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Doggie delirium descended on, then down, Coronet Peak on Saturday with the 49th annual Torpedo7 Dog Derby. For the first time in seven years, dogs...

NZSki has plans to super-charge Coronet Peak’s mountainbiking operation with an extensive network of new trails, including one it hopes will...

The equivalent of descending 113 times down Everest, it’s something very few achieve.

Mountain Scene By TRACEY ROXBURGH Coronet Peak finally managed to get punters on the hill yesterday after this week’s polar blast delivered enough white gold to get the Queenstown skifield across the line. Originally scheduled to open on June 19, Coronet’s been plagued by one of the warmest Junes in recent memory, hampering attempts to make snow, or keep it. But when the Arctic blast arrived this week, the snowguns fired up, and they’ve been been blasting out 320 litres a second since. The arrival of 25cm of wind-affected snow earlier this week was the finishing touch. ...

The mountain had been on hold on Tuesday morning while the team cleared the road and carried out avalanche control work, but reopened on Tuesday afternoon, with a warning to skiers that there was limited visibility at the top of the mountain and considerable avalanche risk. ”Please stay safe, respect the conditions and stick close to the main trails,” an update posted to The Remarkables website read. Supplied Queenstown ski resort The Remarkables also had 25cm of fresh snow overnight. NZ Ski’s third mountain, Mt Hutt in Canterbury, was also open on Tuesday, with no snow overnight bu...