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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
Sorry Gary, a New Fancy That Production!

Dear Gary We truly are very sorry for our behaviour last night. We should have realised that you were in fact dressed for bed and had an early start on your skis ahead. Sorry Gary Allan Davis and Arran Dayris p.s. here it is - oh yes, the long-awaited (and long) Fancy That Production, recently found...

Posted to The Life of Sloth (Weblog) by le_sloth on 04-01-2009
Mt Cheeseman - it's not made of cheese

New Zealand weather is so unpredictable, it really can't make it's mind up. I'm wearing shorts and t-shirt one day, a cold sou'wester comes in overnight and drops a nice 15cm of dry winter snow on the mountains. Scrapped my plans of building 2 new veggie gardens (see this month's...

Posted to The Life of Sloth (Weblog) by le_sloth on 09-28-2008
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
Ohau great it was to be back again

A winter season just wouldn't be complete without a roadtrip down to Ohau. With Alan Davis at the wheel, we set off after work on Friday, compulsory Maccas stop then into the darkness. So dark actually that we missed the turn for the mountains. Finally rocked up at Ohau lodge just before 10pm. No...

Posted to The Life of Sloth (Weblog) by le_sloth on 09-15-2008
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
Big Mama, T-Bars and cake

With only a sprinkling of new snow overnight, it was hard to pick out the best place to go from the snow reports. But seeing as it's 2-for-1 at Porters on a Monday, making it only $37.50 each, it was worth putting up with the t-bars for the day. Must've been damn cold overnight in Methven as...

Posted to The Life of Sloth (Weblog) by le_sloth on 08-18-2008
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

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