School-kids among first to enjoy snow at Mt Hutt
The ski area’s Magic Carpet and Quad Chair were cranked up for the start of the 2011 season and took visitors up the slopes — including a group of 120 school-kids from Australia — from 9am this morning.
Mt Hutt Ski Area Manager David Wilson said it had been “a great day” with visitors enjoying blue skies and heaps of positive feedback about getting open.
“More than 250 people from all around the world turned up today to help us celebrate our opening, despite it being a ‘partial’ opening at this stage. We expect those numbers to increase daily as the week goes on,” he said.
“It was great to finally get a lift operating and we handed out our coveted ‘First on the Quad’ T-Shirts.”
A further 30cm of fresh snow fell on Tuesday – mountain is looking amazing.