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A normal Heineken tastes pretty close to water in my opinion.

I went for a quick trip down south to wander about our mole hills over New Year. I went to a few breweries and tried some great beers. Bright is a small town down the hill from Mt Hotham and Falls Creek which are both on Epic. I think @Patrick has skied at those. @jamesdeluxe you’ll be...

I’m pretty sure I’ve had the pale ale variety of Dale’s. Nice score @jimk . $1a can is unheard of here. I’m happy at $2 per can.

I'd love to be at Pila with fresh snow. I've only had a day there in hardpack conditions but the whole ski area looked great.

Thanks. I've read that before but it's nice to read again. I've not been on snow for 9 months so I'm more than keen.

I did see that. Let’s see it on the ground before we get too excited. To be honest I don’t want snowmaggedon because I don’t ski powder that is more than thigh deep well.

If I get desired conditions when I’m there in a few weeks I’ll go to a couple of small two or three lifts completely under the radar ski hills and post some pics and thoughts. If I get a warm up or what would be rain at the low elevation resorts I’ll stick with Shiga. I’m only skiing for 7 days...

Go to the ski areas where there are no Australian or American yobbos. This might mean there are no lively apres opportunities. Shiga Kogen for example has a very limited bed base but it Japan’s largest and highest ski area. The accommodation is antiquated and quaint and run by Japanese...

I have been to many Australia Day celebrations that have involved over indulging in alcohol but I’ve never seen a fight or beer bottles broken. You must have experienced the ‘Bali on snow’ Aussie bogan behaviour. I’m sorry about that. These people are the same group that are currently all anti...

Stay away from the resorts that westerners go to. Simple. It’s cheaper too.

At least it would be a well organised and civilised USA style line.

Much higher chances of a skiable base in March.

Whitewater grouped in with those four?

I'm wondering what the point of opening is? Surely it would be easier to save the expense and wait until meaningful terrain can be opened.

That looks mind blowing. Can anyone suggest similar trips to Norway/Sweden mainland? I think you did one @Tony Crocker ?

I stayed in the village/town for a week in April 2024. The skiing was good as we got more snow that week than any other week in the season apparently. I didn't like the feel of the village though. The slopy (yeah it's a ski village) topography doesn't grab me. It felt a little soulless to me. A...

Sorry. I thought you were speaking generally.

Vail? Breck?

Incidentally we in Oz measure blood cholesterol in millimoles per litre while in the US you measure it in milligrams per decilitre I believe. Multiply the Australian measure by 18 to get the US measure apparently. Without statins my cholesterol level is near in 200 in your measure.

I’ve had two. One at age 50 to get a baseline. It showed “about as much build up as the average 65 year old” and one at 52 that showed little change. My maternal grandfather dropped dead of a coronary while refereeing a rugby league game at age 36. It appears the statins have been doing their job.