Opening of the 2004 Australian snow season
Mount Buller in Australia celebrated the opening of the 2004 snow season last weekend and is now blanketed in a fresh fall of the white stuff, so while Europeans bask in the heat of mid-summer, Australians will be swapping surf boards for snow boards.

Snowboarders Linda Richards & Nickel Wylie carving it up at Mt. Buller.
An
article (7 May 2004) was posted in 'Tales from here and there about this and that' on the Activity Holidays Guide ideas pages, featuring winter sports in the southern hemisphere.