After a few ales, gin and Ferg last night with Miss Gutkin and Sam, gettingup super-early was not gonna happen. Although still managed to get out thedoor by 9ish I think. Snow reports were a bit odd, cos as far as I knew ithad been snowing all night. Yet Remarks was only saying 2cm. Ok then.Nowhere else had more than 5cm and couldn't be arsed with a long drive, soRemarks it was.Wish I hadn't given a lift to annoying yo-boy yank, but then you never know.Got up there, popped out above the layer of cloud into bluebird!! Sweet. Anddefinitely a lot more than 2cm - prob up to 15cm in places.Only did 1 small run thru some untracked pow, then straight up Shadow tohike up to the chutes. Patrol reckoned Elevator was the best conditions andthey weren't wrong. Seems everyone either drops straight down the first onethey come to, or keeps going right to the end, leaving me with deep, whitegoodness to farm out. The whole lot round this side of the mountain wasgreat, love the run-out across the frozen lake, nice few hits, then dropdown thru a gully back onto the piste. Follow that with natural pipe I'dnever noticed before and it's all good. Take all that lot, repeat 4 times and that was my day. Alan got the betterof me. Hiking up there 4 times is a good enough work-out itself. Love it,Remarks back on the list.Coronet fell down again though as went to go up there for some night riding,only to be told "no discount" on an evening pass. No way I was paying morefor the evening than for the day, funk that, so straight back down againbeeeatch.Now it's time to go and get all the shit together again cos back on the roadfrom tomorrow. Gonna ride Cardies (got a free pass), then prob up to Ohauagain, stay the night, ride Monday morning then it's back to ChCh. 6 days'riding in a row makes Alain a tired alien.
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