Guthega

Guthega from the summit (July 2011)

State :	Australia Australia
State :	New South Wales
Founded :	1951

Coordinates :	36 ° 21 ′ S , 148 ° 26 ′ E Coordinates: 36 ° 21 ′ S , 148 ° 26 ′ E-36.348984888889 148.43187988889 1640
Height :	1640 m

Time zone :

AEST (UTC + 10)

LGA :

Snowy River Shire

Guthega

Guthega is a winter sports resort in the southeast of the Australian state of New South Wales . It is located in the southern part of Kosciuszko National Park on the upper reaches of the Snowy River and is part of the Snowy Mountains . In the village there are hotels, private quarters, a restaurant with bar and various facilities for skiing and other leisure activities in the great outdoors.

Guthega is also home to the Guthega Power Station , a hydroelectric power station that is fed by the Guthega Pondage and is part of the Snowy Mountains System .

history

The Aboriginesstamm the Ngarigo moved for more than 20,000 years between today's Canberra , the Monaroebene and the Snowy Mountains back and forth. The settlement pressure of the European immigrants led to increased hostilities between the individual Aboriginal tribes, which probably took place in the mountainous areas around the Snowy River and its tributaries. Diseases introduced by the settlers, such as chickenpox , syphilis , influenza , measles, and tuberculosis , wiped out the local population, and by 1850 the survivors had all withdrawn from their ancestral lands and given up their traditional lifestyles. They lived with the Europeans in the Cooma area .

Herbert Schlink , Eric Fisher, William Gordon, William Hughes and John Laidley first crossed the main ridge of the Snowy Mountains from Kiandra to the Kosciuszko Hotel in 1927 . In 1960 the pass between Guthega and Geehi was named after Herbert Schlink Schlink Pass . The Schlink Pass Road from Guthega Road on the Snowy River to the Geehi Reservoir of the Geehi River is about 30 kilometers long and the Schlink Hut mountain hut is also located on it. -36.289166666667 148.38638888889

In 1949 Guthega was selected as the location for a hydroelectric power plant and a reservoir for the Snowy Mountains system. Road construction for Guthega Power Station began in 1951 and work on the dam in 1952. The contract for the power plant was awarded to a Norwegian construction company, so Guthega was soon nicknamed 'Little Norway', as most Norwegians lived there outside of Norway at that time. The power plant supplied electricity for the first time in 1955.

Recreational skiing began in Guthega in the late 1950s. The first slope with a rope lift was created in 1957 by SMA Ski Club on the eastern slope of Mount Tate . The YMCA Ski Club (today: Brindabella Ski Club ) built two shelters and a rope lift in 1960 and began operating a ski school with accommodation. The rope lift of the SMA Ski Club burned down in 1965 and was not rebuilt. However, in the same year, the first surface lift was built on the western slope of Mount Blue Calf . In 1966 Walter Spanring and his wife Hannelore (née Eberstaller) , still the most important entrepreneurs in Guthega, built the Guthega Hotel (today: Guthega Inn ). In 1974 Peter Aynsley designed the lodge of the Australian Ski Club next to the Guthega Hotel and in 1975, with financial help from smaller ski clubs in the area, the expansion of the winter sports facilities on the western flank of Mount Blue Calf began. In 1980 new investors got involved and by 1983 parking spaces for cars, a chair lift, a ski center and other improvements were added. Guthega's new winter sports facilities were presented in an international marketing campaign in 1983. It comprised:

View from Mount Tate on Guthega

Range Rover Australian Freestyle Championships
Peter Stuyvesant International Pro-Am Dual Slalom
Choice AU- $ 10,000 Girls of the Snow from Australian Playboy
Concert by the band Cold Chisel at The Lake Jindabyne Hotel for the big Playboy finale
Ovaltine ski races for amateurs and ski tourists

In 1991 Guthega was taken over by the Alpine Australia Group , the operator of the Blue Cow Resort. In 1992, this led to the merger of the operations of both ski areas, so that Guthega can since then be reached via the ski tube and the slopes of the Blue Cow and Link Management Unit . Guthega is now part of Perisher Blue .

Guthega is now integrated into the Perisher Blue Ski Resort's ski maps and a chair lift and two drag lifts connect the two ski areas if required. In addition to alpine skiing, Guthega also offers opportunities for cross-country skiing and snowboarders , as well as ice climbers who want to go to Blue Lake . In summer the area is used by day trippers and tourists in the Kosciuszko National Park.

Web links

Individual evidence

↑ Chapter 2 - The Contact Period Aboriginal and European Encounter in the Canberra Region
^ South Eastern Highlands - Regional History Environment & Heritage. New South Wales Government
^ Schlink, Herbert Henry on the University of Sydney website
^ Paula Bray: Photo of the Day - Marking the Snowy Mountains Scheme's 60th Anniversary Powerhouse Museum. Sydney (October 17, 2009)
^ Snowy Hydro - The Snowy Mountains Scheme Australian Screen
↑ Welcome to Guthega Inn , accessed on July 3, 2018.
^ Guthega Ski Resort Christiana Capital Group
^ Guthega 1983 Christiana Capital Group

[1] Chapter 2 - The Contact Period Aboriginal and European Encounter in the Canberra Region

[2] South Eastern Highlands - Regional History Environment & Heritage. New South Wales Government

[3] Schlink, Herbert Henry on the University of Sydney website

[4] Paula Bray: Photo of the Day - Marking the Snowy Mountains Scheme's 60th Anniversary Powerhouse Museum. Sydney (October 17, 2009)

[5] Snowy Hydro - The Snowy Mountains Scheme Australian Screen

[6] Welcome to Guthega Inn , accessed on July 3, 2018.

[7] Guthega Ski Resort Christiana Capital Group

[8] Guthega 1983 Christiana Capital Group