Newsletters
Our newsletter is produced twice yearly, (Winter and Summer editions).
Download any of our newsletters from the list below.
Our newsletter aims to
- inform members about PHS activities,
- profile people who have influenced snow sport recreation and industry in the Perisher Range Resorts,
- recount the stories of those who have experienced the wonder and challenges of skiing, working or living in the Perisher Ranges, and
- include any other snippets of information that may appeal to those interested in snow sports and Snowy Mountains history.
Your story is interesting to lots of people!
Surprised? Well, don’t be – share your experience with us.
Long or short, a paragraph or a page, it all contributes to a profile of times past.
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EMAIL info@perisherhistory.org.au
PHS Newsletter Issue 32 – Winter 2024
President’s Report
June Long Weekend
Annual Lunch
ISHA Awards
Kosciusko State Park
To Kosciusko by Rail?
Ski Lodge Design
70 Years Ago
Farewell Mt Perisher Chairlift
PHS Newsletter Issue 31 – Summer 2023-24
Presidents Report
Diary Dates and News
Hello in the Snow
Guide to Writing a Lodge History
Blue Mountains Ski Resort
The Perisher Range
Colin Wyatt
PHS Newsletter Issue 30 – Winter 2023
President’s Report
Books for Jindabyne Library
Diary Dates and News
Annual Lunch
Honorary Membership
AASHA Conference
Trove, Snowy Monaro Business Awards
Design of Perisher’s first ski lodges
Sydney to Kosciusko by Air
Perisher Access Loop
Vale – Kore Grunnsund
Kiandra
PHS Newsletter Issue 29 – Summer 2022-2023
Notes from the President
Diary Dates
AASHA Conference
Hello in the Snow
First Skiing on Barrington Tops
Zali Steggall
Ric Phillips
Bits and Pieces
Vale Alec Costin
Vale Frank Prihoda
Skiing Instruction
Grass Skiing
PHS Newsletter Issue-28-Winter-2022
President’s Report
New Publication – “George Petersen’s Kosciusko”
AASHA Conference
Annual Lunch
The Alpine Hut
The Cohen Collection
Letter to Mum
The KAC Race
60 Years Ago
PHS Newsletter Issue 27 – Summer 2021-22
Snow Australia Medal
Creel Lodge History
Changing of the Guard at FIS
National Film & Sound Archives
70th Anniversary of the first KAC Lodge
Telemark Ski Club 70th Anniversary
70 years ago in 1952
Oversnow Transport in the Kosciuszko Area
PHS Newsletter Issue 26 – Winter 2021
Notes from the President
The Creel History
Ski Tuning Maestro
The Perisher Ski Jump
How Not to Learn Skiing
A Woman to the Top
Charlotte Pass Memories
PHS Newsletter Issue 25 – Summer 2020-21
Alpine Eyre Kiosk
My Pioneer Trip to Kosciusko – Percy Pearson
Fashion Advice 1933
The First Winter Ascent of Mt Kosciusko 1897
Vale Kurt Brulisauer
PHS Newsletter – Issue 24 – Winter 2020
Book – Hotel Kosciusko
Summer Fires
Hut Wrapping
Cliff Wallis – Sundeck
Summer Skiing at Sea Level
Vale Margo Feiersinger
Vale Len Hibble
Stone Churches on the Monaro
Kiandra to Kosi c 1939
PHS Newsletter Issue 23 – Summer-2019-20
Presidents Notes – Garry Fisher, Paul Reader
Happy Birthday KAC (110 years)
Paddy Pallin: a mountain legend
Kiandra Courthouse Mural – (Jan Glover)
Thirroul Ski club 50th Celebration
