What Goes on at Mount Buller to Prepare for the Snow Season?

The magic at Mount Buller doesn’t just happen. It takes a dedicated team, a lot of community spirit and some pretty impressive feats of engineering to ensure everyone has a blast up there every season. Let’s take a closer look at what goes into preparations.

The magic at Mount Buller doesn’t just happen. It takes a dedicated team, a lot of community spirit and some pretty impressive feats of engineering to ensure everyone has a blast up there every season. Let’s take a closer look at what goes into preparations.

Buller’s state-of-the-art SnowFactory has to be fully checked and ready to go. It’s a mammoth snow machine that needs to be primed for topping up the slopes throughout the season. And it works extra hard before people start arriving because the conditions are generally warmer in early June.

This year Mt Buller have installed a new SnowFactory tower on the main Bourke Street run. This SnowFactory 100 model is smaller than the main machine. But it’s also more agile. And it is clever enough to make snow at any air temperature. It’ll help build the base for when the natural snow starts floating down from the sky and carpeting the fields with fresh white powder.

The downhill racetracks need to be maintained too. Recently that’s meant digging trenches and laying pipes so even more snow can reach the track for speed demons. They’ve even built a whole new lift this year, a Doppelmayr 6-seater that’s going to take out of the village to the Baldy beginner run further up the mountain in just over two minutes.

Things don’t really feel like they’ve begun until the official snow season opening ceremony. It’s a big party with fireworks and celebrations in the beautiful alpine village over Queen’s Birthday Weekend from the 9th to the 11th of June. They’ll show off some of the fun you can have at the Twilight Sessions throughout the season: crackling fires, toasted marshmallows, live music, and wild toboggan rides until 8.30pm.

The beginning of the season is a chance to show off all the outdoor fun you can have up there: from husky sled rides, to scenic chairlift experiences and of course skiing and snowboarding.