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…. downhil... Read more
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 c... Read more
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 the... Read more
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... Read more
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 Califo... Read more
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 –... Read more
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... Read more
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 couple of years back whi... Read more
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 the grass (rocks) but u... Read more
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 up. The drive took twice as long as normal and I... Read more
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 (old multisport teammate from the Peak... Read more
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 sunshi... Read more