Snow Report Mt Buller 2021 - Trip Reports, Pics & Conditions
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Are my eyes playing tricks on me or is that...
My thermometer is reading 2.3C, I reckon I get a degree of heat dissipation from the building, I need to get one of these: https://www.ecowitt.com/shop/goodsDetail/24
Can you do Bloody Hell - especially skiers right near the bottom??mowing shaky knees. Took 3 days!!!
Bloody Hell is almost unskiable now.
Summer grooming a disgrace for the last 15 years. Needs Team Bears up there with a few chainsaws.
Sadly page 52 of this shows how Bloody Hell is considered from a vegetation perspective: https://dc0b3a3e-6027-4943-8bb4-858...d/b19fc4_d41c921ea3764c6fa26341a4ce79f6d5.pdf
I am ok with the environmental stuff (even though most of the possums prefer lodges) but take Bloody Hell off the trail map cos as it stands probably need 2m of snow to be skiable!
Dont need to read that to boil down the plan in a short sentence
"Bring more possums from Hotham to Buller"
Someone should call the RSPCA on them, Buller isn't the natural habitat of the Possum, those Hotham ones will just starve to death there and produce runt litters that will fall prey to Birds etc, it's just animal cruelty.
I believe a food outlet. Toboggan hire. If they develop the snow play area they have control of the building alsoI’m curious to know everyone’s thoughts about what the season ahead might hold in terms of visitor numbers at Buller? (Assuming a COVID-safe business as usual on the mountain). I’m not sure what percentage of punters are international tourists on any given weekend, but with that market most likely out of the equation again this year, do you think we’ll still see strong numbers with the boost in domestic tourism? I worry for the businesses that depend on the snow season if they can’t take in a decent profit for another year. I know it’s strange to hope for crowds, but I genuinely mean it!! Do you think the ski-deprived regulars plus the Aussie tourists will be enough?
Hope you’re all doing well!
The biggest issue this year will be the usual one - snow.
Next biggest issue will be related to access due to limited bus/taxi capacity if there are still Covid restrictions.
They indicated transport bottlenecks like I hinted at earlier, and said that we should tell our customers to avoid peak weekends wherever possible unless they are lodge/apartment people or those who are well drilled in their routine. Spring/midweek should be pushed even more than normal. Getting to Mirimbah at 9:30 on a busy Saturday is going to be a bad time.
I'd be interested to know if there has been any difference in the pre-booking demand for the Buller bus's (both from Melbourne and Mansfield).
As any drop in demand from 2019 and prior would probably indicate more people planning to drive up, with added stress on roads and resort transport.
Hopefully by June public transport reluctance would have faded, otherwise it could be busy for those driving.Vax roll out might change the dynamics dictating degrees of general restrictions by the time the season arrives and we are some months off.Car pass secured
Interesting updates on snow season - slushies on from Anzac Day apparently.All time sunsets last weekend. Easy 100+ people up there, don't even see that in season
We're up for a few days and it's dead as a dodo up here now, couldn't even find a coffee today. Took a jog up to summit for sunrise this morning and barely saw a soul up or back.All time sunsets last weekend. Easy 100+ people up there, don't even see that in season
Gotta get the server part worked out, shouldn’t be too hard.
But this is the first snowfall since it went in and I think it’s a winner.
There’s nowhere near enough bandwidth to serve video, maybe when my Starlink dish arrives, but it’s nice that I can watch it when it’s snowing.
Cam is a pretty basic webcam off Amazon sitting on my window sill, it has an FTP function but it’s not reliable, I’ve got it set up to push images to my NAS at home every 5 minutes but the pics are often corrupted and also don’t always arrive, but it has a URL to deliver the latest pic, which is reliable, so I need some sort of script to poll that URL and then serve the images on an industrial scale.
Cool, so is that just via the camera’s included software?
Guessing no NAS or computer permanently at Buller? Low fi option would be to store locally to a folder with cloud service sync then access that sync. Proper option I imagine would be a lightweight script to do the same?
I’ve got a Raspberry Pi doing nothing at home so I bet I could get that to be a reliable intermediary up there.
about 10 cms on the ground, still snowing on and off. Seen someone going down the road
on a board earlier. Might need a new base on that later.Similar threads
