Skiers gather on single patch of snow as they desperately cling to winter

If this nightmare ski season has proven anything, it’s that Australian skiers and snowboarders know how to make the best of a bad thing. And this season was one of the worst in decades.

Not only that, but the stop-start season has proven Australians are desperate to hit the snow however and wherever they can find it – even if it is a tiny patch at the bottom of a grassy slope.

That is exactly what one group of very keen skiers did at Perisher this week, making for bizarre scenes that were shared on social media as “proof Australians will ski on anything”.

The group was spotted on a Snow Cam in a “conga line” on the last surviving patch of snow on a run at the resort’s Guthega peak on Tuesday morning.

They were there for at least an hour, which provided some welcome comic relief to snow lovers let down by the stop-start season.

A woman later commented on the picture saying the group was her tenth grade students taking an Advanced Outdoor Education class, and they found the pictures just as funny as everyone else.

“Yep, we hiked from Guthega to get to that!” she commented below the picture.

“Very proud of my students, they made the most of the rubbish conditions and never complained. They all just cracked up when I showed them that (picture).”

The teacher was applauded for giving the kids a “fun” experience that “they’ll still talk about … in 30 years”; while others poked fun at the “bluebird conditions”.