The rising cost of Australian ski resorts: ‘It was like throwing $100 bills out the window as we drove up the mountain’ | Victoria

Mount Hotham was like a second home to Dan Burke. In the 1980s, his family stayed in the communal lodges, back when the lifts were run by the Schumann family, who lived in Harrietville at the mountain’s base and knew regulars by name. He’d sneak into nightclubs with the teenagers who worked…