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Ruapehu 2012
Originally posted by: gurutasker
Damn... first turns of the year go to?
I think we should be surprised when first turns DON'T go to Mr V. each year
Nice pic btw Voltaren.
Nice Voltaren. Cover didn't look the best this side and couldn't be bothered driving round. Cover looks surprisingly good in the drifts.
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11am today. We ski that?
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That's why we need at least 1m of snow to ski it!
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reine de l'hiver
Mmmmm... brown gold, gotta go get my rock sledders and rip that! 
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IT Hack & Genuine NutJob
Avoid all those sharks pointing out in the marginal cover and you well and truly get first prize!
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Drama a plenty in town over the last few days.
http://www.google.com/url?q=http://www.stuff.co.nz/national/6679874/Turia-Deer-head-move-is-digusting&sa=U&ei=ZzN5T-_LDenQmAX1woDqDw&ved=0CAYQFjAB&client=internal-uds-cse&usg=AFQjCNGiyzhuGfjsGxDt7iV99ehZIzy5QA [google.com]
*edited 07 Apr 2012 06:09
Originally posted by: jedski
11am today. We ski that?
Damn I miss that mountain!! I've been in Europe so long now I forget what makes all the great features on Ruapehu. I wanna come home!!!!
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Place is just amazing at the moment. Wicked warm sunny days, good amount of tourists paying the bills, peacefull and the sunsets with or without the solid wind clouds have just been un real. A quick peak at the Mts a couple of times an hour are mandatory.
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went up for the annual off season mooch around, was very busy Easter Saturday. Table by the window at the knoll was hard to come by
Isn't the chilled atmosphere at the Knoll in Summer such a wonderful thing? compared to the rush of Winter?
Slow thread no snow around 
But this should fire it up, the name of the replacement Highflyer chairlift is the "Nga Wai Heke Chair Lift"
So what is it really going to be called? I can just imagine any international tourists pronouncing that 
maybe the heke or more likely the south basin chair.
Temps dropping, had enough of a month of sunshine.
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I'm most likely still going to call it the 'Flyer
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IT Hack & Genuine NutJob
The yeah-nga?
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One good turn deserves another...
How about the Low flyer 
Smelled like winter today...
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IT Hack & Genuine NutJob
The Wai-not?
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One good turn deserves another...
Resource consent for the temporary Knoll cafe had been withdrawn due to objections from local iwi. It can be used to house plant etc but not open to the public. Be prepared for a more crowded Knoll cafe when events/school groups on.
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reine de l'hiver
Apparently Nga Wai Heke means cascading waters of the waterfall nearby.
So maybe Cascade chair or Waterfall chair??
Damn. That made a real difference when the school groups are in. was also a nice quieter alternative on busy days.
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Originally posted by: Jude
Resource consent for the temporary Knoll cafe had been withdrawn due to objections from local iwi.
Thats not actually correct it was not just the local iwi that objected. Same as the impression given it was the iwi that objected to the car event last month. Ruapehu politics is district wide and part of a standoff going on between local and adjacent councils and a goverment department and community concerns with the iwi being part of it.
Resource consent was granted for a temporary cafe and RAL wanted to extend that beyond the original agreement. Sets a precedant not just on the mountain but in the district. Yes a lot of politics going on and thats just part of it.
Originally posted by: Freshie
Apparently Nga Wai Heke means cascading waters of the waterfall nearby.
So maybe Cascade chair or Waterfall chair??
Already have a waterfall chair on the mountain but cascade chair sounds more appropriate although I guess part of the deal was to be more politically and culturally correct with the maori name.
Originally posted by: Freshie
Apparently Nga Wai Heke means cascading waters of the waterfall nearby.
So maybe Cascade chair or Waterfall chair??
The literal translation is more or less "The water falling" - As you said, there's already a Waterfall chair on Ruapehu. I have a sneaky feeling we're going to nickname it the Yeah-Nga :P
NgĀ Wai Heke
Meaning
This name refers to the cascading waters that descend in close proximity to this chairlift
i reckon cascades sounds good.
^^I like that
So the rocks are going to be cooled down a bit more by the expected cold front in the next week.
Mountain was looking a bit bare until now.
The nightly routine starts: Right i'm off to bed - 2 hours later of video browsing with sick beats and you cant sleep with the thoughts flowing of magic lines going to be skied in 2 months deciding which beasty rockered plank to ride for the day. Feels like i'm dreamin.
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^its still to warm to think about snow
yesterday i was surfing wearing a springsuit and it was still too warm.
Tomorrow
30 April
Issued at: 7:09am Sunday 29 Apr 2012
Early rain followed by a few showers. Snow lowering to 1200 metres. Westerly gales, severe about high ground.
Free air freezing Level: Lowering to 1600 metres.
Maximum 4°
Overnight -1°
Tuesday
01 May
Issued at: 1:18pm Saturday 28 Apr 2012
Snow showers at first, clearing and becoming fine. Southwest gales easing at low levels, gradually tending southerly.
Free air freezing Level: Lowering to 1200 metres.
Maximum 3°
Overnight -2°
Wednesday
02 May
Issued at: 1:18pm Saturday 28 Apr 2012
Mostly fine. South or southwest winds, easing further.
