Snowboarding at Mt Hutt with Lou and Arthur.

This is the View from half way up the access road.

This is the first time i have been up on the snow this season. Seeing i have a seasons pass to Mt Hutt this is a bad thing. In the last week Hutt got about 25cm of snow. Which is the first snow they have had in over a month.
The conditions on the Mountain were great. Not alot of snow but not too much wind, sunny and clear. There were a pile of rocks showing through so we had to stick to the groomed areas (although a few of those had rocks showing too). New Zealand Ski areas are kinda famous for the access roads that everyone has to drive up to the reach the mountain top fields. The roads are tighter than the Filthies when Jerry is looking for beer money. More twisted and dirtier than the girl of Duncan's dreams and uglier than my left collar bone (which is pretty damn ugly). The most excitement we had of the day was the drive home down the road. Traffic was backed way up behind some buses and camper vans (RVs for our Nth American cousins) no one was looking interested in passing the heavy vehicles. I performed a very safe but interesting over taking manouver getting past about 10 of the cars who did not seem to want to pass. I got behind the camper and bus that were causing the block. I waited until we had a clear veiw down the road and started to pass them, then the camper decided to pass the bus. They pulled out with no turn signal (unlike me) and we came within 2-5 cms of being side swiped and about 20cm from me being pushed over the dropoff below the road.




If you look at the horizon above my head you can see some hills. They are the old volcanic hills behind Christchurch. They are maybe 80km away. How is that for clear skys.











This is the view Nth of Hutt. It is looking towards where i climbed the small Mtn last week.














Me from behind on the snow:-)














Me far away












Up close and Ugly














Me and Arthur "chillin" waiting for Lou to catch up to us.