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

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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 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 Snowy Mountains.

People ski on human-made snow at Perisher Blue Ski Resort.

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