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• Bonus Day at Mt Hutt

  Time has slipped by and I forgot to write anything about that unexpected day at Mt Hutt the other week. As far as I was concerned my season ended up Ohau, some 4 weeks beforehand. But unpredictable as the weather is over here, Mr Dumpy came back for an... Posted Nov 04 2007, 05:31 PM by le_sloth with | with no comments Filed under: Snowboarding, New Zealand, randomness, Winter 2007, Mt Hutt

• My Winter Season 2007

  Well, that's it all over for another Winter. Boards covered in storage wax (oh, dammit, got to redo the Rome because of that unexpected bonus day at Mt Hutt ) and boots sent back to ThirtyTwo. Yeah, there's one - my boots that have been awesome... Posted Nov 01 2007, 09:08 AM by le_sloth with | with no comments Filed under: Snowboarding, New Zealand, Winter 2007

• Oh, go on then, just one more powder day!

  Funny old season this one. I'd packed all my kit away a few weeks' ago, storage wax on the boards, all ready for summer. There's only Mount Hutt and Broken River still open here and it's been dumping at both of them the last couple of... Posted Oct 11 2007, 01:45 PM by le_sloth with | with no comments Filed under: Snowboarding, New Zealand, Winter 2007, Mt Hutt

• Last day of the season - Ohau

  Last day of the 2007 winter season at Ohau Posted Sep 10 2007, 08:14 PM by le_sloth with | with no comments Filed under: Snowboarding, New Zealand, Winter 2007, roadtrip, Ohau

• Back to Ohau: The Last Roadtrip

  Last roadtrip of the NZ winter season 2007, it had to be Ohau Posted Sep 08 2007, 08:55 PM by le_sloth with | with no comments Filed under: Snowboarding, New Zealand, Winter 2007, roadtrip, Ohau

• Mount Potts Heli Day

  No words for now, Alain is tired. I'll leave you with this for the time being : http://www.youtube.com/v/WkIOMcWVq8w http://www.youtube.com/v/WkIOMcWVq8w View original media here: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WkIOMcWVq8w I do love the way YouTube... Posted Sep 06 2007, 10:29 PM by le_sloth with | with 4 comment(s) Filed under: Snowboarding, Fancy That Productions, New Zealand, Video, top 10, Winter 2007, roadtrip

• Heli Day Tomorrow!!!

  looking forward to a heli day at Mt Potts... Posted Sep 05 2007, 10:07 PM by le_sloth with | with no comments Filed under: Snowboarding, New Zealand, Winter 2007

• Just one more powder day, please

  Spring has Sprung, but maybe there's time for just one more powder day? Posted Sep 02 2007, 12:42 PM by le_sloth with | with 1 comment(s) Filed under: Snowboarding, New Zealand, Winter 2007

• Can't drive past Ohau though

  Last day of roadtrip - another bluebird one at Ohau Posted Aug 20 2007, 10:50 PM by le_sloth with | with 1 comment(s) Filed under: Snowboarding, New Zealand, Winter 2007, roadtrip, Ohau

• Time to head back, via Cardies

  Well every good roadtrip comes to an end at some point, and today's almostthat day. Time to leave Queenstown anyway and head back...sloooowwwwlllyyy.Another layer of cloud hanging over the valleys this morning, but up atCardrona it was pretty much... Posted Aug 19 2007, 08:14 PM by le_sloth with | with no comments Filed under: Snowboarding, New Zealand, Queenstown, Winter 2007, roadtrip

• Remarks Chutes

  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.... Posted Aug 18 2007, 11:19 PM by le_sloth with | with no comments Filed under: Snowboarding, New Zealand, Queenstown, Winter 2007, roadtrip

• Coronet : That's The One

  It may get slated all the time for ropey conditions (Concrete Peak), it may get too busy some times, but Coronet Peak is definitely the one for keeping you busy all day. So much more terrain to play around on, hits everywhere and good lifts. With night... Posted Aug 17 2007, 07:14 PM by le_sloth with | with no comments Filed under: Snowboarding, New Zealand, Queenstown, Winter 2007, roadtrip

• Reasonably Remarkable

  Needed a bit of a lie in after yesterday's epic mission. Was dreaming ofOhau powder, needing more of that action! Got up to the Remarks pretty quickcos the road was in the best condition I've seen it - actually better thansome of the roads round... Posted Aug 16 2007, 07:09 PM by le_sloth with | with no comments Filed under: Snowboarding, New Zealand, Queenstown, Winter 2007, roadtrip

• Breaking Alan's Balls (and loving Ohau powder)

  Back on the road again, down to Queenstown via a day riding powder at Ohau Posted Aug 15 2007, 10:34 PM by le_sloth with | with no comments Filed under: Snowboarding, New Zealand, Queenstown, Winter 2007, roadtrip, Ohau

• Porters: I can only take so many T-Bars

  And now for somewhere different - a day riding at Porters Posted Aug 06 2007, 06:59 PM by le_sloth with | with no comments Filed under: Snowboarding, New Zealand, Winter 2007