Stayed the night in Wanaka, then up to Treble Cone this morning. Snow report was obviously wrong, as it had said 25-35cm snow 3 days ago. Hmm, surely you mean 3 weeks ago?! Still, conditions up there were supposed to be the best of the lot at the moment. Looked pretty good on first lift, and not so bad from the Saddle chair (yes, where everyone takes their horse). Got back down to the car to get the new board out and farmed it back up the top.
Well the chutes (not the Motatapu ones - not doing them on my own or without backcountry kit after seeing avalanche footage from them) were ok, patches of windswept powder here and there, but otherwise in need of a lot more neige. Was just about to head down to base for lunch when was told that the bottom lift was broken, so if I wanted to keep riding, best to stay up top. Lucky I did as that was broken for a good couple of hours.
Pretty much exhausted all the riding up on the top part; only about 30 people up there in the same situation; finally they got it fixed, so I rode down for a pie. Then it broke again. Couldn't be arsed with sitting around forever so gave up around 3pm, picking up a free half day pass for next time. Thing is, there won't be a next time unless there's a powder day when I'm back down here again. TC is good, but (a) A rip off at $99 a day (I get $20 off with my season pass tho), (b) a bloody long way to drive and (c) pretty dull without powder.
Dunno where to go 2moro as now in Queenstown, but no new snow again. It's pretty much a case of where's got the best snowmaking, which is Coronet I think. Be good to cruise round there anyway - been a while.
Right, I'm gonna grab a pizza, head back to Jimmy's and get the fire started. Farm on.
