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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 end-of-season special. Got himself all excited and...

Posted to The Life of Sloth (Weblog) by le_sloth on 11-04-2007
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 for 2 seasons now had started to come apart near...

Posted to The Life of Sloth (Weblog) by le_sloth on 10-31-2007
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 days! 45cm+ at BR and 25cm+ at Hutt. I know where...

Posted to The Life of Sloth (Weblog) by le_sloth on 10-11-2007
Last day of the season - Ohau

10 hours sleep sorted us right out, and what an awesome start to the day. Perfect bluebird, no wind, great breakfast overlooking Lake Ohau. Here we are, loving it: Snow was just softening up once we got up the mountain, damn warm already, almost a no jacket day. Took SJ up and got her cruising round...

Posted to The Life of Sloth (Weblog) by le_sloth on 09-10-2007
Back to Ohau: The Last Roadtrip

With the winter season rapidly disappearing and spring farming on in everywhere, it was time for one last roadtrip. Where better to go, than Ohau? They've had consistently good conditions, better than most places, forecast was for bluebird, no wind, and there'd been 40cm or so of fresh earlier...

Posted to The Life of Sloth (Weblog) by le_sloth on 09-08-2007
Mount Potts Heli Day

No words for now, Alain is tired. I'll leave you with this for the time being : [youtube: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WkIOMcWVq8w] I do love the way YouTube takes a perfectly good video and knackers the quality. I'll put the original up tomorrow. [ Edit: Now I've had time to think about...

Posted to The Life of Sloth (Weblog) by le_sloth on 09-06-2007
Heli Day Tomorrow!!!

Just a quick post cos I've got to get my kit together and be up at 5am. It's looking like the season has been turned on its head - now that we're 4 days into Spring, Mr Dumpy came along and left 30-60cm all over the south island. With bluebird forecast and no wind tomorrow I thought "hell...

Posted to The Life of Sloth (Weblog) by le_sloth on 09-05-2007
Just one more powder day, please

It's been a while now since my last day's riding up at Ohau . That's the story of this winter though - few and far between. Not sure how much snow's actually fallen up here in Canterbury, but I can't really remember more than about 1cm a week in the past few weeks!! Both boards are...

Posted to The Life of Sloth (Weblog) by le_sloth on 09-02-2007
Can't drive past Ohau though

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...

Posted to The Life of Sloth (Weblog) by le_sloth on 08-20-2007
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 bluebird. They've had plenty of good snowrecently...

Posted to The Life of Sloth (Weblog) by le_sloth on 08-19-2007

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