NEWS
Christ is Risen ! – Easter message from Graham Morrison.
Southern Cross offers the opportunity to hear, share and experience the great news of our Saviour, the Lord Jesus Christ. We welcome bookings from both members and non-members, including small groups. We provide husband/wife married couple, family, and shared male & shared female accommodation in 8 guest bedrooms. We have short devotions at breakfast and Bible discussions most evenings.
Staying at Southern Cross is a unique experience. We are a comfortable, affordable and friendly Christian lodge, right on the snow at Smiggin Holes (part of the Perisher snow resort) in Kosciuszko National Park. During much of the snow season you can ski/board in & out, maximising your time on‑snow.
Request Bookings through till January 2026
Our catered 2025 snow season is from at least Friday 06 June till Tuesday 07 October 2025.
The June LWE free Perisher Peak Music Festival was on again, as well as the Saturday 07 June Blessing of the snow church service. There is the regular Sunday noon BBQ & 12:30pm church service at the Perisher Alpine Church till end of the 2025 winter/spring snow season. PBS Participant bookings for up to 27 June inclusive do not affect member priority and member rate booking entitlements for 28 June onwards
Catered accommodation may sometimes be available at other times – ASK.
Self-catered accommodation is available at other times to approved small groups.
You can now submit booking request(s) for right through till January 2026.
Our BOOKING REQUEST FORM is our preferred method for you to submit your Southern Cross booking request(s). For more details click : Booking Procedures and Booking Conditions, vacancies,
www.southerncrossalpinelodge.au/rates-members, www.southerncrossalpinelodge.au/rates-nonmembers and www.southerncrossalpinelodge.au/rates-friends.
For details about Southern Cross Alpine Lodge membership, including in
our Preferential Booking System (PBS), see www.southerncrossalpinelodge.au/membership.
Southern Cross provides the following information & analysis for our members and guests, but does NOT warrant its accuracy and does NOT recommend any particular retail or rental outlet. You need to do your own careful research, including comparing various lift ticket etc options and prices.
2025 Day & Multi-Day Lift Tickets, Hire and Lessons etc
Follow the various links from www.perisher.com.au/tickets-passes/perisher-shop to access details including prices of Perisher day & multi‑day lift tickets, hire & lessons. 3 day & longer multi‑day passes include lift access from 3.00pm the day before the first full day. Purchasing 7 or more days in advance of the first full day appears to maximise your advance purchase discount, but please do your own research. Epic pass discounts on hire & lessons is applied during the last steps in the on‑line purchasing process. Age 70+ $249 (excluding season ski tube which is $219 extra) season passes remain available throughout the snow season.
2025 Epic Australia Season Passes and 4 Day Any Day Passes are no longer available for sale.
For something different how about leaving a day free for a Day Trip to Charlotte Pass
www.charlottepass.com.au/discover/day-tripper are available again, BUT NEEDED TO BE BOOKED WELL AHEAD – 2025 prices are from $164 adult; $109 child; $130 senior; $20 Infant.
THERE ARE ALSO TUESDAY AND THURSDAY SPECIALS.
Rhythm Smiggins (across the car park from the Smiggins Hotel) give 10% discount for on‑line pre‑purchased ski/ board/ clothing rentals . Also see www.rhythmsnowsports.com.au/pages/rhythm-membership which gives members 10% discount on rental and retail purchases - otherwise, walk‑in discounts no longer apply. And there are many retailers in Sydney etc, Cooma, Berridale, Jindabyne and probably where you live, including Anaconda Stores and Aldi has a snow gear sale per www.aldi.com.au/special-buys/2025-05-17/ski-snow-gear. Aldi Cooma often has snow gear throughout the season, but may not have all items and all sizes.
Above are Southern Cross images in recent years; below is Perisher Front Valley on 5 October 2021 – click each photo to expand
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ANNUAL GENERAL MEETING was held on Saturday 24 May 2025
The last Southern Cross Alpine Lodge Annual General Meeting was on Saturday 24 May 2025. Following this meeting, Southern Cross directors are Ann Collins, Stewart Vella, Chris Hinchliffe, Jen Morrison and Brian Gaetjens. After over 42 years’ service, Graham Morrison retired from being a Director and Chair of Southern Cross, but remains an active member. The following were the documents for that meeting :
www.southerncrossalpinelodge.com.au/images/uploads/SCAL-AGM-Agenda-20250524.pdf
www.southerncrossalpinelodge.com.au/images/uploads/SCAL-AGM-Proxy-Form-20250524.pdf
www.southerncrossalpinelodge.com.au/images/uploads/SCAL-AGM-Minutes-20240525.pdf
www.southerncrossalpinelodge.com.au/images/uploads/SCAL-Directors-Report-2024.pdf
www.southerncrossalpinelodge.com.au/images/uploads/SCAL-Financial-Report-2024.pdf
www.southerncrossalpinelodge.com.au/images/uploads/SCAL-AGM-GrahamMorrisonReflections-20250524.pdf
Clicking the above links should open each document in a separate tab in your Internet browser, and we suggest you then save each document on your computer or tablet, as they are generally not as easy to read and navigate on phones. Once saved to your computer, you can then open them with your PDF Reader which is generally more flexible than reading them within your browser. Note that, although within those documents there are various cross-links, these cross-links generally open in a single (rather than separate) browser tab.
Please contact us if you have any questions about our 2025 AGM or the above AGM material.
2025 Annual Membership Fee was $125 if paid by Wednesday 28 February 2025
Southern Cross Alpine Lodge members’ 2025 annual membership fees were due 1 January 2025,
and are $185 for existing members, discounted to $125 if paid by Wednesday 28 February 2025.
There is also a husband/wife couple discount – where a married couple are both members, then each
of their 2025 membership fees is $92.50, discounted to $62.50 each if both were paid by 28 February 2025.
If you attend a working wee, then your membership fee is waived the subsequent year.
The first year membership fee for new members in 2025 is $740 (or $370 each for husband/wife couples).
Pay your membership fee in conjunction with a summer or autumn catered booking and receive a $67 credit
towards that booking. Please contact us if you have any questions about membership fees.
Our last Working Bee was from Friday 25 April 2025
Thank you to everyone who achieved so much during our last working bee from Friday 25 April 2025. If you would like to volunteer for a future working bees, please contact us. Working bees are lots of fun, help us contain our costs and so also our accommodation fees. Southern Cross members who attend a working bee will also have their next year’s membership fee waived.
2019 lifts operated until Sunday 13 October 2019
The above pictures were taken 07 October 2019.
The above pictures were taken 07 October 2018.
e above Front Valley and Mid-Station pictures were taken 10 June 2015.
Perisher 2017 & 2018 & 2019 Snow Seasons Were All Extended
Perisher has invested heavily in snowmaking, resulting in Perisher lifts almost always opening by the June LWE or even earlier.
Great September snow snow allowed Perisher to extend 2017/8/9 lift operations until Sundays 8 October 2017, 7 October 2018
& 13 October 2019, with Southern Cross also extending its fully catered & no minimum numbers self-catered accommodation.
Snow cover was not as good in October 2020, but Perisher was the last Asutralian resort to close – on Monday 5 October.
Thank you to ALL our chefs, hosts, members and other guests who help make Southern Cross ministry such a success every year.