Friday, 16 August 2013, 11:28 am Press Release: TrebleCone
3m Snow Depth & New Snow in the Saddle
Basin
The snow depth in the Saddle Basin at
Treble Cone (Wanaka NZ) is currently over 3m deep, which is
an amazing amount of snow and has allowed for trails such as
Cloud 9 which only get groomed in great snow years to be
regularly groomed over the past weeks.
Treble Cone has had
brilliant skiing and snowboarding both on and off-piste
through the first couple of weeks of August, and looks
fantastic for the coming weeks.
Over the last week
Treble Cone has received regular snowfalls adding up to 46cm
of new snow fallen in the Saddle Basin, and 25cm of new snow
in the Home Basin.
More snowfalls are forecast for
tonight and Friday morning.
This Saturday Treble Cone
hosts the Export 33 Banked Slalom public entry snowboard
event, offering a massive $1000 cash to each of the fastest
male and fastest female, and with the amount of snow
available the course and spectacle promise to fantastic.
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