Cardrona's latest halfpipe,
the 'Super Rookie' opened today. The pipe is the third
that Cardrona has opened already this season following
the International pipe
and the Johnny pipe.
This picture shows the Super
Rookie being shaped up by Kassbohrer cutting blade
yesterday. On the snow is Jon Malcolm-Smith, 3 times
NZ national snowboard champion and now head of Cardrona's
pipe team. This pipe was rebuilt over summer and has
gone from being a learners pipe to a full length ISF
halfpipe. It is huge with the shaping attachment itself
3.5metres long!
Over at Treble Cone in
the last week there's been 50cms of dry machine snow
and good progress on the terrain park. Phase 1 of
the park will be open this week and will include tabletops,
tombstones, a spine, log slides, rail slides, berms
and rollers. Over the last week several snow guns
have been dedicated to the half pipe and this is now
full of snow and ready to be shaped.
