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 … Continue reading
Darn 30 is old
Way too much pow!!!
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 … Continue reading
Skiing against snowmobiles
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 … Continue reading
Crazy month…
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 … Continue reading
Gorgeous Days
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 … Continue reading
Spring Collection
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 … Continue reading
Skating Crew
Dave the Sailor and Shazza are old friends. We’ve skated the bus tunnels of Brissy (if I did that now they’d think I was a terrorist), skiing in Buller with absolutely no snow and a crazy week in Arrowtown a … Continue reading
Early season turns
Some early season skiing before the troops start arriving. Here is as pic looking out the front/backyard… snow down to lake level. Not a bad 1st week for the remarks – still lots and lots and lots of snakes in … Continue reading
Finally out of the office!!!
I’ve been trying to get down for an exploration mission for weeks but 3 weeks of perma frost made an early start cold and slick on the drive to the trail head. In the end I just had to sack … Continue reading
5 rounds in 5 days
I’ve had a couple of days on the hill and the Remarks opens up this weekend. Still needs a bit of snow and I can’t get my new toy started so nothing too exciting to post. Big weekend with Tony … Continue reading
Walkabout with the Landlords
Winter has arrived in Queenstown…. As a result the subi has started growing white hair……. That is a ‘frostball’ not a ‘snowball’. Bugger the shade and its permafrost…. I wanted to get some sunshine and I asked some mates if they … Continue reading
Glacier Hunting
A couple of days ago I wanted to head down to the Routeburn and get some GPS points for a winter mission I have been planning. However, the ‘loosers’ from the ‘Biggest Looser’ TV show were on the track the day … Continue reading