BULLER – Harro’s Photo Snow Reports
When the sun comes back up tomorrow, the season will begin! Image:: Harro
Buller’s Winter Countdown | Harro
Being based in Buller for the winter, we decided, made Harro our eyes on the ground for these final days before the season begins. He’ll be capturing the best of the next few days, so check back daily for his latest installments.
Friday 10 June – It started with Grant Denya from Sunrise doing the weather from Mt Buller and up skied Anna Segal (switch of course) to be interviewed.
At 12 pm they opened Bourke Street with free lift passes and even a small rail park that Anna and friends took a liking too.
Its days like this you realise just lucky we are to have snow in Australia and the views are gorgeous.
Tomorrow there’s a heap new terrain open, including for the first time ever on an opening weekend, the Wombat chairlift and Little Buller Spur run.
Anna Segal and Sunrise’s Grant Denya. Image:: Harro
Anna in action. Image:: Harro
Current slopestyle World Champion Anna Segal. Image:: Harro
Anna skiing up switch for her Sunrise interview
9 June
Thursday 9 June – A snowgun going no-stop all night can fire out a pretty decent amount of snow, which of course all builds up under the gun into a huge pile – known in the biz as a ‘whale’. Through Wednesday night Buller’s snowguns created whales all over the mountain, including this 3m high monster on Bourke Street. Come morning it’s the groomers’ job to smooth the whales out into perfect corduroy.
Tuesday 7 June – “Jock Gunn is a telemarker who I caught up at 11am on Tuesday morning at Buller. He walked into Cattlemans to warm up and have a coffee after spending the morning out tele marking all over the mountain, as by then he’d already skied all over the mountain from up the Summit and down to Burke Street.”
He usually skis around 60 days a season and has been skiing at Buller for the past six years. Originally from Tasmania, he’s skied most months of the year down there, as quite often they’ll get snow year round, even if its a few inches to slide around on.
His work as a surveyor in Bendigo gives him plenty of opportunity as he has five days off after every nine of working.
This wasn’t his first ski this year, it was actually at Baw Baw on one of the earlier snowfalls of the season, but he admits that today was much better.
He’s on the mountain every day he doesn’t work, not limited to Mt Buller, but heads out to Feathertop and for this season hopes to hit Bogong and The sentinel.
And his prediction for this winter? “Amazing, lots of fun, lots of good skiing!”
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