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• Mother Nature can be so cruel

  October 8th 2006: All the South Island resorts finally close after an epic season. 2pm, only a couple of hours of lifts left and what happens? It starts to snow. Big time. Sarah-Jaye was finishing up at work at the Remarkables and took forever to get... Posted Oct 10 2006, 11:39 AM by le_sloth with | with 2 comment(s) Filed under: Snowboarding, New Zealand, Winter 2006

• No, I'm not quite finished yet

  ...said Mr Dumpy as he laid down another 25cm of dry fresh pow-pow on the mountains here on the last day of the season. Yeh, so what's that all about then? Just got back from our leaving drinks, been raining proper hard all afternoon down here, but... Posted Oct 09 2006, 12:09 AM by le_sloth with | with no comments Filed under: Snowboarding, New Zealand, Winter 2006

• Winter 2006 Season - Day Forty-Eight (That's All Folks!)

  Never say "last run" or "last day" until it's been done! Been like that all season - just bcos that's always when you're gonna break yourself. Well, I held off from uttering those words even though I knew this was gonna... Posted Sep 27 2006, 06:16 PM by le_sloth with | with 2 comment(s) Filed under: Snowboarding, New Zealand, Winter 2006

• Winter 2006 Season - Day Forty-Seven (Dreams can come true!)

  There I was, deep in sleep, listening to the radio, "...Treble Cone 30cm, Remarkables 15cm, Cardrona 15cm..." Woah there! Sloth wakes up to find this isn't a dream - it's all there, all good! Open the curtains, "holy crap!!"... Posted Sep 22 2006, 07:52 PM by le_sloth with | with 2 comment(s) Filed under: Snowboarding, New Zealand, Winter 2006

• Winter 2006 Season - Day Forty-Six (Would you like ice with that?)

  It started well anyway. Report said light wind, bluebird . Out the window (my favourite weather forecast), it was just the same. Beauty. Down tools and head for Cardies. Somehow managed to get from here to board on snow in under an hour. Got my Cardrona... Posted Sep 18 2006, 04:20 PM by le_sloth with | with no comments Filed under: Snowboarding, New Zealand, Winter 2006

• Winter 2006 Season - Day Forty-Five (One Pieces are damn cold!)

  Mardi Gras up at Coronet - celebrating a great season up there. Well, it was a great season anyway - not good up there now at all! Rail jam going on when I got up there - first one to ride the S-rail end to end won a season pass for next year. Not this... Posted Sep 17 2006, 06:14 PM by le_sloth with | with no comments Filed under: Snowboarding, Fancy That Productions, New Zealand, Winter 2006

• Winter 2006 Season - Day Forty-Four (I Love Cardies!!)

  Cardies? What, a nice woolen number with zip down the front? Awesome! On the other hand, you could try a day's riding at Cardrona . So, so good up there, so much so we've bought club membership, so if we get ourselves over there another couple... Posted Sep 14 2006, 08:20 PM by le_sloth with | with no comments Filed under: Snowboarding, New Zealand, Winter 2006

• Winter 2006 Season - Day Forty-Three (More bruising please)

  Still riding pretty well up @ Remarks. I wasn't sposed to be riding today, but it was looking pretty sunny, Sarah and Jimmy were going up so thought yeh I might as well. Damn that road's getting rough now! Was the usual firm at first, quickly... Posted Sep 11 2006, 04:11 PM by le_sloth with | with no comments Filed under: Snowboarding, New Zealand, Winter 2006

• Winter 2006 Season - Day Forty-One (The wrong day)

  This was very much the wrong day and even though when I was up there I said that'll be my last one, I'm not having that as my last day of the season! Today was crap because: Yesterday was perfect blue skies, very warm and all-round perfect. I... Posted Sep 08 2006, 02:54 PM by le_sloth with | with 1 comment(s) Filed under: Snowboarding, New Zealand, Winter 2006

• Winter 2006 Season - Day Forty (Yay! 40 days)

  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... Posted Sep 03 2006, 03:21 PM by le_sloth with | with no comments Filed under: Snowboarding, New Zealand, Winter 2006

• Winter 2006 Season - Day Thirty-Nine (Slush Wars)

  Hang about, what's happened here then? Sure it was only 3 days ago I was up at Coronet and the neige was still lovely (and plenty of it). 3 days of warm weather and very strong winds have really taken their toll on the mountain. Was 20 degrees in... Posted Sep 01 2006, 04:25 PM by le_sloth with | with no comments Filed under: Snowboarding, New Zealand, Winter 2006

• Winter 2006 Season - Day Thirty-Eight (Windy Coro)

  Went up to Coronet for first time in a couple of weeks - all very tracked out but still so much snow up there - everything's nicely covered so plenty hits all over the place. Loads of park stuff for me to avoid too . Plan was to ride switch all afternoon... Posted Aug 28 2006, 06:38 PM by le_sloth with | with no comments Filed under: Snowboarding, New Zealand, Winter 2006

• Winter 2006 Season - Day Thirty-Seven (Back to Treble Cone)

  Another Early Start and a Selection of Pies Myself, Sarah and Gareth had another early start today for our roadtrip to Treble Cone (TC). After yesterday's near miss with the crash barrier, decided to go the long way round (118km to Wanaka instead... Posted Aug 24 2006, 08:08 PM by le_sloth with | with no comments Filed under: Snowboarding, New Zealand, Winter 2006

• Winter 2006 Season - Day Thirty-Six (Cardrona - Perfect!)

  Back on the road Sloth, Sarah-Jaye, Canadian Sarah and Louise did a roadtrip to Cardrona today...nice early start leaving at 7:30, so got ourselves there almost for first lift. Crown Range road pretty icy on the way and locked up going down the valley... Posted Aug 23 2006, 08:16 PM by le_sloth with | with no comments Filed under: Snowboarding, New Zealand, Winter 2006

• Winter 2006 Season - Day Thirty-Five (Heli trips rock!)

  Well, well, well. What a day! No, really what a day!!! As many of you already know by text, that is without doubt one of the coolest things you can ever do! (Sorry Mr Pope, but it beats your breakfast at the greasy spoon!) Here's the story... The... Posted Aug 22 2006, 07:43 PM by le_sloth with | with 4 comment(s) Filed under: Snowboarding, New Zealand, top 10, Winter 2006