Not sure if its old news, interesting reading. Just short of 31 Mill planned to be spent.

CLICK FOR A LOOK AT THE PLANS

Cool, we can wreck it when we have our Shred on!!!!!

In 2025!!!!!!

It's great they are investing so much into resort infrastructure. Yet they were still the first resort to initiate the $699 season passes. Impressive.

Mizu where is the timeframe mentioned? Didn't see it in the link? Looks like total number of carparking spaces goes down, not sure about that, that carpark is regularly full to overflowing. Will be interesting to see what sort of clientele the new accom will be aimed at, for some reason I doubt it will be the budget snow traveller. Will make the place way more attractive for partying though I imagine with all that accom and the retail and bar areas I imagine would be included on the ground floor areas in such proximity to eachother.

Why can't they build a massive great big lift from Guthega to the top of Twynam, I would prefer that $31mill was spent doing that ha ha ha!

I just wish they'd build the Skitube all the way to The Station as originally planned. Then they could build more accommodation and facilities there. Imagine never having to sit behind a slow moving bus on the way to Perisher ever again!

By the way, you know the massive increase in national park fees a few years ago? That's indirectly helping to pay for all this.

Only guessin the ETA, nthn!!!!!

It's been in the wind for that many years, I'm just guessin that it'll probably be that long before it actually goes ahead?????

Chucky, the skitube would then probably be worth more than the lift ticket if that was the case I reckon.

Mizu with all the bullshit that needs to be done before anything can happen there you might be spot on with the timing. I wish they would build more lifts over the other side into the "backcountry', driving to Guthega and looking out to the main range it would be amazing accessing terrain that high and open!

I agree with ya completely nthn!!!!!

The same goes with Thredbo and probably most of our Aussie resorts, in that if they opened up more and more terrain with lifts/heli's/cat's maybe people wouldn't be flockin overseas as much as they currently do????? And we might even attract some more tourists, and possibly even a Winter Olympics one day as well!!!!!

Am guessing they will be heavily pushing ski tube instead of driving! That will suck :-(

Yeah, they will still wanna keep it viable enough, so as to make money off it forever and a day!!!!!

Apparently there used to be a lift that ran from Charlottes to Thredbo and was over 5km long and had a restaurant at the mid station so this sort of thing has been done before. It only lasted a year though which is a worry!

Imagine a chair going to the top here? Amazing on a day like this.

Yeah, I think that they didn't have the infrastructure to maintain that chair at a feasible cost!!!!!

There are some awesome pics around of it, and the snow in some parts look incredible!!!!!

The Thredbo Museum had a heap of stuff on it last time I stuck my head in there!!!!!

As i'm having an I hate work day today I did some reading. Seems the major issues were that the company running it was in dire financial straits to start with. They seemed to ignore the weather conditions and built a chairlift that was broadside to prevailing winds meaning that the chairs themselves got hammered by the wind. The first year of operations was a failure due to the massive amount of snow that season, over 3.5metres that hampered the physical operation of the chair. It also seems that if it was tried with the technology of today it would have stood a better chance as well, all this combined killed it which is a shame. Shouldn't stop them from building the "Main Range Chair" at Guthega though ha ha!

And some pics of that lift!!!!!

nthnbeachesguy - 28 November 2011 01:57 PM

Chucky, the skitube would then probably be worth more than the lift ticket if that was the case I reckon.

Like most consumer driven products, the Skitube cost isn't based on actual worth or expense, but on what people are willing to pay. Driving from Jindy to The Station isn't that much of a time/money saving from driving to the Bullocks Flat terminal, so people wouldn't really be willing to pay that much more. The benefit to Perisher would actually be in developing The Station as a drawcard destination, and bundling the Skitube into accommodation costs, like they currently do with lift passes.

Theoretically, the Skitube from The Station could also be a lot quicker, because it wouldn't be ascending as much.