With recent snowfalls on the South Island, Te Wai Pounamu, there’s been a buzz around which skifield will be the first to open in 2023.
Apart from a three-day taster at the Manganui field in mid-May, which got a lot of North Islanders excited, the real snowfalls, and snow-making weather, have occurred in the south.
The Queenstown/Wanaka resorts have all recorded some decent snow for this time of year, with The Remarkables and Coronet Peak approaching the half-metre mark, about 75cm at Cardrona and an impressive 120cm in the upper reaches of Treble Cone.
Coronet Peak is on schedule to open on June 16, with The Remarkables and Cardrona the day after while, despite some great-looking statistics, Treble Cone won’t be skiing until June 24.