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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
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
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. Yet Remarks was only saying 2cm. Ok then.Nowhere else...

Posted to The Life of Sloth (Weblog) by le_sloth on 08-18-2007
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 riding on too, was hard to tell myself that's...

Posted to The Life of Sloth (Weblog) by le_sloth on 08-17-2007
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 Queenstown! No new snow but they'd had plenty...

Posted to The Life of Sloth (Weblog) by le_sloth on 08-16-2007
Breaking Alan's Balls (and loving Ohau powder)

This was a long day, A very long day. Alan was trying his best to get the better of me, but I wasn't letting him in. Drive Christchurch to Ohau Up at 5:30am, in Rosie and on the road. Compulsory Maccas stop on the long dull boring road to Ashburton and beyond. Once you turn off there though and get...

Posted to The Life of Sloth (Weblog) by le_sloth on 08-15-2007
Ohau I love to ride

And that's exactly what their car stickers say, so I bought two. Right then, so here I am in Wanaka with Alain on my back trying to take control of the situation. 6 beers in the fridge with my name on them so I can't be long, or belong. Steinlager Pure. It's new, it's fresh, it's...

Posted to The Life of Sloth (Weblog) by le_sloth on 07-23-2007

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