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View of Coronet Peak during the ski season Coronet Peak is a commercial skifield in Queenstown, New Zealand located seven kilometres west of Arrowtown, on the southern slopes of the 1,649-metre peak which shares its name. A popular ski resort in the Southern Hemisphere, Coronet Peak offers a long snow season, well received skiing and snowboarding terrain and lift systems. Location The Peak is ...
The company offers ski rentals and lessons, offers a wide range of programs for all abilities and offers group bookings for schools and businesses. It also has a small store that sells gloves, helmets and socks and offers a range of off-snow services, including; a restaurant & licensed bar, meeting and conference facilities.
NZSki Ltd, or nzski.com manages three major New Zealand commercial ski fields; two in Queenstown, The Remarkables and Coronet Peak, and Mt. Hutt nearer to Christchurch. The company is based in Queenstown. It was formerly part of the Mount Cook Group [citation needed], which was bought by Air New Zealand in 1984 and split up in 1989. [1]
The original ski tow of the Waitaki Ski Club, installed shortly after World War II, and then moved to Awakino on the northern part of the St Marys Range. This tow motor now sits below the ridge tow at Awakino ski area. Lees Valley; Remnants of old tows can be found on both Chest Peak and Mt Oxford in the Lees Valley area of North Canterbury ...
Awakino (club skifield); Craigieburn Range Broken River (club skifield); Craigieburn Valley (club skifield); Mount Cheeseman (club skifield); Mount Olympus (club skifield); Fox Peak (club skifield)
Ski lesson. A ski school is an establishment that teaches skiing, typically in a ski resort.The modern version of the ski school was invented by the Austrian ski pioneer Hannes Schneider in the early 1920s when he formalized instruction methods and established these methods as teaching principles for all ski instructors at his school.
As a result, Cafe learnt to ski on his home hill of Coronet Peak from around three years of age. Career highlights for Cafe include winning Australian & NZ Cup (ANC) super-G and super combined races at Mt Hutt on 10 September 2008, in which he also recorded 26 FIS points.
Treble Cone is the largest ski area in New Zealand's South Island, equalled only by Roundhill after the installation of a 1.44 km (0.9 miles) rope tow (world's longest rope tow) in 2010. [5] Treble Cone has a vertical rise of 700m creating the longest runs in Queenstown Southern Lakes District, including the 4 km High Street to Easy Rider ...