Still 10 days short of my target and if we don't get any more snow I'll graciously accept defeat, but 40 days of riding is great news all the same. Loved it all, bluebird, greybird, spring slush, powder, the lot. Maybe not Coro when it's been concrete tho!
Yeh, so yesterday was a complete right-off - pretty much every mountain on the South Island was closed cos of high winds, rain and power problems. Coro seems to have lost about 40cm of snow yesterday alone! Pas bon. Great that I got up today to bluebird tho, so downed tools at work and farmed on up to Remarks.
SJ was already up there and had warned me it wasn't looking too pretty...damn right! Barely any snow left along the road now, Homeward run is just mud/rocks/grass, but bizarrely the shuttle bus was still running there. Got stuck in a long line of slow-moving traffic on the way up and it honestly felt like we were in a funeral procession, mourning the end of the season!
As for conditions, it was all doing the Spring thing - firm at first (and I mean completely frozen, hard as steel), then once the golden hour kicked off it goes soft as butter. They've had (or at least have been trying to have) the NZ snowboard nationals up there the last few days, so had a few goes on the icy boardercross course, at long last landed a couple of 180s off one of the kickers
. Other than that just generally farmed around jumping everything in sight.
Got Sarah-Jaye out for a few runs at lunch which she rode well, then got myself back on home where I'm at now.
Time for booze I believe...l8rs
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