. 🙁

Had a few phone calls / SMSs from the hills that have not been particularly complimentary, nothing really worth publishing.

My good friend Lorraine Lock from snow-blind feels the same way – if you can’t talk about skiing, talk about shopping!

Shopping has been a large part of the agenda for the weekend – Nic and I have been like squirrels hoarding nuts for the winter, this could well be the last day until September that I see the outside of my house in daylight, and the state of my courtyard on Grand Final Day usually attests to this. We’ve been to the Supermarket, Sth Melbourne Market, Dan Murphy’s & Costco, our freezer is chock full of great food and we’re ready to stock the lodge.

The cam that is the litmus test for me at the moment is the Mountainwatch Little Buller Spur Cam – at the moment it’s showing that lower LBS is a little thin, but hasn’t completely been washed away.

So I’m looking forward to the week ahead, there’s a few clear days coming up which are hopefully good for cold clear nights and snowmaking, followed by some weather coming in later in the week.

The gurus on the ski.com.au Weather forum will no doubt be discussing it this week, keep an eye out for the Predictions and Observations threads, also Jane’s Weather and of course aussieskier.com. I’ll be keeping an eye on things and summarising the parts I feel most important right here.

For a blog that has only been going for a little over a week the response has been overwhelming, I only got Google Analytics up and running on Tuesday, since then I’ve had 2,700 visits and 5,500 page views – Thursday was a monster, which is no surprise as this is the day people make plans for the weekend and Snow Reports are usually featured on the evening news etc. Tools like Google will show me which items are popular/unpopular and where to concentrate my efforts.

Also a shout out to Miss Snow It All for her mention of aussieskier.com in her Fairfax blog this week. We obviously feel the same way on the topic of snow reporting.

So thanks for all the support, don’t forget to follow me on Twitter and Facebook, and most of all please leave lots of feedback and tell me what it is YOU want from this blog over Winter 2010!

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