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Tekapo will open says operator

Contrary to rumours fuelled by television reports, Karl Burtscher has no intention of giving Tekapo away as a ski area.

Tekapo is a sunny skifield very popular with families and can operate on a minimum of snow, if necessary. But there has been precious little of that recently with a ski season of only three days in 1987 and none at all last year. But Mr Burtscher, the operator of the field, was adamant when telephoned late last week. “I put my chairs on two weeks ago. We’re going to be open.” It was just a matter of waiting until the snow came — as long as it was decent snow.

Talking about last

year’s disastrous nonseason, Mr Burtscher said there had been “no frosts, nothing.” “You can’t beat nature,” he laughed. He said that everything was ready to go and he would make an announcement about lift prices when the snow arrived. Walter Speck will again be around to run the ski school. There was no business in June anyway, Mr Burtscher said, but it was his intention to certainly be open in August for the school holidays as well as week-ends.

Tekapo, an ideal field for beginners and intermediates, has a double chairlift with a capacity of 1200 skiers per hour and two platter lifts.

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Press, 1 June 1989, Page 34

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Tekapo will open says operator Press, 1 June 1989, Page 34

Tekapo will open says operator Press, 1 June 1989, Page 34