It looks like the New Zealand NONSTOPers have had an epic second week, so much so that it took them until mid way through week 3 before they got round to writing a blog about it. You can’t blame them though when you take a look at the conditions they’ve had in the video below. No blogs on a powder day!
So on to week 2 we go. Apologies for the delay but the fun and frivolity of life on the hill drew my attention away from the thing I was meant to be doing. … Read more
It’s exciting times, as our Ski Instructor Course in Porters and the club fields region of New Zealand has just got underway. Alice and Sophia are the first volunteers to write a course diary. Take it away ladies…
The first week was a week of many firsts. We all met for the first time on Sunday, having woken Alice up from a 40 hour slumber, and got ready for the first day of skiing on Monday. … Read more
“Sunshine Village’s Strawberry Chair”… Doesn’t that sound like a fairy-tail place of joy and happiness? In reality though it’s a 35 year old, painfully slow chair lift that provides access to Sunshine’s Green and Blue runs. This summer though, the Strawberry Chair will be passing on to the great bean-stalk in the sky, as Sunshine have just secured a deal to replace it with a fancy new high-speed four-man.
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I left Fernie yesterday and after a four hour drive I arrived in Red Mountain late last night. It’s always great to be in Rossland and especially today as I was lucky enough to be able to join some of our 11-week instructor course participants on a day of backcountry touring. … Read more
Last week we spent Thursday night sleeping on the mountain… well more like “in” the mountain than “on”. We headed up the mountain at 3pm and spent the next two and a half hours digging our homes for the night. … Read more
So on to week 2 we go. Apologies for the delay but the fun and frivolity of life on the hill drew my attention away from the thing I was meant to be doing. … Read more
Pete+ | July 28th, 2010
