Long weekend

The long weekend has just come and gone. The opening of the ski season in Australia. There is rarely any snow so early in the season but the media seems to be making a big deal of that this year.
Usually everyone apres skis on that first weekend. Catching up with mates and enjoying the beautiful mountains with a sense of anticipation.
Falls Creek hosts a mass swim in the Rocky Valley Dam which is not for the faint hearted. There might be something in it though.
My Brother in Law was Norwegian and his Grandmother, who lived well in to her 90's swam in the North Sea every day!
Tom used to love to ski all day, then have a sauna and roll in the snow. A habit that was not widely adopted by his Australian relatives!
We managed to finish painting outside before the weather changed, so blame us for the Indian Summer.

Winter

It has been an unseasonably warm May for Southern Australia. Good to enjoy real Autumn splendor. Some weather predictors are saying that it will be too warm to snow. It is very hard to get everything to line up perfectly.
There is seldom any snow for the opening of the season on the June long weekend. It is 13 degrees and rainy here today, which is a typical winters day. So I think it is pretty much business as usual.
Australian snow is precious. Overseas they measure it in huge proportions whereas here we treasure all we can get. Having said that, the consistency is different because of the dry climate AND we have many sunny days to enjoy it.
A snow associate working in Japan was talking about their Northern resorts where powder snow falls most days. What they don't say is that it is also overcast a lot of the time.
We enjoy blue sky, very old mountains and unique snow. What more could you want.