SKI REPORT
Turoa Skifields close today but the snow keeps falling. Yesterday, there was snow down to the 1 2 kilometre mark, said Turoa's Andy Chapman. "It's very much like the beginning of the season, it's got that June-July feeling about it," he said. Turoa was closed on Saturday due to strong northwesterly wind but, although
there was limited visibility on Sunday, the field opened and there was good skiing on the trails due to Saturday night's fresh snow. About 600 people visited Turoa over the weekend. Whakapapa Skifield stayed open throughout the weekend, despite poor weather. Park ranger, Paul Dale said that about 800 people visited the slopes on Saturday and about 700 on Sunday. He said there were several cases of skiers having very sore eyes and snow blindness because they were not wearing adequate glasses. Yesterday morning there was five centimetres of new snow at iWikau Shelter and it was still moving. Whakapapa closed for the season on Sunday.
Permanent link to this item
Hononga pūmau ki tēnei tūemi
https://paperspast.natlib.govt.nz/newspapers/WAIBUL19851105.2.46.2
Bibliographic details
Ngā taipitopito pukapuka
Waimarino Bulletin, Volume 3, Issue 24, 5 November 1985, Page 20
Word count
Tapeke kupu
162SKI REPORT Waimarino Bulletin, Volume 3, Issue 24, 5 November 1985, Page 20
Using this item
Te whakamahi i tēnei tūemi
Ruapehu Media Ltd is the copyright owner for the Waimarino Bulletin. You can reproduce in-copyright material from this newspaper for non-commercial use under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International licence (CC BY-NC-SA 4.0). This newspaper is not available for commercial use without the consent of Ruapehu Media Ltd. For advice on reproduction of out-of-copyright material from this newspaper, please refer to the Copyright guide.
Log in