Cardrona Alpine Resort is welcoming a fantastic top-up of snow on the mountains as it gears up for the biggest events of the New Zealand winter season.
Yesterday’s polar blast brought with it another few centimetres of fresh snow on top of a great snow base – a reminder that winter is far from over.
Next week sees the start of Winter Games NZ, with the programme including two World Cup freeski and snowboard events – the first in New Zealand since 2019. Also in the calendar for August is Winter Pride, with the Monster Energy Jossi Wells Invitational the highlight for September, and the New Zealand Freestyle Nationals will see some Kiwi up and comers show off their best in October.
Winter Games NZ will see Aotearoa’s best taking on the world, with all visitors to Cardrona invited to watch the action. Preliminary entries include Zoi Sadowski-Synnott, Nico Porteous, Luke Harrold and Lucia Georgalli all of New Zealand, with major international names including Eileen Gu (CHN), Alex Ferreira (USA), Marcus Kleveland (NOR) and Dusty Henricksen (USA).
The Cardrona Parks crew have been busy building the Winter Games NZ courses, including Australasia’s only full-length World Cup halfpipe.
“It’s incredibly exciting to be back into the swing of major events at Cardrona, and welcoming some of the world’s best back to our little corner of the world,” says Cardrona and Treble Cone GM, Laura Hedley.
“We encourage everyone to come up and check out all the action… and with all these big names in town, you never know who you’ll end up sharing a chairlift with.”
The Treble Cone season is still in full swing for just over another month, with TC Closing Day set for September 29th, with great snow coverage across the mountain.
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