Sunday, July 30, 2006

Day 416 – Long Skiing Weekend

Day 416 – 419 – 29th July - 1st August +11:00 GMT Total Miles 62919

Finished work at 5pm and jumped straight into Simon 3’s car and we drove up to National Park. We arrived at Howard’s Lodge our usual accommodation around 11pm and watched some TV before getting a good nights sleep. Got up at at around 7am and hired some ski’s and clothing and drove up to Mount Ruapehu.


Mount Ruapehu

I bought a 3 days lift and ski pass and also decided to book a lesson. The snow was really nice and it was a boiling hot day. My lesson went well and I made a huge improvement on my parallel turns.


Skiing on Mount Ruapehu

The slope closed at 4pm so we skied back to the car and drove to the local village where we met one of Simon 3’s old friends and had a beer then headed back to the lodge for the evening. I spent the evening on the internet and playing games. The next morning was up again around 7am and back to the slopes for another full days skiing at Whakapapa resort. It was quite foggy and by late afternoon the cloud was so bad you could only see a few metres in front of you which made skiing very difficult especially when you do not know the mountain to well.


Mount Edgmont


View From Mount Ruapehu

So we called it a day early afternoon and went back to the lodge to cook and relax. In the morning we checked out and drove to Turoa resort. Here we met another of Simon 3’s friends Helen, who actually works on the mountain. The runs here were very very icy all morning so Simon 3 stuck to the junior slopes and Helen and I tackled the top half of the mountain. By the afternoon we had found some fantastic runs which took you through the gully’s. It was another great fun day of skiing and by 3:15pm we had to call it a day for the long drive back to Wellington.

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