Free air freezing Level: Rising to 1800 metres.
We'll ask that again tomorrow
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Hey all. Landed a job at Turoa, first time working at Ruapehu!! Mega pleased.
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*edited 29 Apr 2012 10:17
-1 aint that cold - probably wont amount to much.
actually i take that back..quite chilly out in Aucks today
^^ welcome Chris
Nice avatar pic CCS. Still warm but days are definitely feeling wintery. My hands froze today out sanding.
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Chris congrats, what job have you got? Great to have the insider info on here. My first question of the season (every season) are they going to open the express on the first day if theres plenty of snow before hand? So far in my experience it is 'your dreamin' wait until closer to holidays but hope that this year is different.
7 weeks and counting.
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Winter is always coming!
Originally posted by: Freshie
^its still to warm to think about snow
yesterday i was surfing wearing a springsuit and it was still too warm.
Might still be warm up north but the water has cooled right down here in Wellington, boot and glove temperature. Even castlepoint is pretty cold. Still feels far to warm for snow though.
Thanks Jedski, been trying out a new look for 2012, think good ol Mt doom might be it
Definitely chilled off tonight in Auck's. The house didn't really warm up all day. Even the cat is covering his nose and hogging the wheat bag.
*edited 30 Apr 2012 19:44
It's really starting to chill considerably here in palmy. SD - just the basics, in the rental department. But that will give me a couple of hours each day (working days) hitting the slopes...off day's..probably still up there! Yeah hoping to get some good weather news for you guys here. Doubt that the express will be open before the school holidays, but fingers crossed. I remember the season before last, all the first days were high flyer only, which was pretty bad (lots of ice and rocks) but I couldn't resist.
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I remember whaka being pretty good early season 2010 with most of the east side going by late June, but I think Turoa was quite limited.
Unfortunately 2010 turned to custard because of rain....taken Aug 2010 
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reine de l'hiver
*edited 01 May 2012 12:30
*edited 01 May 2012 12:29
Hey all!
Love this thread - i followed it closely in 2010 (so Jude's pic, above, is bringing back sad memories of that season).
Looking forward to a mint season this year though!
Jude, that pretty much sums up 2010 haha.
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Yea thanks Jude for reminding us! 
Times ticking, Workshop being set up, drop those poor planks off on your way through.
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Freezing level down to 1000m tomorrow.. lovely chill in the air in Wellington today. Read an article on stuff about it continuing to be a warm May as it was in April, lets prove them wrong!
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IT Hack & Genuine NutJob
Snow in May will not stay, Snow in June still to soon.
Who was getting excited about a unusual dump of snow in February and look how the mountain looked a few days ago.
A season like last year would be good! Three dumps that set up a season! Although the July School Holidays would have been killed if they had not been two weeks later!
Good weather until the infamous August Dump and then another saving dump in September and lots of sunny days and very few closed days!
Crowd free because of the Rugby World cup (except that horror weekend in late August.
Jude thats disgusting to show those horrible photos of 2010 
Originally posted by: jedski
Yea thanks Jude for reminding us!
Thanks for the offer of a free ski tune up Jedski
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reine de l'hiver
After the July dump last year....better?
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reine de l'hiver
^^ Not long now, when is your planned approach? Post some more 'most shocking' photos to cheer Gavspad up.
@ Gavs - We all got excited about the snow as it makes things look fresh yet all know she would melt away. We all are stoked on this dusting yet it will be gone by Friday. Yet we still all are raging for the next metservice report forecasting snow. Cheer up man, snows a coming...and I still am a believing I will get a stingy hike in by May 31...just scraped and sorted out the super rockhoppers engine running and waiting! 
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@jedski - oh contray I am more than looking forward to slipping and sliding and mugging the crowds
June 16th can not come fast enough the next 6 weeks is Holiday Time and once winters breath has laid its white blanket thickly on the hillside then the work hard play hard will be go go go and let it snow
Just had a walk down memory lane and was reminded of a night watching the Dance Exponents at the hot lava in the 80s.
Is the hot lava still going (bear in mind I left NZ in 92 if that sounds like a stupid question)
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yes it was open most weekends (DJ/band/Rugby games)last year and the year before.
Originally posted by: jedskistill not familiar jed?
^^ Not long now, when is your planned approach? Post some more 'most shocking' photos to cheer Gavspad up.
@ Gavs - We all got excited about the snow as it makes things look fresh yet all know she would melt away. We all are stoked on this dusting yet it will be gone by Friday. Yet we still all are raging for the next metservice report forecasting snow. Cheer up man, snows a coming...and I still am a believing I will get a stingy hike in by May 31...just scraped and sorted out the super rockhoppers engine running and waiting!
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the older i get the better i was
Metservice have released their projections for the next 3 months. They are... muddled
http://www.stuff.co.nz/national/6844882/Warming-news-in-winter-forecast [stuff.co.nz]
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IT Hack & Genuine NutJob
Sounds like a load of bull nuts.
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first may snow storm shaping up end of next week...tick tock....
^^Been watching that!
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Where are you watching that... METVUW?
I'm liking the look of the system that's just about to hit the south, pity it's not a bit colder but if they continue it's lookin good
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