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Was good yesterday arvo and this morning on fresh snow
Bob
Was good yesterday arvo and this morning on fresh snow
Bob
Charlottes Pass 2018. Trip Reports, Pics and Conditions.
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Dunno, but if you do, was it you chatting to us at the poma? I’m afraid the wind kept blowing away the words so i only caught 1/4 of it. But did catch that the person talking to us was listening to Led Zep.More than likely, I have a pr of orangey Apache K2's
Are you staying up here or just day tripping
Ahh, I remember the skis now you mention them.
We were only there for the Tuesday, otherwise you normally find me at perisher.
I had green dps skis & @DidSurfNowSki with me had green Blizzards.
Good to put a face to a fellow poster.I recall DidSurfNowSki because of his jacket colour standing near the Poma
Was good to nearly meet you guys, maybe next year
BobI think you can tell how good the morning was
That powder would have been amazing through the trees today ....I think you can tell how good the morning was
Charlottes really shines when you have kids in tow. Think of skiing Perisher with one beginner and one on a jealous boob at your lodge. There's no way you could whip out for a couple of quick runs between feeds or nappy changes there, or Thredbo. And when they take off on their own its not hard to pick them out in the 'crowd' because there aren't any crowds. Now my kids have left I still love the place, the friendly staff, lack of crowds, the views off the back, and after a big dump on Monday they don't groom it for a couple of days. Truly the best resort in Australia.
Our first 2 snow trips were to CP. My youngest celebrated her 3rd and 4th birthdays there. Back then they had an awesome kids club at the Chalet, where they could come and go all day. Great memories which kept popping into my head as I skied around there last week.Last edited:
Absolutely !
All our kids have been there either as babies, or in utero
All learnt to ski there growing up, and even as young adults still very much appreciate the place. Of all the places in Australia, Charlotte's is still my overall favourite.
Arrived Friday...windy. Snow came Saturday and we did not ski. The snow fall was great as we stayed at the lodge and pub - so light and dry and so much. Come Sunday and it was time for over snow and my first ski ever at Charlotte Pass - been skiing since 1984. Beautiful in all ways. Magic views and vision on the trip in and a day of changing conditions where really...all were suitable. Some great lines for fresh...so much. We were on the fourth or so chair when it opened for fresh across the board there and also further out through the tree glades. You don't get that anywhere else in NSW. It is just a corner, but so nice and was snowing beautifully as we skied through - wish I took pics then, but hey...you know. Snowfall was heavy then lighter then heavy etc with sun appearing now and then and very obvious crystal form flakes landing.
Could not have hoped for better. Last over snow out took us back basically as dark fell. Too many photos to load and the video in slow motion I took of dumping blowing snow in the light on Saturday night is entrancing...too big to load here. Magic....especially after being offered a room at the lodge on Friday night rather than camp at Island Bend...in the wind, for which we had done a dry run the day before to sort out a method etc.
Snow beside the road at Berridale on the way back today.
from Guthries
up Guthries
In we go
nice conditions
Views to the main range were not extensive...didn't matter
over snow back
Steps at top of Guthries
to the village from Guthries
departing time
from the top of the chair...deep soft untracked...ski patrol were doing slide control prior to the chair opening
the village
here is one from the trip my mate took on the chair after we had already been up
I went there last year and this year for a day each time and both times was very lucky to have 5-10cm+ of fresh snow overnight and bluebird day when I was there... the lightness of the snow and how long you get fresh tracks for are amazing.
My two biggest comments re CP though are I don't know how they make enough money to stay open - there seems to be hardly anyone there and... I don't know how you could ski there any longer than a day at once (unless you do some decent serious hiking/skinning) - there just isn't enough terrain. But the fresh tracks and lightness of the snow is amazing!
For what it's worth, here's a 3 videos I took when I was there on 1 August:
T-Bar
Chair
Poma
Haha we were there that day, we're standing in the line when you get to the bottom.
They get a cut of the club lodges turnover, not much investment so far, LOTS of maintenance, imagine the power bill...
You've only been there one day and haven't been off the back yet, get some AT gear, book into the Chalet for a week and get back to us...Excellent day atCP. Dropped into the Thredbo Val and back for lunch. Couple of brews, couple of runs and back pass the masses. Always a top day. Found some tits of steel.
Had a day at cp yesterday ok / good fresh untracked snow wide of Guthrie’s. cp would get pretty dull if you didn’t tour / explore unless you are a family wanting to get the kids into it. if so, it’s close to perfect.
Came back today from 1 week at CP .
Good xc earlier in the week beautiful weather but it froze solid minus 14.4 degrees and took until midday to soften in the sun , good turns down Clarke , Trapyard and Foxhole.
Nice dump of fresh snow on friday ,was storm skiing on the T bar but it turned a bit stodgy on Saturday.
Unfortunately the cable on Guthries broke so thats it for the season ?
Hahaha, parks wouldn't let gutheries get in the way of opening the road... they don't actually plow it do they, just let nature take it's course? Maybe it means CPV is up for 3 new lifts
Good day at CP on Tuesday using the Groupon Daytripper. Plenty of snow and very quiet. Lots of snow beyond CP. Looking forward to the new chair from the triple mid station towards Stillwell.
MR looked a bit solid at 8.30 so headed east to have a look at the slopes between Twin valleys and Perisher.Sweet day. Counted 8 others riding lifts.
Gutheries is a big out imo and not getting it fixed this season after it blew up shows poor commitment to customers.
No punters. Plenty of snow still....more than one way to get around Guthrie’s
Heading out from here in an hour or so onto the main range. Resort looks good today.
Skied part of the groomer today en-route from Stilwell. The resort has snow... plenty of snow! But nobody on it! Counted 5 people on the chair around 11:00 a.m.
Heading out from here in an hour or so onto the main range. Resort looks good today.
Staying with Chris and Ally are we
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