NZSKI

Tourism figures say the industry should concentrate on mitigating risk and creating opportunities in the current difficult climate.

Just 18 minutes after being alerted about Thursday's avalanche, searchers were out on the Remarkables skifield.

Despite Coronet Peak receiving "some particularly harsh treatment from last week's spring storms", NZSki is celebrating the deep, powdery outcome.

Completion of the McChesney Bridge upgrade is on track and dependent on the the ski season ending.

NZSKI lift operator Megan Burke is stocking up on eggs and spoons before Father's Day on Sunday.

Proposals by NZSki Ltd for a new 1.3km Curvey Basin chairlift, plus two new ski trails, snow-making facilities and more development at the Remarkables ski area have been welcomed by a veteran snow industry operator and a former world-level athlete in Queenstown.

A multimillion-dollar development proposed for the Remarkables ski area, the largest in its 26-year history, shows the confidence NZSki Ltd has in Queenstown, NZSki chief executive James Coddington says.

The buses NZSki lays on to take snow enthusiasts to Coronet Peak and Remarkables skifields are proving popular this winter.

In the first of our winter series Off Piste, profiling NZSki staff at Coronet Peak and the Remarkables, Heather Turnbull takes five minutes to fill us in on the ups and downs of her job.

Ten Wakatipu children have completed the Step Up programme at Alpine Health & Fitness, the first fully-sponsored health and fitness education programme in Wakatipu for overweight children.