Day 3 of our recent snow trip arrived with some more great weather so after getting up early and getting a prime spot in the resort carpark we decide to visit Mount Blue Cow and Guthega Peak. A prime spot in the car car is anywhere near the front, close to the yellow pedestrian crossing because after a long day of skiing the shortest and most uncomplicated walk back to the car in ski boots is much kinder on your legs.
So after a bit of a warm up on Front Valley it was straight to the top of the quad chair lift where we started the traverse to Mount Blue Cow.
There was a lot of exposed rock and grass, on previous trips this area had lot more snow cover and was totally whited out.
The trail is very well marked but it is easy to take the wrong track and drop to low, but the worst that can happen is you end up in a different part of the mountain and catch a different chair liftback up.
We needed a short magic carpet ride to get to the main Blue Cow terminal Building.
Luckily we got there early enough to beat most of the crowd. It does not take long in Australia for the sun and the people to carve and soften all the nice groomed snow up into a sticky heavy sludge.
The Blue Cow terminal building is actually connect by an under ground ski tube train which runs half the way back to Jindabyne. There is a ski school lesson happening behind us.
On the chair lift spotting some over night wild lift tracks.
The chair lift to the top of Guthega Peak and back to Mount Blue Cow.
Pretty Valley café.
The Interceptor chair lift, I love it there not many people waiting in line.
The home trail back to Perisher car park.
It is a bit hard to make out but the heavier red lines are the trail and chairlifts we used on the strava screenshot.
