Unfortunately I don’t stay there during summer so that would be a bit of a challenge.

@@pushnpow it was more a comment that they should or could provide to the new guys :)

Snowboard. I stopped skiing when I was 12

I have got one in later videos (coming up) because of the vibration coming through the mic, it’s much clearer. And yeah the lights in the old 400’s aren’t as bright as the ones in the new 600’s so the videos are a bit darker, but I’m working on trying to expose the videos better.

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Mt Buller, Australia

This was early August. I gave up uploading videos over winter because the internet was far too slow.

I’m not from Australia but it was interesting to do a winter there!

@@pushnpow Oh sorry bout that! Saw you were hopefully going to Norway, is it Trysil then?

Waiting on a contract to go to Norway this winter so fingers crossed I’ll be there in a few months…

Hey hey hey, I’m grooming that one goat track 😂 and it takes me 7 hours of carting snow with a bin cat just to get the one pass to the load 😅. Nah it has been a rubbish season, it’s going to hit the resort hard too, I believe they have to refund a portion of the season passes and a lot of school and club bookings for September so I guess they’re trying to recoup any loss they can. I see both sides, it sucks for the customer and it sucks for the resort, we got screwed by water restrictions early and screwed by warm, windy weather later, she’s been a rough season. I should be heading to Norway in November if all goes to plan anyway.

In the northern hemisphere you generally get really spoilt for snow and don’t have to try to hard to open a slope. In the southern hemisphere, mainly Australia and New Zealand, you really have to be strategic with snow management. It’s been a particularly warm winter, it happens every now and then, it just means we have to work smarter and manage the snow better.

It's mapped by GPS every time a cat drives over the snow. The basemap is generated by a GPS rover. The basemap only needs updated if the underlying terrain changes significantly.

As above it can be mapped by GPS rover or aerial drone mapping. I believe our slopes are a mix of drone mapping and rover mapping because of the wooded areas and whatnot. It’s fairly accurate though, very handy for operators doing their first season here (like me)

It certainly does this year but it can get a lot some years too.

Honestly it’s a way to gauge attention spans, cos there’s no point spending 6 hours uploading a 40 minute video if people only watch 10 minutes of it 😅

Yep, spending time in a dozer doing grading work usually teaches you good foot discipline 👌

I prefer sticks, but the yoke isn’t terrible. Sticks are better for precise work close to buildings or objects but yokes are pretty good for general grooming.

That’s alright, I’m barely a New Zealander anyway. I worked with an Englishman in New Zealand who previously worked for a Swedish resort and one of his friends from that resort got a managers job at another resort and needed a winch operator for the winter… then covid happened that winter so I ended up stuck in Sweden for 3 years. The ski industry is great for international networking, it takes you all over the place.

So I’ve heard. It’s not been good winter so far! We have had some more snow but also followed by more rain, so not the best winter so far.

That’s good to hear! I try my best to explain how I do things, it may not be the right way as far as some are concerned, there’s many different ways to do the same job. Hopefully it helps either way!

We aren’t doing huge nights so I’m also struggling for decent content 😅 but we are lucky to have something to work with even though it’s not much. New Zealand seems to be in the same boat, hopefully the big dumps aren’t far away!

We have 3 small and 1 large snow factory and their output is different, I’ll have to ask one of the snowmakers.

Yeah we have lances and snow-guns but there’s been a water restricting due to the dry summer so haven’t been able to use them much yet.

I keep getting asked to post more videos so I had to move to another ski resort! I’m working on new videos in 4K, which is very data and upload-speed heavy so they’re coming but they’re taking a lot more time and work 😅 hopefully I can keep you guys entertained for the summer!

Snart dags igen John😉😁

Hopefully the Australian winter will bring back to videos the people want 👌