Hotham Snow Report 05-08-14
More of the same. A bit boring I know, but it looks like another absolute cracker of a day with a clear sky and a very light southerly. Thanks to the consistently cold temperatures for the last few days the snow is still chalky dry in most areas, with just a few of the north…
Read moreHotham Snow Report 4-8-14
Another close to perfect day on the way by the look of it. The sky is clear, the temperature is minus 5 and the moderate north-westerly is giving us a wind chill of minus 12.6. The snow is still dry across most of the resort with the best of it being the high traffic areas off…
Read moreHotham Snow Report 3-8-14
If you are a fair weather skier, it does not get much better than this. The sky is clear, there is hardly and wind and the snow is cold and dry. Yesterday there was lots of well warranted banter about the quality of the snow, and I expect the same sort of carry on out…
Read moreHotham Snow Report 02-08-14
A super Saturday on the way by the look of it! We have had 17 cm of super cold dry snow in the last 24hrs with about half of that coming overnight.The sky is clear and there is a moderate southerly blowing. Yesterday just got better and better throughout the day and my last run…
Read moreMt Hotham Snow Report 1 August 2014
This is a bit more like it. We have had 8 cm overnight and it is still snowing lightly now. The wind has backed off from the “all lift closing” gales of yesterday afternoon, to a moderately strong north-westerly this morning. At the moment the base is still soft underneath the fresh but this may…
Read moreWrap-up from the Gulmarg trip
I hope you scored your share of powder turns this past northern winter. Those who visited Gulmarg with Bill’s Trips certainly did. Once again, good snow conditions were on offer nearly every day of the season, and every trip had epic turns for the majority of their stay. It is very, very hard to find…
Read moreThere it goes
As you can probably guess, ‘Blogging’ is not really my thing. Although I intend to do regular updates duriing the winter, they rarely (not at all this winter) happen. As our only guide under 40 (just), Sam has taken over social media duties and was posting almost daily on Facebook. Check out our page for…
Read moreHere it comes
Gulmarg has received a couple of decent storms over the past week, and another is forecast for New Years Eve. Stay tuned for updates but we should see the upper mountain soon, and we will be scoring the first powder turns of the season not long after. Our peak season trips are mostly full however…
Read moreSnow Travel Expo is on again
The Snow Travel Expo is on Sunday the 19th of May in Melbourne and the 26th of May in Sydney. Drop by the Bill’s Trips stand to have all your Gulmarg questions answered. I will also be giving a skiing Kashmir slide show presentation on the big screen at each event. Hope to see you…
Read moreThe storm
The storm has ended and we ended up with 120cm of fresh snow at the hotel in less than 24hrs. The skiing has been epic on Monkey Hill and the trees below the plateau. The upper mountain has the best looking cover for a few years, and once the patrol has finished avalanche control we will be…
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