Mt Ruapehu's ski fields have still been busy over the school holidays, despite a bad start to the season with little snow.

Thousands of skiers, snowboarders and sightseers will head up Mount Ruapehu this long weekend, with both skifields now officially open. This will be Whakapapa's first season under new operator ...

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Skiers are hitting the slopes at Canterbury's Mt Hutt for ... some off-trail areas which still had a high slide risk. Manager James Urquhart said they were grateful to finally be able to open. "It's a ...

If volcano skiing in a National Park is more your speed, Mt. Ruapehu is only three hours from the Auckland airport and has two of the country's biggest ski areas.

If volcano skiing in a National Park is more your speed, Mt. Ruapehu is only three hours from the Auckland airport and has two of the country's biggest ski areas. All the skiing in New Zealand is ...

Danielle Familton, Anahere Hepi, Katherine Swarden and Jonas Toftered were thrilled to get the winter ski season off to what chief executive Jonno Dean described as a "pretty good" start on ...

The centre of North Island is dominated by the peaks of the Tongariro National Park. No roads cross between the peaks and only two go any distance up the flanks of Mount Ruapehu to the ski fields of ...

The Treasury has warned closing down the ski fields on Mt Ruapehu would cost the Government tens of millions of dollars. But in a paper dated January 25, obtained by NBR under the Official Information ...

This winter’s bumper snowfall notwithstanding, the future of Ruapehu’s famous ski fields is highly uncertain. But the mountain itself will remain important in other ways.

The Government has agreed to give Ruapehu Alpine Lifts a $6 million loan to prevent the company from being liquidated and to enable the ski fields at Mt Ruapehu to open over winter.