FALLS Creek and Mt Hotham are blanketed in snow, with skiers and snowboarders hoping it's a sign of things to come this winter.

The cold front bringing the wintry blast delivered the first falls to the alpine areas last Thursday, with heavier dumps over the weekend.

Sub–zero temperatures on Monday morning saw up to 20cms of snow at Falls Creek.

Not all of it was from Mother Nature, with the Falls Creek Alpine Resort's snowmakers have been busy firing up the snow guns since Thursday.

Falls Creek senior mountain operations manager, John Palmer, said there was nothing more exciting to signal the start of a season than firing up the snowmaking system for the first time of the year.

"We will be making snow at every opportunity leading into the start of the snow season on Saturday, June 10," he said.