What does the Australian ski fields and 50 Cent have in common? That’s right, they both “get money.” A report from the Australian Alpine Club has ranked the cost of day tickets from mountains around the world and Australia’s mountains are ringing the register the loudest. It’s hard to spin a story like this to your favor but Andrew Ramsey, the executive director of the Australian Ski Areas Association, has given it a go. He claims that we “shouldn’t look at single day prices but package deals where there is a very different picture.” I haven’t booked a package deal in a while but unless they have introduced secret runs, deluxe hotels and cheap lift tickets only for those on package deals – I really can’t see the picture being that different. You can check the full story in the Age here. As a side note, the article mentions the cheapest tickets as being available in Japan. A quick glance on the interweb tells me that this isn’t completely true, I know Brighton in Utah is $53 a day.