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 before and... Read more
There are 8 weeks until opening day, so I wanna knock off 8 missions. I’ll ski opening day, then I don’t want to ski until August when the snow is actually good – hahahahaha. First mission was the Brissy to Gladstone (new pics... Read more
A couple of weeks ago I was invited to crew on ‘Akimbo’, a 30 foot trimaran, in the Brissy to Gladstone Yacht Race (308 nautical miles). The last time I was on a proper boat was 8yrs ago and my sailing experience was never up to thi... Read more
I haven’t published a ‘Doris’s of the Winter’ blog post in years…. Too many, post and potential, Doris’s read this blog….. So I’m going with an ‘End of the Winter’ post of all the folks... Read more
I had heard of some ice racing and today I finally got it organised. How it works…. take your 4WD down to the local frozen lake, don’t go near the ice fishermen and race mano-el-mano. Eric took his Pathfinder and I took Black Betty... Read more
After a fantastic couple of weeks with with the crazy Canberrians (Fi and Josh) I had an entire day to myself (and Little Spoon of course). We spent our day off with Jarisse and the abused horses of Colorado…. After the day off with the h... Read more
Fi and Josh flew out yesterday and I don’t think I’ve ever seen some non-slope-eyed folks take soooo many photos. They were a hoot. In the old days I was the one off to bed early at Whistler and Perisher while Fi partied, this time... Read more
The pre ’11pm bed time’ thing continues at the Chateau Grindlay now that Fi and Josh are here. The troops are rising early and today was my first non-skiing day in 3 weeks (I awoke at 6am to check the Steamboat report and made the ca... Read more
January was a big one, I had 27 of 31 days on the snow which has to be a PB. Feb kicked off yesterday with a change over of guests, Chris and Lisa flew out and Fi and Josh flew in. Instead of being a day off we had a couple of hrs at Keystone [... Read more
Today (Saturday) was as busy as it has been all season (there are 5,000 military folks in town for the weekend – you’d never guess we had 2 wars in progress). The last 3yrs I have volunteered as a sit-ski pilot but this year I... Read more
Chris and Lisa are in town and it is time to payback all that Karma from my Aussie trip. ‘Post Schnapps’ up in the back country. Another pic from that day. You can watch all the shenanigans in the movie I compliled – click her... Read more
Cole is always a great host in San Fran and it was great to have him out for a week in CO. Here are some of the best pics I have of Cole skiing. If he was a knuckle dragger, there would be paragraphs of abuse, instead I’ll just get this b... Read more