The University of Otago is keeping a firm grip on the Michael Forrestal Memorial Shield at the Uni Snow Sports in Wanaka this week, despite strong challenges from other South Island campuses.
For Winter Games gold medallist Warner Nickerson, time spent in Dunedin and the Southern Lakes was the stimulus that helped him lift his Alpine ski racing career.
Andrew Wylie
He was top of the Kiwi bunch in yesterday's men's slalom event on Coronet Peak and made it through both runs with reasonable ease, but Queenstown local Andrew Wylie is keeping a level head.
Four days, 38 mushers, 160 dogs - the annual Wanaka Sled Dog Festival begins at the Snow Farm today.
Cardrona Alpine Resort will host the Special Olympics New Zealand National Winter Games next week.
Warning to parents: if your children still believe the tooth fairy, Santa Claus and Cardrona's Pengi the Penguin are real, don't let them anywhere near this page.
The latest snowfall has given southern skifields a boost in visitor numbers and, after a late start to the season, field managers are keeping a close eye on the weather for a possible extended end.
Otago Polytechnic snowsports senior lecturer Pete Bilous, of Wanaka, has been awarded one of 10 sustained excellence in tertiary teaching awards from the Ako Aotearoa National Centre for Tertiary Teaching Excellence.
With winter now well and truly here, the Mountain Safety Council's Avalanche and Alpine programme manager, Andrew Hobman, discusses some avalanche awareness issues for back-country snow explorers.
Despite competing at the age of just 17, Canadian snowboarder Mark McMorris has already made his mark on the international scene.
University of Otago student David Booth plans to transform Octagon in Dunedin into a ski and snowboard event later this month, thanks to more than 20 tonnes of snow from Cardrona.
After not competing professionally in ski cross since 2003, former national champion Sam Hazeldine knew he had to give it another go after watching the last Olympic Games.
The annual North Face Peak to Peak adventure race in Queenstown on Saturday will include some inter-mountain rivalry as skifield staff from around the area battle it out.
Twenty-three years after Queenstown's Fraser Skinner (58) first helped start the New Zealand Ski Masters, 2011 may be the first year the veteran skier and organiser does not compete.
Cardrona will again be hosting the Burton New Zealand Open this year, with New Zealand the first stop on the global snowboarding circuit.
Snow-lovers keen to practise ski and snowboard jumps and tricks safely will be in luck this weekend when the "super-sized" Airbag fall cushion returns to the Remarkables skifield.
Set to appear on the skifield from 10am to 4pm most weekends near the Sugar Bowl chairlift, the Airbag is used for professional and sporting stunt jumps.
Chris Riley, of Wanaka, took part in Treble Cone Ski Area's ice sculpting competition this week.
Skiers from around the Pacific will be on the slopes on Saturday, as Coronet Peak hosts the annual Dynastar Lange Junior Interfield series.
Snow Park New Zealand opened its Triple Line freestyle feature this week, with a combination of 10.7m, 12.2m and 18.3m jumps and more than 30 other features in and around its slopestyle course, in preparation for international slopestyle events.
The World Heli Challenge beginning in Wanaka this weekend, will put online the 60 international freeriding skiers and snowboarders drawn to the region for two weeks.
