Whakapapa's Happy Valley will be the first ski area in New Zealand to open for the 2017 winter season.
The first day of Happy Valley's season is tomorrow, a full month before its usual scheduled opening day.
There will be opening week specials for the first seven days of Happy Valley's 2017 season to celebrate the early opening.
The purchase earlier this year of New Zealand's only Techno Alpin SF210 All-Weather Snowmaking System has allowed the ski area to make sufficient snow to open the Double Happy Chairlift for Queen's Birthday Weekend, in spite of recent rain and warm temperatures, it said in a statement.
Newly bought carpet lifts will open when conditions allow, but opening day will see Happy Valley's chairlift operating.
The Snow Factory will also blast a snow pile into the Happy Valley Plaza for guests who are not skiing or snowboarding, to get their first touch of snow for winter 2017.
The scheduled opening date for both Whakapapa and Turoa Ski Areas is on July 1.