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And I've got to add - the people up at Broken River are great. I was offered free home brewed microbrew beer every day I was up there, the atmosphere was definitely the most relaxed of any club field I've ever skied at, and it seems to be the south island hub of telemark skiers. The dinners...

What a coincedence... I am in Christchurch now, just did 2 days at Olympus, 1 at Craigieburn, 3 at Broken River and 1 at Mt. Hutt. The skiing on the 18th was the best I've had all week (I'm guessing it was for you as well) - I was at Broken River and was down to a t-shirt... but yesterday I...

Some pretty decent snow to be found at Cannon last Thursday & Friday, Friday being the better day with an additional 4 inches of snow or so. Stuck almost entirely to upper hardscrabble (closed Thursday but opened Friday - the best run down it was just before they opened it on Friday morning)...

I went to Blue and have to say I was very unimpressed. They groomed everything except one little patch on one of the "double blacks" (Nightmare I think), and droned on repetitively over their loudspeaker from the lodge about how they were going to pull any tickets of anyone skiing any "non...

I was under the impression that Hunter / the Catskills in general weren't getting anything spectacular out of this storm... Blue Mtn sounds pretty promising, I think as it stands that's where I'm going to try to head tomorrow morning from NYC... They seem to be calling for what looks like a...

I came across this and found it pretty interesting - it's research into the degree to which ski areas inflate their snowfall amounts, which found that there seems to be a correlation with distance from a major urban area, and that cell phone service availability impacted the degree to which...

Yeah I definitely agree it would be difficult (+16 hour time difference from EST, something like 22 hours of flying time not including the stopovers and transfers)... I am currently living in Melbourne doing a postgrad degree, so Christchurch was just a 3.5 hr flight away, and the flight was...

It was sort of luxurious to be sitting on a chairlift again after 6 days straight of rope tows, but re-learning to deal with crowds was a bit overwhelming. Overall though Mt. Hutt is a pretty fun mountain with some decent terrain (I stuck to the South Face, Towers, & Rakaia Chutes - which are...

I couldn't get a place at the lodge up on Mount Olympus (all 36 bunks were filled apparently), which was unfortunate, as everyone told me about the hot tub they have up there. And transportation was another issue - I had a really cheap 2wd rental car, and Mount Olympus has probably the most...

I headed up to Craigieburn on July 10th and stayed at the lodge the night before opening day (the 11th). I was one of two guests at the lodge the first day.... for opening day, only overnight guests, staff, club members and chill pass holders were issued lift tickets. I'd say there were maybe...

Definitely will do... yeah I'm here all winter... I'm probably going to make my way over to NZ in July. I think Treble Cone is first on the to-do list and definitely some of the club fields as well - a friend tells me there is some great backcountry terrain near Craigieburn. I was impressed...

The mountains got a bit of snow (like 35 cm) and Mt. Buller decided to open just for the weekend, before official opening in 5 weeks... only the 6 seater lift was open and the only run was Bourke St. (the bunny hill one might call it). I did hike up to the summit though and a little bit along...

Hey, I thought it looked pretty nice with all the trees covered in snow (you don't see that very often there)... I like the trashy charm of the lodge which can't have been modified in the last 3 decades. Even the audacity to put in that "Sushi bar" upstairs, which I think was done in some sort...

Conditions were a bit scratchy except for on parts of Cliff / East Side Drive / Minya Konka, it looked like they picked up maybe 4-5 inches at the top and at the base it was trace amounts. Not really crowded surprisingly. The top of K27 was actually looking tempting to poach.... Here are some...

I was out at Hunter today (the 16th), it snowed pretty continuously throughout the night and the stuff coming down was pretty decent until around 1:15-1:30 PM when ice pellets started falling.... but that didn't last too long and didn't really do much damage, and when I was heading out around 5...