Wednesday, July 20, 2011
Tuesday, July 19, 2011
FINALLY!
Finally was able to put my skis on and go make some turns. I headed out to mt olympus with my mate brett. it was the true New Zealand ski experience. its a club field and that exactly what it is, a club. it has members who work some volunteer hours during the summer and pau annual dues but ski there all winter long. If you didnt know where you were going you would never find it. no road signs no advertisements on how to get there. Brett runs a guide service around here which involves taking customers to these club fields and driving them up this extremly gnarly road. it takes 4wd and chains to get up there. No lifts there, only rope tows that involce a device called a nutcracker. you wear a harness and attached is this nut cracked and you have to get on the rope and clamp the nutcracker onto the rope before the first pulley , or you must bail! Great snow, awsome terrain very stoked to have finally boot up and hit the hill.
Cheers all
here is some gopro footie!
Monday, July 11, 2011
winds and snow
Methven is a sweet as little farming ski town. I was very surprised to see the pubs packed on a friday and saturday night. feels more like big sky! Been running the tune shop at big als for the weekdends for now, until matt the previous shop manager leaves on the 23rd for the U.S He has been asking me everything there is to know about the u.s. He's very curious and very excited to go, hes really into climbing so hes gonna travel around for 4 months and do some climbing. I tried to get him to come to Big Sky for next winter, but I think he's over winter. Don;t know how?
We've been getting hammered with snow and gale force winds. Some resorts have reported up to 3m( 9 ft for those who have forgotten the 3rd grade) of snow which is out of this world. But the unfortunate part is that the roads have been closed to go up to the ski fields. So still no skiing, yet. but hopefully by the end of the week we will be making some pow turns.
The house i'm living in is a pretty sweet spot. It's owned by an ex-pro snowboarder who was a in boarderX, and apperantly won quite a few events back in his day. He's a real chill guy, and just really wants to snowboard all the time. There are a handful of asians that live in the house as well, not exactly sure how many. But they're nice, theyre here to snowboard as well. But they've been coming here for 10 years or so, and still speak very very broken english. ( more like none at all)
Brett and Renee are moving down to Methven today so that will be cool to have some people to hang out with other than just Danny! not that, thats a bad thing.
Well hopefully Gale and her winds move out of town and let some roads open and get some more fields open. Hope all is well back in the states.
Cheers!
Hopefully I'll be putting some gopro footage of some gnar gnar pow pow up shortly!
We've been getting hammered with snow and gale force winds. Some resorts have reported up to 3m( 9 ft for those who have forgotten the 3rd grade) of snow which is out of this world. But the unfortunate part is that the roads have been closed to go up to the ski fields. So still no skiing, yet. but hopefully by the end of the week we will be making some pow turns.
The house i'm living in is a pretty sweet spot. It's owned by an ex-pro snowboarder who was a in boarderX, and apperantly won quite a few events back in his day. He's a real chill guy, and just really wants to snowboard all the time. There are a handful of asians that live in the house as well, not exactly sure how many. But they're nice, theyre here to snowboard as well. But they've been coming here for 10 years or so, and still speak very very broken english. ( more like none at all)
Brett and Renee are moving down to Methven today so that will be cool to have some people to hang out with other than just Danny! not that, thats a bad thing.
Well hopefully Gale and her winds move out of town and let some roads open and get some more fields open. Hope all is well back in the states.
Cheers!
Hopefully I'll be putting some gopro footage of some gnar gnar pow pow up shortly!
Sunday, July 3, 2011
methven
good day to all
been in methven for a couple of days now, its good to be closer to the mountains and amongst people who are there for the same reason. I've been working at big als and running the tune shop there. The owners son is moving to LA on the 23rd of july and I am taking his spot so its alot of just learning his methods of how he wants things done and so it will be a smooth transition once he hits the dusty trail. Took a ride up to mt hutt yesterday, it was blue bird out and just beautiful. The road going up to the field is the craziest road i have ever been on. Very narrow and windy and steep and not to mention its a dirt rd. The kiwi van only made it 18/21 km before we ran into sheets of ice on the road and I do not have chains for the van yet, so need less to say I turned around after I spun the van out! got a couple of chuckles from the people behind me. Took some amazing pics while i wan up there, you can find themon facebook right now and i will try and publish them to my blog as well. I'm qworking back down in christchurch for the next couple of days working back at rugby park. The crusaders, the team whos stadium ive been working at, win their semi final game on sat night in south africa so now they are headed over to queensland Aussie for the championship. so everyone around christchurch is absolutly stoked.
cheers!
been in methven for a couple of days now, its good to be closer to the mountains and amongst people who are there for the same reason. I've been working at big als and running the tune shop there. The owners son is moving to LA on the 23rd of july and I am taking his spot so its alot of just learning his methods of how he wants things done and so it will be a smooth transition once he hits the dusty trail. Took a ride up to mt hutt yesterday, it was blue bird out and just beautiful. The road going up to the field is the craziest road i have ever been on. Very narrow and windy and steep and not to mention its a dirt rd. The kiwi van only made it 18/21 km before we ran into sheets of ice on the road and I do not have chains for the van yet, so need less to say I turned around after I spun the van out! got a couple of chuckles from the people behind me. Took some amazing pics while i wan up there, you can find themon facebook right now and i will try and publish them to my blog as well. I'm qworking back down in christchurch for the next couple of days working back at rugby park. The crusaders, the team whos stadium ive been working at, win their semi final game on sat night in south africa so now they are headed over to queensland Aussie for the championship. so everyone around christchurch is absolutly stoked.
cheers!
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