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well as you guys are winding down we have had our first winter storm, way too early but it always gets the amp on...there may be a chance of a skin later in the week as it is forecast to snow for the next three days.....

skifield opening date 20 june......

shot of mt ruapehu with its first winter coat

Definitely a time of transition. I'm about to head out on the first mountain bike ride of the year. Hook us up with some summer-time winter stoke!

Best of luck with a good season
Cheers!

yeah its getting hard to contain myself..we have hail on the roof at the moment..which means its dumping up on the mtn..checking our weather maps and we have another "polar rodent "coming next week...thats nearly two weeks of snowfall a month before it should start.....the locals say...snow in may..will not stay..snow in june is to soon...snow in july we can rely....

but with this sort of snowfall we may be in for a very big season....or thats it and it goes warm...aaargghhhhh

storm no1


the next storm...hohohoho




lots of theories with global warming but ...appparently large ice melt in antarctica is cooling the sea temps down below nz and the local weather (roaring forties) is sucking it up and dumping on nz...

nb the snow comes from the south down this end of the world...

Nice! BGnight and I were talking about you the same day you posted this. He wants to come down to NZed. I would too but I'm broke.

Looking forward to your stoke this summer....err winter.

come on over.. august is best..we have plenty of room here in ohakune and i have a few secret spots down in the south island....might give me an excuse for a road trip..

meanwhile the mtn cleared just before dark but forecast snow to 1000m tomorrow (and all week)

hot damn look at that chart!

i'm heading to aus tomorrow so now may have to pack the splitty. this week sierras, next two weeks australia, week after sierras. this traveling thing ain't too bad after all...

ho ho ho and a bottle of rum..........

this photo show you some real potential.....although glaciated the area has a few mountain huts and you need to fly in....but.....why not

just an update.....well it has been snowing nearly every day on the mtn and yesterday down to sea level in the south..it is very cold and about a month too early but at this stage most skifields in nz have a base of about 1 metre...we have a severe weather warning for our neck of the woods with 120km gusts and snow to all levels for the next two days....faaaarrrrkkkkk....the minute this pattern clears there should be some turns begging..though i suspect rather wind affected....

the old railway bridge


max getting his first run in the backyard...

nice stoke. those last pics look like some amazing terrain.

your snow producing low pressure systems also bring south swells to the cali coast so bring em on!

yeah its amazing to think the swells travel so far...they hit taihiti as well..presently we have an 8 metre open ocean swell hitiing our east coast.....only one place handles the size.....white rock...surfer mag did an article a few years ago..check it out if you can find it

the shot of the mtns is the mt cook national park..average snowfall in excess of 12 metres (they just had 2 to 3 metres of snow)

mt cook...our highest peak



lower tasman glacier


upper tasman glacier (the glacier is about 14 kms in length)





i had the luxury of a heli trip a few years ago...and now i have to get back there...

sick stuff.

Trying to get myself over a split for this season and for attack ruapehu from the whakapapa side.

wow another kiwi splitter? from ruapehu....we should hook up, i have a spare voile freeride 159 with skins poles etc.....send me a pm if your keen.....