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It’s not over till Dumpy says so!

[I realised I never posted this little story from the arse-end of Winter 2008, so it is…] It’s the end of October, I’d just about packed everything away until next season and was convincing myself to get the bike out. But then I saw the weather for the long weekend – a cold sou’wester making its way...

Posted to The Life of Sloth (Weblog) by le_sloth on 05-24-2009
The Melting Hutt

"I'm melting, I'm melting"...said Mount Hutt. Yep, Spring's here, the nor-wester has been battering the mountains, stripping snow off bit by bit. Still, that means warm temps, blue skies and slushy riding - sweet! Went up to Hutt today for all of the above, had another wicked day...

Posted to The Life of Sloth (Weblog) by le_sloth on 09-25-2008
Best day of the season 2008

"Am I awake? Eh? What's going on? 5:45am?" thought a very confused and barely awake Sloth. "Holy crap, powder day!!" as he jumped out of bed and straight onto the snow reports. "Come on, come on...is it open?" Finally we got the green light at 6:30 and after a few more...

Posted to The Life of Sloth (Weblog) by le_sloth on 09-11-2008
The only time I wished the mountain was closed

Woke up this morning, feeling fine, had something special on my mi-nd...Hang on, where's this going? Yesterday was neige, lots of it, but a very closed mountain. Today was much of the same, but with an extra 40cm on top. The usual "On Hold" trick on the snow report. I was up and ready to...

Posted to The Life of Sloth (Weblog) by le_sloth on 09-05-2008
The Grey Dog

Change the wind direction from a Southerly to a Nor-Wester at this time of year and things change, really change . From reading the report, I knew it was going to be a bit heavy and wet, but I needed to get up there, you know how it is?! Turn your bloody lights on! The weather from ChCh to the mountains...

Posted to The Life of Sloth (Weblog) by le_sloth on 08-26-2008
And another bluebird powder day at Hutt

Been a while since I wrote now, but I think I can piece a couple of days together from the photos. something was weird with my board that day - there's me unable to find anything wrong. it was blue, there was plenty pow. we like that. Hmm, I can't really remember much actually. Myself and Farran...

Posted to The Life of Sloth (Weblog) by le_sloth on 08-17-2008
Epic day at Mt Hutt

"This is the one, this is the day we've all been waiting for", so said the famous Yeti back in 2006. Well I used those very words myself today at Mt Hutt. Hadn't been planning on going up today - better conditions were supposed to be on Thursday, but checked it all out, made a quick...

Posted to The Life of Sloth (Weblog) by le_sloth on 08-06-2008
So much snow at Hutt

Just got back from riding powder all day at Mt Hutt - was loads better than expected . Last week's storm has dumped so much snow up there it's ridiculous! Gonna set it up perfectly for Spring riding (yeh, now how come that's only 4 weeks away already?!). The base is the highest it's ever...

Posted to The Life of Sloth (Weblog) by le_sloth on 08-04-2008
Mt Hutt buried in powder!

Ok, so gutted I've still not got up there today - nothing open again. My kit's been ready to go for 3 days now . Still, looking at these photos from Mt Hutt today, I can see why they've not been able to open - erm, where's the base building disappeared to?!

Posted to The Life of Sloth (Weblog) by le_sloth on 07-25-2008
Bluebird for Mt Hutt - Winter 2008 Day 1

Me @ Mount Hutt - Day 1 We'd watched the storm come in over the weekend, closing the mountains and dumping 50cm of fresh (allegedly). Monday was all set to be an awesome start to my season. Has always seemed a bit ridiculous driving up there myself midweek, so this season I'm using Snow Pool...

Posted to The Life of Sloth (Weblog) by le_sloth on 07-05-2008

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