Well what's been going on since
the last update?
We
had a massive storm cycle build up about the
17th August which culminated in an almighty dumping
of snow over most of the Canterbury and Arthurs Pass
ranges.
This
meant Mt Hutt got a whopping record
180cm snowfall in 60 hours. I managed to sneak
up early on the first day open and can tell you it
was primo, blue skies, no Billys and 180 to play with.Okay
so about 150 had packed down into a nice base but
there was still 30cm fresh frost dried pow up there
and it was sweet.
They
got about another 20cm last night so it's all going
off there, particular hotspots are the S Face, and
the SW Face is just amazing....
Was
down in Wanaka and took the time to go to Cardrona
and TC. Cardrona has really nice frost dried snow
(-12C at night there - Brrr) with a good coverage
- check out the terrain park though. Treble Cone is
slightly scraped but the top T and the Double chair
are looking good.
I
know that the Queenstown ranges kinda missed the whole
big dump but managed to eke out about 40cm so they're
still tracking along.
Up
North the fields are going OK , they both managed
to get a bit from the storm but nowhere near as spectaular
as their counterparts in Canterbury.
Special
mentions go to the Arthurs Pass clubfields, Craigieburn,
Olympus and Broken River - one word - Awesome.
Just don't tell anyone that they've got such good
snow !!
Hopefully
this will keep going and we can ski into November,
now wouldn't that be choice! Until
the next time....
Colin
