Guthega, New South Wales
Guthega is a ski resort in the southeast of the Australian state of New South Wales. It is located in the southern part of the Kosciuszko National Park in the upper reaches of the Snowy River and belongs to the area of the Snowy Mountains. In the village there are hotels, private accommodation, a restaurant with bar and facilities for skiing and other recreational activities in the wild.
In Guthega the Guthega Power Station, a hydroelectric power plant, which is fed by the Guthega Pondage and is part of the Snowy Mountains Hydro - system lies.
History
The Aboriginesstamm the Ngarigo drew over 20,000 years between today's Canberra, the Monaroebene and the Snowy Mountains back and forth. Settlement pressure of European immigrants led to increased hostilities between the individual Aboriginesstämmen which were probably held in the mountainous areas around the Snowy River and its tributaries. Through the settlers imported diseases such as chicken pox, syphilis, influenza, measles, and tuberculosis exterminated the indigenous population and in 1850 the survivors had all withdrawn from their ancestral lands and gave up their traditional lifestyle. They lived together with the Europeans in the area around Cooma.
Herbert Henry Schlink, Eric Fisher, William Gordon, W. Hughes and John Laidley crossed 1927 for the first time the main ridge of the Snowy Mountains of Kiandra by Kosciusko.
1949 Guthega selected a location for a hydroelectric power plant and a reservoir for the Snowy Mountains Hydro - system. The road construction work for the Guthega Power Station began in 1951 and the work on the dam in 1952. The contract for the power plant was awarded to a Norwegian construction company, so Guthega soon received the nickname, Little Norway ', since there then most Norwegians outside of Norway lived. The power plant supplied electricity first time in 1955.
The recreational skiing began in Guthega end of the 1950s. The first slope with rope tow was built in 1957 by SMA Ski Club on the eastern slope of Mount Tate. The YMCA Ski Club (now the Brindabella Ski Club ) built in 1960 two huts and a rope tow and began the operation of a ski school with accommodation. The Seilllift the SMA Ski Club burned down in 1965 and was not rebuilt. But in the same year the first ski lift was built on the western slope of Mount Blue Calf. 1966 built Walter clamping ring and his wife Hannelore (born Eberstaller ) until today the most important entrepreneurs in Guthega, the Guthega Hotel (now Guthega Alpine Hotel ). 1974 Peter Aynsley designed the Lodge of the Australian Ski Club next to the hotel and Guthega started in 1975 with the financial support of smaller ski clubs in the area of development of winter sports facilities on the western flank of Mount Blue Calf. 1980 dedicated new investors and it came to 1983 parking spaces for cars, a chairlift, a ski center and further improvements to it. Guthe gas new winter sports facilities were introduced in 1983 in an international marketing campaign. It included:
- Range Rover Australian Freestyle Championships
- Peter Stuyvesant International Pro-Am Dual Slalom
- AU $ 10 000 Girls of the Snow- election of the Australian Playboy
- Concert of the band Cold Chisel in ' The Lake Jindabyne Hotel '' in large Playboy Finale
- Ovaltine ski races for amateurs and ski tourers
Guthega 1991, was acquired by the Alpine Australia Group, the operator of the Blue Cow resort. This led in 1992 to merge the operations of both ski resorts, so you can reach Guthega since about the Skitube and the slopes of the Blue Cow and Link Management Unit. Guthega now part of Perisher Blue.
Guthega is now integrated into the Skimaps of Perisher Blue Ski Resort and a chairlift and two ski lifts connect if necessary the two ski areas. Guthega offers the alpine skiing also enjoy cross country skiing and snowboarding, as well as for ice climbers who want to Blue Lake. In summer the area trippers and tourists used in Kosciuszko National Park.