PHS Newsletter Issue 22 – Winter 2019
Charlotte Pass Staff Reunion
Sixth AASHA Conference (Ben Lomond)
Three weeks in Red Hut by Peter Stitt and others
PHS Newsletter Issue 21 – Summer 2018/19
Vale Colin Myers
Life above the snowline (Nick Kennedy)
Skiing Mt Townsend (Warren Peck)
Three weeks in Red Hut (Peter Stitt)
PHS Newsletter Issue 20 – Winter 2018
Presidents notes: Frank Walker, Bob Strizek, Barry Wrenford Collection
Vale John & Pat Davis
AASHA Report
Where did skiing begin (Judy Thomson)
11TH PHS Dinner and history of Johnny Abbotsmith
Frank Walker
Bob Strizek
PHS Newsletter Issue 19 – Summer 2017/18
AASHA Conference – Perisher
Dave Woods by Philip Woodman and others
Perisher Ski Patrol 50th Anniversary
The Dares of Smiggins retire (by Chrissi Webb)
Kiandra to Kosciusko by Paul Reader
Wooden Stave Pipes – Rainbow Lake (Jan Glover)
PHS Newsletter Issue 18 – Winter 2017
Perisher Reunion
Jean Findlay-Gower
The Big Blizzard
Water from the Rock – Warren Peck
Geoffrey Hughes obit
Charles Kerry and the Tyrrell collection
PHS Newsletter Issue 17 – Summer 2016/17
Neville Gare
Rex Cox, Joan Gardner
The Secret Wax
Bert Gardner
PHS Newsletter Issue 16 – Winter 2016
Sydney Cocktails report
Annual Dinner report
Ski Touring near Mount Jagungal – by Warren Peck
Vale Park Pioneers
Personal Reflections on Carl Melvey – by Graeme Hearl
Peter Ward OAM
Vale: Bob Arnott (1922-2016)
Zurich to Cooma – part 2 – by Hans Zollinger
PHS Newsletter Issue 15 – Summer 2015/16
Hello in the Snow photos
Mad about the Mountains (Edmondsons) – by Judy Thomson
Major Bernard Head – by Dianne Cree
Walter Spanring 1930-2015 – by PSK
Trip to Kosciusko in 1907 by Prof Edgeworth David (the coracle on Blue Lake)
Zurich to Cooma in 121h, 5min – by Hans Zollinger
Constance Crisp 1926-2015 (with photo of Crackenback lodge)
Lenny Harrison – by Denis Vanzella
Christian Keller and Franz Pichler
PHS Newsletter Issue 14 – Winter 2015
Annual Dinner report
Wragge’s Hut – by Wendy Cross
Snowfield colder than Antarctics – newspaper clipping
Alpine bindings – by Peter Southwell-Keely
Lou Vozab – by John Davis
Perisher in the Sixties – photos by Joe Gois
PHS Newsletter Issue 13 – Summer 2014/15
Hotel Kosciusko – Olive Cann . With poster of lady skier
Mt Kosciuszko – 175th Anniversary (PSK)
A.E.J. Andrews Eulogy – by Klaus Hueneke
The Exclusive Squirrel Club – by Bill Kenyon with photos (Jan Glover)
Kandahar Ski Club 60th Birthday
PHS Newsletter Issue 12 – Winter 2014
Life Above the Snowline – Penny and Peter Abbott at Sponar’s Chalet
PHS Book wins International Skade Award
Sasha Nekvapil Vale by Chrissi Webb
Dinner report and photos – speaker Ron Webb
The Crackenback or Thredbo by “Samford” (GW Kenyon)
Chas Skinner History Collection
Kiandra Butter pat skis on loan
Sydney to the Snow 1938 by Olive Cann
Old colour picture (full page) of Hotel Kosciusko with skiers outside
PHS Newsletter Issue 11 – Summer 2013/14
The Carl Walter Frankel Collection
President’s Notes
A Walk through the Old Hotel Kosciusko by Olive Lamble
Illawarra Alpine Club 50th Anniversary Book
Monaro Sculptures – the Snowy River Sphere
