Spring Sabatical

The southern winter has come to an end and I’m now on a Spring Sabatical. A trip to the West Coast with the boys kicked spring off…..  The whitebaiting crew…. Mush, Rocky and Vinchenzo. I’m diagnosing myself with A.D.D. – how can you concentrate when you see snow and the ocean? Someone suggested…  “I reckon we can drive down the pier.”  I volunteered to take the foto. I … Continue reading Spring Sabatical

Pre Season

This is my 2nd attemp at posting these photos…..  the winter has just started (well it rained today so it isn’t all roses and powder flakes). I’m busy as hell with work and I haven’t played half as much golf as I have wanted and the snow just hasn’t delivered this year.  I can’t complain though as I’m living in a Mosad safe house, the Chateau … Continue reading Pre Season

Tramping

The winter is just about to begin (now that school holidays is finally over) and the troops start arriving today. Here are some photos I’ve taken since I got to Queenstown nearly 2 months ago now. Malcome and I shot up the Routeburn as we heard the waterfall had frozen….  That is the valley we walked up. And that is our ride back to the … Continue reading Tramping

Big Saturday

Big Saturday doesn’t quite roll off the tongue as well as Big Wednesday but it pretty accurately describes what we got up to yesterday. 8:30am – departure from Hidden River to go hiking up Independence Bowl. 11am – Independence trip thwarted by anal ski partol so we skied an ever knarlier run. Red ripping up the highest ‘Window’.  One of the best pics of the winter. … Continue reading Big Saturday

T & B

Tamatha and Bungy are here – so far it has been pretty full on.  A couple of huge nights to start off the trip – I think this was about 4am. Saturday crowds required a backcountry mission…… Sometimes the tow in doesn’t go quite as smoothly. Today was the first day I got to ski some steep stuff back here – here is the line. … Continue reading T & B