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North and South Islands are totally different in ski areas and topography. Whakapapa and North in general is having a terrible year.

Porters and Dobson : I was hearing good thing from locals in Methven regarding conditions etc.

At CP now. They réajustes their numbers. 3cm st bottom, 15cm at top. Remarks: 2 lifts are on windhold. Made the good call this morning.

6:20an update from Qtown TC 30cm Cardrona 18cm Remarks 15cm Coronet 0cm “we pick up a dusting of snow” ??? Curious about where I left. Hutt: 0cm, top lift on windhold. Dobson: closed wind Roundhill: 2cm Porters: closed wind 5cm Olympus : 5cm Lyford : 0cm

Via the West Coast is a crazy long drive from here, the only way via Mount Cook. I drove and hike at both glacier (Fox and Franz Josef) on a closed day in 2016. I was in Wanaka. As I lay in bed and can hear the crazy winds howling outside. Set the alarm early to check SR As expected, almost...

Weather is going to be happening around Hutt the next few days. Decided to drive and stay until Sept 1 in Queenstown. Snow in the forecast. Will be back here before leaving.

Skied at Hutt today. Groomers were firm (refrozen postmelt), but carveable. I got 6k vert meters. Basically skied all open runs with very little repeats. Triple shutdown for wind at 12:30. I was asked to get off at the midstation. Virgin Mile (ridge trail) was closed around 1pm. The other kept...

There is a storm moving towards the end of the week. Plan is Hutt tomorrow Wednesday, maybe Porters as high winds might be an issue at Hutt. Here is quick rundown I’ve written down (southto north). Columns: km open/total Lifts open/total Base bottom/top Vert meters Price when not ikon Region ...

Did a quick read above. Landed in Christchurch at 11pm last night. First good night sleep in a few days… it was a nice cool +2c last night in town. Driving towards Mt Hutt later today and planning to ski tomorrow. One of the ski club isn’t opening for the season. I’ve been looking at forecast...

This will affect mostly Tony and myself, it would seem helmet will be mandatory in Italy this upcoming season.

Hutt and Hotham seems to be the place to be right now. Overall big Oz areas with the exception of Mt Buller look good. Hotham has mentioned best snow in one decade. NZ Conditions vary greater between parts of the country even in the South. North island is poor. Hutt looks like the most decent...

August 8 numbers... New snow has pretty much of the South island areas listed below. Hutt is at 18cm in the last 24hrs. Top two areas for snow accumulation so far this year, Hutt (341cm) and Hotham (268cm). Base, season, lift, runs Hutt : 119-160cm, 341cm, 5/5, na Ohau : 80-90cm, 83cm?, 3/3...

I know, but -23c is funny. Remember people freaking out once we got out of the bus at Hotham in 2018 and it was a warm -11c. See below weather we had on race day back on February 4, 2023.

-23c. :P

Another thing that would drive you crazy about choices is that I would probably go Queenstown and ski again during the total solar eclipse. :P

Some destinations I’d like to travel and ski in our Winter wouldn’t necessarily be renowned for its great skiing, places like Greece, Morocco, Spain, Scotland, Lebanon, Iran, Georgia, ;)

The more time I’m away from this summer heat weather in most of North America and continental Europe, the better. The high temperature I had in Scandinavia was between 10-15c with quite a bit of rain. Couldn’t have been happier, especially when I used my Frankfort for a quick visit. It was...

July 31 morning in NZ and it's suppose to snow all day. (south to north) Remarks: 6cm Coronet: 2cm Cardrona: 2cm Treble Cone: 2cm Ohau: 1cm Hutt: 12cm Porters: 2cm

4 months of being paid to ski and enough to pay entirely for a 2-trip summer like Scandinavia/NZ plus some industry benefits, however the main reward is also trying to indoctrinate my passion into a new generation of skiers. ;)

Found? It was always there, but like I’m somewhat retired (if you don’t count my ski coaching job), I’m pretty free to travel the 8 months that I’m not coaching. As the US President said, we don’t need Canadians, so I’ve moved my travel bucks elsewhere than the US. I know that I’m far from the...