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Slippery slope: ski industry clings to hope of open season – The Age
Resort managers and the ski industry are hoping the ski season will go ahead in full this year after it was wiped out almost entirely in 2020.
Mount Baw Baw worker Amon Bradshaw with dingoes that live on the resort. Credit:Justin McManus
At Mount Baw Baw, a snow machine has been running 24 hours a day since early May, piling fine shards of ice into mounds that will be spread out across the ski runs to provide a base for the natural snowfall.
Several snow guns also run throughout the night when the temperature falls below 2 degrees and the humidity is right.
Mount Baw Baw general manager Andrew Tingate said snow making was important because…
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