Love it so much up at Ohau, there was no way I was gonna drive straight back to ChCh - time to stop there overnight again. Got up the mountain Monday morning - another bluebird day 
. Now apparently they'd had 390 people up there on Sunday - busiest day of the season. Only 40 or so today, most of whom were riding for a couple of hours before going to a wedding down by the lake - what a day (and location!) for that! Yeh, anyway, so despite there being all those people up on the weekend, I was pretty stoked to hike up the ridge and still find some nice powder to ride! Hit the kicker on first run of day, bit of a mistake as was icy and landed on my ass. Started softening up as soon as the sun did its thing and I was loving it. Did a Jamroll special up and over the top of the quarter pipe, managed to hit the barrel thing somehow, 180s off everything in sight, so damn close to landing a 3, just a bit more rotation. Even time for some massive euro-carve action (lib still lets me push it even with no edges)
Struggled to get myself off the mountain and back in the car, but wanted to get back to see SJ before she flew to Auckland. Great drive back, stunning scenery again, then it gets dull as anything as soon as you get back to SH1 (1.5 hours of straight, featureless road 
)
Road trip done. Sweet.
