there's ah storm a brew-in.....

 pov comin sooon....

A change in the weather pattern at last.............

Snow as low as 600m as far south as Canterbury. Northerly replaced by southerly this weekend, snow to low levels but unfortunately only along the east coast of both islands. Lyford & Hanmer Springs Ski Areas,  will benefit from of this storm..........high cold coming in from the north in the village at the moment!

more cheesey action today!

sunny not much wind. nice

more snow please

porters lacking some of the white stuff

the best skiing is in August!!

a dusting of snow up high with some rain down low...... windy!

gusty NW high cloud, 10deg. No snow............

a good day at cragie with some wind about the tops... more snow please!!

road trip photos

mt Lyford

Hanmer

early start...

road trip gone wrong.

There was a lot of snow on the road!!!

After an early start we were turned back by wind and large snow drafts at Hanmer.Not to be disheartened we turned our attention to Mt Lyford, that had 40cm of fresh lite pow. We proceed up Lyford in good hart.... however the road had NOT been graded down to the gavel = no traction . We were turned back by a avalanche which had come across the road(this was not reported in the news) trapping a family in a loaded van which had blown a chain. We were able to turn around on this narrow part of the road when a 2 wheel drive car with chains got stuck behind us. I was able to negotiate around the car and proceed down the mountain.With one extra passenger from the stuck car, who was some what shitting her pants!! We told all the cars coming up to turn around because of the carnage up the hill. We never saw a staff member on the road and no signage to notifier people of the conditions. They should have closed the road to all 2wheel drive cars at lest.. or just close the hill!! is this just greed or sheer stupidity. Mt Lyford should take note from other fields/club fields as they have been doing this for some time!!

porters?

a bit windy today at porters............5cm of fresh wind- blown............

snowing in da vill!!

more snow on the way today, with cold southerly's. 10cm possible on posters pass....yer. Monday looking good...

more snow?

opening day Craigieburn

a bit of ridge action

about to drop in to the rocks. remarkables

some nice turns in the rocks

tree skiing in nz?

 

After the storm of the decade that dropped 2m of NW snow on the Craigieburns it became possible to ski off the front face and down to the tree line at mt cheeseman. This was once in a life time!!!

putting the "SKI" back in....