FALLS Creek and Mt Hotham alpine resorts awoke to a white dusting of their first snowfalls on Sunday morning, ahead of the official 2025 snow season opening on June 7.

Hotham marketing manager Alex Pankiw said the temperature dropped to almost minus five degrees, with the snowmaking team making the most of every snowmaking window, thanks to a multi-year snowmaking pipeline project started this summer.

“It’s really exciting and we can’t wait for the snow season to kick into gear,” he said.

At Falls Creek, overnight temperatures of minus four degrees brought snow flurries and saw the snow guns fire up for most of the day, including the new automated TechnoAlpin snow guns on Drovers Dream.

“There’s no better sight to wake up to than a fresh dusting across our slopes and it’s just the beginning,” said Betony Pitcher, Falls Creek Ski Lifts’ marketing manager.

"The countdown to opening weekend on 7 June is officially on.”