PHS Newsletters Index

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

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

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

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

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

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

Alpine Eyre Kiosk
My Pioneer Trip to Kosciusko – Percy Pearson
Fashion Advice 1933
The First Winter Ascent of Mt Kosciusko 1897
Vale Kurt Brulisauer

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

Presidents Notes – Garry Fisher, Paul Reader

Happy Birthday KAC (110 years)

Paddy Pallin: a mountain legend

Kiandra Courthouse Mural – (Jan Glover)

Thirroul Ski club 50^th Celebration

Charlotte Pass Staff Reunion

Sixth AASHA Conference (Ben Lomond)

Three weeks in Red Hut by Peter Stitt and others

Vale Colin Myers

Life above the snowline (Nick Kennedy)

Skiing Mt Townsend (Warren Peck)

Three weeks in Red Hut (Peter Stitt)

Presidents notes: Frank Walker, Bob Strizek, Barry Wrenford Collection

Vale John & Pat Davis

AASHA Report

Where did skiing begin (Judy Thomson)

11^TH PHS Dinner and history of Johnny Abbotsmith

Frank Walker

Bob Strizek

AASHA Conference – Perisher

Dave Woods by Philip Woodman and others

Perisher Ski Patrol 50^th Anniversary

The Dares of Smiggins retire (by Chrissi Webb)

Kiandra to Kosciusko by Paul Reader

Wooden Stave Pipes – Rainbow Lake (Jan Glover)

Perisher Reunion

Jean Findlay-Gower

The Big Blizzard

Water from the Rock – Warren Peck

Geoffrey Hughes obit

Charles Kerry and the Tyrrell collection

Neville Gare

Rex Cox, Joan Gardner

The Secret Wax

Bert Gardner

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

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

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

Hotel Kosciusko – Olive Cann . With poster of lady skier

Mt Kosciuszko – 175^th Anniversary (PSK)

A.E.J. Andrews Eulogy – by Klaus Hueneke

The Exclusive Squirrel Club  – by Bill Kenyon with photos (Jan Glover)

Kandahar Ski Club 60^th Birthday

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

The Carl Walter Frankel Collection

President’s Notes

A Walk through the Old Hotel Kosciusko by Olive Lamble

Illawarra Alpine Club 50^th 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

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

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

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

150 Years of Skiing – Stamp Issue

Presidents notes

40^th 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

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

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

Billy Ditmar – reflections

Handmade Skis by Ted Winter

The Ullr Story – by Wendy Cross

Dinner report

Man from Snowy River Hotel 50^th 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

Shifty’s Run (Grant Turnbull)

Centenary dinner at Hotel Kosciusko

Sundeck Hotel – 50^th Aniversary

Ron Finneran (disabled skiing)

Perisher Cup results

Out on the Tops – KAC Centenary book

Hotel Kosciusko and KAC turn 100

Ski Lodges History Project

Ron Deane – Vale

Ted Winter – Vale

Annual Dinner

Committee Members Profiled

New Members

Name and Logo

Inaugural Dinner

Bill Day returns home.

Website

Interpretive Display

Membership