San Francisco Bay Area Curling Club year-round as well as various educational activities such as Learn-to-Curl sessions. In September 2017 the SFBACC announced they had signed a lease agreement for a building in Oakland with the intention of building California's only dedicated curling center. The facility will have five curling sheets and is expected to open in the fall of 2018. The SFBACC has hosted the Golden Gate Bonspiel annually each spring during Memorial Day weekend since 2008. The tournament is held at Solar4America Ice at Fremont. The club teaches Learn-to-Curl events throughout the year to expose new people to the sport. During the Winter Olympic
Winter sport in Australia is subject to at least occasional winter snows. Mount Ossa is the highest point on the island at 1614m but Tasmania has eight mountains exceeding 1500m and 28 above 1,220m. Also notable is the Central Plateau, at an elevation of around 900m. The capital city of Hobart is built at the base of Mount Wellington, which at 1270m is snow-capped in winter. Skiing began in Australia at the goldrush town of Kiandra, New South Wales around 1861. The Kiandra snow shoe club founded around that time (now called the "Kiandra Pioneer Ski Club (1861)") remains the world's first identifiable and