Mt Hotham Alpine Resort: For Australia's serious skiers and snowboarders

By Craig Tansley
June 25 2016 - 12:15am
Hotham has some of Australia's steepest and most challenging runs. Photo: Mark Tsukasov
Hotham has some of Australia's steepest and most challenging runs. Photo: Mark Tsukasov

The snow outside is falling ever so slowly – star-shaped flakes so dry and weightless they don't fall so much as float through space like Santa's Beards kids blow on from dandelions. Centimetres upon centimetres of the white stuff is collecting in the rims of the floor-to-ceiling windows of the Yama Kitchen & Bar at Hotham Central. Wily Hotham veteran, and head of ski patrol for the mountain, Bill Barker, has seen it all before in his 20-plus years here, but he's still got the look on his face only a skier or snowboarder really knows anything about (like a kid the night before Christmas).

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