Skiing at Cardrona
Best skiing of the week!Click on any image to see a bigger version.
Just to prove I was there. The snowHeads hat makes an appearance at the top of the Whitestar Express lift |
Base area |
Close-up of base area |
Lovely snow :-) |
Temperatures around -5C with 4cm fresh snow overnight: perfect! |
I got to this off-piste bit by mistake. Trails are hardly marked at all in NZ |
Down the bottom is the "easy way back" from the Captain's Basin |
Whitestar Express lift at the bottom |
See those fresh tracks up there? One of those is mine ;-) Up the top there is where the previous few shots were taken |
Ah. This is looking a bit steep. Oh well, the snow's been perfect up to now. Here goes... |
WRONG! Ice and rocks! This is looking back up the slop after taking a good 15 minutes to come down it. Didn't fall once, though. This picture doesn't really capture how steep, icy and rock-strewn the slope was |
Close-up of how little snow there was on this section. Good job I was on hire skis! That was the only dodgy bit in an otherwise excellent morning's skiing |
1pm - Low cloud coming in fast |
About to shroud the mountain in fog |
One last scenery shot... and then get off the mountain while I still can! |