Advice needed Showering in Perisher
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Don't remember iirc but I use public showers in the new day shelter at the main steps at Falls Creek, another resort far away from Perisher. I use free camping areas, caravan parks cost a fortune for the service level on offer.
Sorry haven't been following the whole thread but you used to be able to pay to have a hot tub and shower at Snowy Gums at Smiggins
http://www.visitnsw.com/destinations/snowy-mountains/kosciuszko-national-park/sawpit-creek/accommodation/kosciuszko-mountain-retreat
Google Maps: https://goo.gl/maps/NPLMvUWLzLv
their website seems to be on the blink right now, but I found an archived copy...
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Now, I would never advocate sneaking in to the shower block in the very early hours, like some uni students I know did around 1980 to 1982.
*yeah, yeah, the showers may have a key now. *
IMO - Kosi Park at Sawpit Creek sucks - no phone/internet reception - and basically 20kph back and forth from Jindy after dark with packs of roos around every corner. Fine for a couple of days without kids. Campaing under all those trees is pretty scary as well. Anyway that's my opinion on Kosi camping ground. Thredbo Diggings is probably a much better choice - excellent 3G reception - 5 mins to Ski Tube - and a fabuous river view at your door.
T River is usually cold year round. Though last couple of years it hasn't been that cold in December. No hot/showers at Diggings. But easy enough to rig one up. A really beautiful spot. Plenty of room to set up camp. Only issue would be a 2WD if it snows.
If that happens, you need to put chains on to get from the campsite to the road. If it snowed a lot, add a shovel as well.
I have showered/bathed in a creek in the Warrumbungles in June. Cold. But the Thredbo river at 7am, in deep shaded valley, would be much colder.
One summer I took a dip in a creek about 2 metres from the snowdrift that was its source. Them was the days, when there were drifts on the Main Range in January. Of course it was over 30 degrees when I got out, which makes a difference.
So camp at the Diggings.
Shower/swim Thredbo pool or wash in the river.
Beer and a feed in Thredbo.
Back to Diggings.
Early rise to the tube.
Breakfast Perisher.
Ski
Repeat
There are often still drifts on the Main Range in January. IMO it's the summer rains that finally kill off the drifts. January 2016 was apx 3 times over average rainfall - what was there in Dec was completely gone in late Jan this year. At least it was green as, whereas in Apr it was brown and sad. Back in 2013 on the day it hit 48C across most of the SE Aust there were drifts left high up while we lolled about in a water hole in the high snowy river down from the crossing.
That all said - the warmth in Thredbo River the past 2 summers - even in Dec - has been incredible. I've had old timers out fishing - tell me that you couldn't wade through it in Feb/Mar some years. But lately it's been warm as from early summer.
I've swum in the Thredbo at Ngarigo one June long weekend. Actually, swum might be an overstatement. I've immersed myself in the Thredbo etc etc... Yes, it was cold, but not outrageously so.
been there , done that.
walked through the bush one time rather than put the chains on. sneakers soaking wet though. walking thru ~15cms snow.