Highway To Heaven wins the Skade Awards
Vale Elizabeth Sponar
Vale Deidre Shannon (nee Gallagher)
New Book – The King Of Hotham by Gilliam Salmon
PHS Newsletter Issue 10 – Winter 2013
Uwe and Gil Boehm
Don Skinner (re working at the Chalet, and hotel)
Lunch with Perisher Pioneers – Feiersingers
Highway to Heaven – book launched at Dinner
Monaro Sculptures 2: Monaro Totems – by Geoff Farquar-Still
Christian Keller – A Venerable Ski Instructor – by Doug Sanders
PHS Newsletter Issue 9 – Summer 2012/13
John and Pat Davis – Life Above the Snowline
Marian and Bill Clark
Australian Skiing – The First 100 years, by Wendy Cross. Book Launch Sydney Sept 2012
Monaro Sculptures – Green Mountain Blue 11
PHS Newsletter Issue 8 – Winter 2012
Presidents Notes
50 Wonderful Years by Sally Miller (Beachcombers, Boonoona, Dulmison, Geebung, Hus-ski, Mirrabooka, Tambaroora, Yaraandoo,)
A Golden Anniversary for our Mountain Home – Fjellheim –by Sandra Dwyer
Ku-ring-gai Alpine Lodge history
Vale Adrienne Smith OAM – by Philip Woodman and Ron Finneran
Klaus Hueneke AM by Graham Scully (KHA)
Chris Brangwin AM
Dinner at White Spider
PHS Newsletter Issue 7 – Summer 2011/12
150 Years of Skiing – Stamp Issue
Presidents notes
40th KAC Cross-Country Classic report
Perisher Range Golden Anniversaries
Keith Line Vale – by P Woodman
Ross Martin: A Mountain Legend – by Graeme Hearl and PSK
Ski Lodges History Project
PHS Newsletter Issue 6 – Winter 2011
Kiandra: Where Australian Skiing Began
Presidents note
150 years of Skiing – Dave Woods
Kiandra Courthouse winner
World History of Skiing
50 years of Eiger Chalet
Mt Perisher double chair turns 50 – by Dave Woods
Col Ferris – Vale – by Terry Chalk (ski patroller)
Dinner report – Chalet
From an Office Girl at the Chalet in the 1950’s – by Adrienne Smith
Recovery of Johnnie Abbottsmith’s First Snow Cruiser
Revamp to display cabinet
PHS Newsletter Issue 5 – Summer 2010/11
Australian Timbers used in skis
New life for Kiandra Courthouse – by Jennifer Hewitson
Johnnie Abbotsmith: A mountain legend
Perisher Cup results
Researching club history
150 years of Alpine Skiing in Australia with old photos
New members
PHS Newsletter Issue 4 – Winter 2010
Billy Ditmar – reflections
Handmade Skis by Ted Winter
The Ullr Story – by Wendy Cross
Dinner report
Man from Snowy River Hotel 50th Anniversary
Owners and managers of The Man
Display cabinet
Dennis Plummer – Vale – by Alan Davis
History of Early Devt of Perisher –Smiggins – release of John Davis’ book
Olympic report
Hello in the snow
New members
Front Valley in the late 1950’s – photo
PHS Newsletter Issue 3 – Summer 2009/10
Shifty’s Run (Grant Turnbull)
Centenary dinner at Hotel Kosciusko
Sundeck Hotel – 50th Aniversary
Ron Finneran (disabled skiing)
Perisher Cup results
Out on the Tops – KAC Centenary book
PHS Newsletter Issue 2 – Winter 2009
Hotel Kosciusko and KAC turn 100
Ski Lodges History Project
Ron Deane – Vale
Ted Winter – Vale
Annual Dinner
Committee Members Profiled
New Members
PHS Newsletter Issue 1 – Summer 2008/9
Name and Logo
Inaugural Dinner
Bill Day returns home.
Website
Interpretive Display
Membership