I am a big fan of Monday’s. Easily my favourite day of the week but the last couple of Tuesday’s haven’t been too bad. Today was Ben Lomond a 1400m accent straight up from town. Another gorgeous day although once on the ridge line the wind was much much stronger than we expected. It was a 5hr round trip and enjoying a rum now I can tell you. … Continue reading Tuesday’s are growing on me
Tuesdays activity was walking the Greenstone Track (well part of it anyways). 5hr loop including lunch so not that far and no altitude gained but this is perhaps the prettiest walk I have done thus far. The walk started along the Greenstone River, then climbed a little bit to a mountain lake where we had lunch in the sun and then it looped back out … Continue reading Tuesdays are tough too
I’ve been back in Q-Town for just over a week now and its good to be back. After the 35hr journey from Denver to Queenstown I was picked up at the airport by AJ and we went directly to the course. From the course it was back to Malcome’s until around 1pm where I discovered I was an OP rum bottle lighter. This pace has kept up all … Continue reading Back in Q-Town
After a pretty lame day last year, cat skiing wasn’t a top priority. But, with 8 inches forecast, some new terrain which is open and being the last weekend of the season Al and I thought we’d give it another shot. AND IT WAS AWESOME!!!! My faith in cat skiing is back. Second run of the day was this bowl below – little bit of … Continue reading Last day of Cat Skiing
After a 5yr hiatus I am a single man again and working on getting my mojo back. I’ve been cleaning out some photos of the season and here are some party pics which I forgot to post earlier. We’ll start with New Years – there was a bottle of ’86 Don Perignon from Al and Jarisse’s cellar to bring in the New Year. 1986 is … Continue reading Party Time
These are pics taken from the day when we were scoping a hike off the backside (see the next post). A-Basin is one of my favourite places on the planet; it is laid back, the skiing is the steepest in Summit County, there are no slope Nazi’s, every 2nd person up there can kick my arse skiing, the views up there are the closest you … Continue reading Andy and Moc @ The Basin
For those of you not in the know…. A-Basin is a resort 5 minutes up the road from Keystone which is on the lift ticket. A-Basin is a bit higher than Keystone and opened in October and should be open for a couple of very slushy days in late May – perhaps even June (as it was last year). The 300 days a year is possible … Continue reading A-Basin Recon
Last day for Andy and Moc and along with Al we headed over to Loveland Ski Area to check it out. Pretty crappy day but the snow was amazing!!! Season is winding down and there was nobody there at all. Loveland Ski area goes on both sides of the Interstate. You can ski over it (there is a big tunnel for the road) or you … Continue reading Biggest Gap Jump in History
Not quite what you were thinking Wayne – the Virgin is Moc and he hasn’t skiied any pow before. Well hasn’t skiied any pow since his conversion to skiing. We had 10 inches of Spring Storm snow (a little heavy) overnight and along with Al made first tracks this morning. The 4 of us were the first through the gate at South Bowl. And here is … Continue reading Breaking in a Virgin
2 Runs 2hrs 20min of hiking 1,800m decent….. Max elevation 3,750m Fresh pow and not standing in lift lines on a busy Sunday…… You know how the saying goes. So today was a Sunday and since there were more than 5 people in line by 10:30am Andy and I decided to take a Sunday afternoon stroll into Independence and Bergman Bowls. Here is the route for … Continue reading Sunday afternoon stroll
Anyone keen to step up to this? Right click and then Save Target As – it is just over 70meg. WhistlerBooter.avi Continue reading Whistler Booter
Yes winter has finally begun. We have had some solid pow days earlier in the season, and we did have a solid base from October snow falls BUT we haven’t had the same kind of pow days that we want. So the El Nino water temps off the Sth American coast have come back down to normal and the weather people say that we can expect more ‘wintery … Continue reading Winter has arrived… finally.
