Awakino is a tiny little club field 3hrs north of Queenstown. For the last 2 years AJ and I have been talking about doing a mission up there. Last weekend we finally shook the sand out of our v-jay-jays and got up there. It has been a tough year snow wise but the planets aligned, the opportunity presented itself and we had a vehicle that … Continue reading Road Trip – Awakino
Justin was in town for a week or so of ‘man skiing’. We had a little bit of snow and some gorgeous days up high, above the clouds and away from the crowds. The rest of ‘Justins’ crew really couldn’t understand why anyone would go to the Remarkables…… the more people who don’t understand, the better. There were a few a few tumbles caught on film … Continue reading Justin
This was a mission through Skippers Canyon to the base of Mt Aurum (something that will no doubt be climbed/skied in the future). I had read that there was a 4WD track in there…. so I figured I’d use the dirt bike for the first 25kms, then walk the last hour into the hut. Here are some pics of the easy part of the ride. … Continue reading Bullendale Mission
There hasn’t been as many guests this winter… relatively speaking of course. Moc and Steve were here before I arrived, Kronbush was here over New Years, Little Spoon has been here most of the winter, Cole and Gabriella were here in late Jan, Fi and Josh in Feb, Doug and his gaggle of girls are being entertained at the Chateau Grindlay most weeks and Shazza … Continue reading Shazzered
Not sure about his post – kinda boring so I’ll either comment it later or delete it. Darn Aussie birds molesting me….. Continue reading From Snow to Sand
Doug invited Little Spoon and I along for a few days of ‘Man Skiing’ up in Montana. Since I nearly moved to Bozeman a while back I was uber keen to finally ski the area. We had enuf equipment for half of Africa to ski…. downhill gear, skinning gear, couple of sleds, all the ropes required for towing 3 people per sled, kite ski and … Continue reading Montana… Mmmmmm
I’ve been in North America for every Super Bowl since I was 21. My birthday is the week before Super Bowl, just happens that I’ve been in the snow for a few birthdays. 9 years ago I celebrated my 21st in Whistler, with Fi, at a pub called ‘Tommy Africas’ and…. that is all I’m willing to share about the matter. I did learn that … Continue reading Darn 30 is old
What started as a great season of snowfall, continues as a great season. All in all we had 60 inches of snow last week. On Tuesday we had 28 inches at Breck!!! Little Spoon bought a new video camera and Chris V loaned us his GoPro so we took them out and came back with some fun footage – a monkey could make skiing look … Continue reading Way too much pow!!!
The crazy (holiday) time is over and being a Monday everyone should be back at work. So it was time to get a crew together and head out to Vail Pass to test all the repairs made to Poly the snowmobile. Here is Brett and Doug on his new machine… (I think he was sick of Allison telling him that mine was bigger). Lunch time … Continue reading Skiing against snowmobiles
December has been pretty crazy. The awesome spring that we had in New Zealand filled my days with golf, mountain biking and boating which didn’t help with all the chores I have at the end of a season. On my way east I passed through California, Nevada, Arizona, Utah and finally made it to Colorado. San Fran was fantastic as usual with Cole and Gabriella. … Continue reading Crazy month…
This time of year the weather is intermittent at best – normally it is windy enough to blow Christ off his cross. Thankfully, this spring has been gorgeous. So I saw the forecast and I lined up a super early start. I was up at 6:30 – I didn’t know there was a second 6:30 on the clock. After a run and a swim I … Continue reading Gorgeous Days
Now that the mountain is closed I get to clean out the toy closet and knock off some ‘spring time’ missions. I’ve been taking the mountain bike out a bit and I’m trying to spend as much time down at 7 Mile as I can. The local mountain bike club have been building this over the last 5 years or so. Darn pedestrians….. actually I … Continue reading Spring Collection
