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Thredbo Parks: The Feature Preparation Battle

Every year Thredbo Parks’ soldiers don the overalls and prepare our fleet of features to ready them for battle. After a winter of use and a summer of storage, the features are pretty beat up… some serious TLC is required! Rust is removed, welds repaired, panels replaced and fresh coats of paint applied.

Family Fun 101: LEGO Friends Snow Festival

Calling all LEGO®-lovers and their families: Thredbo is the place to be this school holidays as the new LEGO Friends Snow Resort buddies come and make Thredbo their home for the LEGO Friends Snow Festival, July 1 – 15 2017. Kids of ALL ages can get excited for 2 weeks jam-packed full of  FREE activities for a school holidays like no other.

The Weather Guy – There’s snow in sight!

A series of fronts are due to move over southeastern Australia over the weekend, with snow showers expected to develop over the higher peaks late on Saturday evening and into Sunday. At first, snow flurries should fall to around 1600m in gusty northwesterly breezes before winds swing west/southwesterly and colder air moves in on Monday morning.

Week 2 and the Skies Were Blue

Another week of stoke on the slopes… a string of perfect bluebird days made for mountains of fun! Check out our wrap for the week.

The Art of Snowmaking

Snowmaking has been around for a while. The first snowmaker was developed in the 50’s from a garden hose, a 10 horsepower compressor and a spray-gun nozzle. For Thredbo, the art of snowmaking arrived in 1987, the same year the first mobile phone call was made in Australia.

The Weather Guy: Thredbo’s Resident Meteorologist

Welcome to the first Weather Guy forecast for the season, our new resident meteorologist provides an insight into what weather to expect this week and the chance for some potential snowfall across the weekend.

Snow, Sun, Smiles & Stoke…A Taste Of What’s To Come

Whether you were a first-time skier, an expert in après, a snowball enthusiast or a seasoned snow bunny, there was no shortage of stoke during a weekend of huge parties, freshly groomed trails and plenty of high fives to celebrate our 60th season.

Thredbo Parks: Getting the Band Back Together

Winter 2017 is set to kick off with a bang this weekend. Thanks to natural snowfall and great snowmaking conditions we will be sliding on Saturday, the official opening day for Threbdo Resort. On top of that Thredbo Parks is stoked to announce that we will have a Terrain Park on offer… a beginner box line and an intermediate tube line. What a treat, terrain park action on day one of the season!

Dealing With Thred-FOMO

Thred-FOMO. It’s a thing. With an awesome schedule of back to back events this long weekend, Thredbo-fear-of-missing-out is a phenomenon affecting many snow bunnies and apres-enthusiasts who want to make the most of both the mountain and the epic social scene. If you are a sufferer, there’s no need to stress – I’ve got you covered with how to make the most of the 2017 opening weekend.

Thredbo 60 Years of Stoke: The Next Generation

For the 3rd instalment of the 60 Years of Stoke video series, we take a look at Thredbo in the 90s/2000s and today through the eyes of Thredbo Ambassador and Olympic Gold medallist Torah Bright.

Torah takes us on her journey from her first days on snow at Friday Flat, to winning Olympic Gold and now inspiring the next generation.