Skiing in NSW, Australia - Thredbo, Perisher, Charlotte Pass and Mt Selwyn.

UPDATED: July 2016 

'Winter is here!'  Australia may not be the first place people think of when it comes to snow but the last two years' ski seasons were fantastic. This year only needs to be half as good to be stunning.

Lots of Australians head overseas each year to ski in America and Europe giving up a chunk of summer in search of snow, ice and wintery weather. Hey guys, I've got news for you - it snows in Australia too.

Perisher Valley, Skiing - 'Big Brother' Is Watching You?

David is a Thredbo man. Nothing I say or do is going to change that. Of the two premier ski resorts in New South Wales, Thredbo and Perisher, D's view is that there is Thredbo and there is daylight.

At Thredbo Alpine Village he can drive the car up to the lodge, park and unload outside the door, walk to restaurants and shops and stay in a self-contained apartment owned by our ski club. At Perisher he has to park the car 10 km away at Bullock's Flat, load our luggage onto the Alpine Railway, unload it all again at Perisher Valley terminal and then pay the equivalent of our combined weight in gold bars to have it transported by oversnow-cat to our communal club lodge.

Into the abyss!

We did it! We skied three days in a row.

Quite an achievement for a couple of fifty-somethings who aren't really that fit. By day three we found aches where we didn't know we had muscles. More of an issue was that we started to fall. When I start to fall it's time to go in - a broken shoulder many years ago drove home the fact that you don't necessarily just get up again. I'd like to say that I have been a cautious skier ever since but in truth I think I was always cautious.

How did this happen? What were we thinking?

We are at Thredbo again!

David is not an enthusiastic skier.  He has only two topics of conversation while we are on the slopes - 'What time should we stop for lunch/morning tea/afternoon tea?' and  'How early should we call it a day and head back to the lodge?'.  For us to go skiing twice in one season is almost unheard of. I don't know how it happened.  I think it has something to do with the fact that No. 1 son bought a yearly lift ticket for at the end of last year. In between trips to the snow with his mates he needed some extra ski-buddies and we are at the age when we accept time with the boys whenever we can get it.

Thredbo Village - without the snow!

It is that time of year again - D and I are in Thredbo.  David is a total ski-wuss (see my post 'Skiing, not cycling' - click here to read it).

We come for a week each year and I have to wonder why we bother. I'm flat out getting him to hit the slopes for more than three days. He absolutely refuses to ski two days in a row. I'm sure this isn't the man I married!

Thredbo NSW: Skiing not cycling

Ride - Skiing, not cycling
Where - Thredbo Village, Australia
Terrain - All downhill
Difficulty - Variable - not so easy when you fall and have to get up again.
Highlights - Having lunch in the sunshine, clocking up some easy 'on-snow' time.