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Warm ski season a warning of bleak future for Australia’s snow tourism: ‘So this is our new normal’

While holidaymakers have maintained ‘super positive attitudes’, average snow depths measured since 1954 have declined by nearly 20% If you freeze it, they will come. For now. On a…

Warm ski season a warning of bleak future for Australia’s snow tourism: ‘So this is our new normal’
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While holidaymakers have maintained ‘super positive attitudes’, average snow depths measured since 1954 have declined by nearly 20% If you freeze it, they will come. For now. On a weekday morning in early September, Perisher is beautiful. Too beautiful. The snow guns have just laid down a blanket of fresh powder when the lifts open at 8.30am, the front valley glistening as the sun rises over the S

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