Mt Buller Snow Report Weekend 3-4/7/10

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UPDATE: Sunday 10:30am

Beautiful sunny day at Mt Buller:

UPDATE: Saturday 12:30pm

Just got back from a great morning skiing. The difference from last week is astounding, not an enormous amount of natural snow but enough to make the place looked white. However the amount of snow that has been made is astounding, and is an absolute credit to Mt Buller’s Operations staff.

As reported before, LBS is indeed skiing as if it is mid-winter, I didn’t make it to Wombat but will have a look this arvo. Summit is well covered, and there is a chance of opening down to Howqua soon.

Shakey Knees is back in business as well.

A small jump park is operating on the flats behind Koflers, and Koflers itself is open and back in business, the spaghetti shown below was great!

It was pretty foggy first thing but the clouds are clearing now and it should be a great afternoon. It wasn’t particularly photogenic this morning but I will take a few this afternoon and post them up.

Crowds aren’t too bad, there was a moderate line on Wombat chair but nowhere else, although Bourke St was pretty packed when I came back for lunch.

More this afternoon after some lunch.

UPDATE Saturday 10:30am

I’m back!

UPDATE: 9pm Friday

Funny scenes at the Skating Rink, all 4WDs are being fitted with chains. Haven’t seen that in a long long time. Looks to have been 15cm this week on the balcony, guns are blazing, will update mid morning tomorrow.

UPDATE: 12:30pm Friday

Just received this email from glisse:

Guns were on down Howqua all morning. Hoping to get Summit to Howqua open tomorrow if all goes well. Those new automated guns are making a big difference.

Mountainwatch LBS Cam is great watching at the moment!

LBS Cam has finally cleared up – looks great:

Once again Jane’s Weather has a great description of the current weather pattern that most of us can’t make hide nor hare of. There is the potential for snowfall early/mid-next week however the snowline will be the issue. I don’t like these sorts of setups, they usually end in tears unless the tropical moisture can link up with cold air from the SW. Fingers crossed.

UPDATE: 10:30am Friday

Excellent update from ‘luvthabumps’ from the ski.com.au forums, as posted here.

Just in from a couple of quick runs on LBS before meetings today. Driving up early this morning it was snowing lightly down to White Bridge and there was snow on the road from Boggy Cnr ( Creek??) Stopped snowing shortly after I arrived and unpacked the car ( of course)

Had a couple of runs down LBS. The cover is excellent – as CM said last weekend it mid-winter top to bottom. Wombat is OK top half skiers left, but not groomed. All the program kids are on LBS so it’s pretty chaotic already. Will head out after lunch and have a look at Summit and SK. On the snowmaking areas and around the village you’d swear we’d had a metre of snow already. The snow in the trees in unbelievable. Is it worth shelling out $99 – not sure, depends how desperate you are to do laps of 3 or 4 intermediate runs. If you have a season’s pass though you’d be there in a flash.

Snow quality is excellent though. I’d say great conditions for the first week of school hols. Snowing lightly again now.

luvthabumps is the co-provider of the wonderful Buller Village Square Cam, so if you ever run in to him, buy him a beer.

UPDATE: 8:30am Friday

Again it looks like a dusting of fresh overnight, with cold temperatures and snowmaking continuing. The photos received yesterday were encouraging and I’m looking forward to getting up early for a ski in the morning on Saturday.

Weather for the weekend looks to be more of the same tomorrow – cloudy, foggy and light snow, with a chance to see the sun on Sunday / Monday. More weather is rolling in on Tuesday – the forecast models are all over the shop, so I can’t really tell what’s going to happen however when things become more clear I’ll update. The GFS forecast shows a little rain ahead of colder weather, which is corroborated by the freezing levels shown on Weatherzone. The Weather Nerds are keeping a close eye on it.

I’ll also update this post once I’ve had a ski & taken some pics, also if I hear from friends on the hill today.

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