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Ruapehu 2010
Originally posted by: rozboon
Turoa base area looking good but upper mountain looking bare? Doh!
Ditto. Snowguns working though
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reine de l'hiver
Originally posted by: JudeOriginally posted by: rozboon
Turoa base area looking good but upper mountain looking bare? Doh!
rockboarding down the midway!
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GOD. LET US SEE HUT FLAT CAM PLZ :D
More snow plz!
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Summer sucks!
Friend has just come through central plateau - said there was 'heaps' of snow on side of road (ie enough for the kids to play with). Not looking like like heaps has fallen on mountain though 
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reine de l'hiver
*edited 08 Jun 2010 14:34
it was a very brief snowfall but reasonably consistent, snow down to the trees ..the reason the upper mtn is thin is all the snow was washed off the day before from the warm rain...
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you gotta get up ...to get down..
Its still early June......give it time all, plenty of weeks/months ahead!
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"If you see a Scotsman with a cricket bat....he's not off to play cricket...."
Originally posted by: McAulay
Its still early June......give it time all, plenty of weeks/months ahead!
True. Just getting itchy feet. Not fair all those South Island people getting tracks in. But we do get to ski into Nov so musn't grumble
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reine de l'hiver
I hear you.......I'd be off this weekend if I could....we have to be patient up here... too much warm/wet heading in this time of year.
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"If you see a Scotsman with a cricket bat....he's not off to play cricket...."
Would go South if I wasn't on call this weekend. Last 2 weeks in this job and one of them on 24/7 call. Grrrrrrrr.
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reine de l'hiver
4.19 pm and the snowflakes are falling!!!! NATIONAL PARK!
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"If in doubt, straighten 'em out"
Originally posted by: Jude
Would go South if I wasn't on call this weekend. Last 2 weeks in this job and one of them on 24/7 call. Grrrrrrrr.
It's a pity you can't "work from home"
I can technically but don't fancy skiing around with a laptop.
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reine de l'hiver
Originally posted by: Jude
I can technically but don't fancy skiing around with a laptop.
I've got this bit sorted. Mobile phone with remote desktop.
Phone VPNs to home, remote controls the laptop.
Laptop VPNs to work, remote controls the server.
Done deal
Now, to go ski Manganui this weekend! (Perhaps?)
snowing in kune now....brrrrr
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you gotta get up ...to get down..
Jedski...ahh haa, I know who you are!
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One good turn deserves another...
Thort you would Mr edgehi. Super stoked about outside, can't wait.
See you on the hill with my new, as you would say "way too fat for ruapehu skis".
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"If in doubt, straighten 'em out"
Going south this weekend to hopefully get some snow. I can't wait till early july which is the earliest I would be able to get up to ruapehu since I'm busy for the next 3 weeks after the weekend. Maybe the snowco forcast will be right for once 
your flying to hutt this weekend impreza?
yeah, I know the weather looks crappy but you never know. Going by snow co it should be fine 
Turoa cams looked snowed out this morning...'Papa looks same same tho'...
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"If you see a Scotsman with a cricket bat....he's not off to play cricket...."
Originally posted by: impreza50
Going south this weekend to hopefully get some snow. I can't wait till early july which is the earliest I would be able to get up to ruapehu since I'm busy for the next 3 weeks after the weekend. Maybe the snowco forcast will be right for once
it looks like gale westerlies for the weekend at hutt but mon and tue could be good.....good luck remember "early season conditions exist"
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you gotta get up ...to get down..
Yay swapped on call for next week, meaning I can head up Rua this weekend for club workparty. No skiing of course but means I can get start getting some gear up the hill. I've got everyday for 4 months ahead to ski anyway
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reine de l'hiver
Originally posted by: Jude
Yay swapped on call for next week, meaning I can head up Rua this weekend for club workparty. No skiing of course but means I can get start getting some gear up the hill. I've got everyday for 4 months ahead to ski anyway
Everyday for 4 months.........you lucky swine......BTW what club are you with?
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"If you see a Scotsman with a cricket bat....he's not off to play cricket...."
WHO can show us HUT FLAT image. or just the staircase plz.
Im sure it looks far whiter then the 17th may Picture.
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GOD. LET US SEE HUT FLAT CAM PLZ :D
Also im newbie to weather forcasting ect. haha
but should be be AMPING about this badboy ?
+12 Hours
King Hit Plz
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GOD. LET US SEE HUT FLAT CAM PLZ :D
It will either be amazing or terrible. If the freezing level is still over 2km then it will just be rain and will f*ck anything that's fallen so far.
The forecast looks marginal either way at this point. I think the upper mountain should be OK but below the top of the 'pick at Turoa might be nasty.
Yeah good luck with prediciting anything past 3 days on that Volcano.....also try this link (watch the blue line......
http://ski.com.au/weather/cola/mslp/index.html [ski.com.au]
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"If you see a Scotsman with a cricket bat....he's not off to play cricket...."
Funny to see RAL's predicition for this one...cloudy/mixed ....ha....when there's a massive ball of sh*t flying in on Thurs/Friday......gotta love those RAL forecasts eh!?
I say its a lower mountain washout...but hope not!
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"If you see a Scotsman with a cricket bat....he's not off to play cricket...."
Too early to tell. We need another depression to suck in the polar air and spit it across the NI. Sick of seeing the depressions coming from the Tasman sea.
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If you don't like my fire don't come around.
I like this site for isobar maps. Cool graphic!
http://www.marineweather.co.nz/isobars/ [marineweather.co.nz]
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Mtn is out in the sun now
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you gotta get up ...to get down..
Originally posted by: voltaren
F*KIN EPIC. GET AMPD NOW!
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GOD. LET US SEE HUT FLAT CAM PLZ :D
Wicked!!!
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Hell yeah!
Good job Voltaren.....the man on the ground speaks again.....lets hope that gets added to.
Sat Sun look good also
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"If you see a Scotsman with a cricket bat....he's not off to play cricket...."
Man, looks like Turoa got plastered and Whakapapa might have missed out for the most part.
I'm seriously umming and ahhing about a Taranaki mission this weekend!
http://www.powderhound.co.nz/ [powderhound.co.nz]
These boys seem happy about whats out there also!
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"If you see a Scotsman with a cricket bat....he's not off to play cricket...."
Originally posted by: rozboon
Man, looks like Turoa got plastered and Whakapapa might have missed out for the most part.
I'm seriously umming and ahhing about a Taranaki mission this weekend!
Thought about that early last season but I think the rain washed it away which made up my mind for me. Never been there, bit of a walk in?
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reine de l'hiver
Originally posted by: JudeOriginally posted by: rozboon
Man, looks like Turoa got plastered and Whakapapa might have missed out for the most part.
I'm seriously umming and ahhing about a Taranaki mission this weekend!
Thought about that early last season but I think the rain washed it away which made up my mind for me. Never been there, bit of a walk in?
It's not too bad. I tramped through there when doing the around-the-mountain track a few years ago. They have a goods lift too.
I think we'll have a look at the forecast on Friday night and go from there. If the freezing level drops more than it's currently forecast to then it's on
I'm seriously umming and ahhing about a Taranaki mission this weekend!
Got first tracks through fresh stuff this morning up Egmont! What a day on the t-bar, snow was top quality for June.
have you guys all checked out the whakapapa, turoa etc reports on the metservice webpage? I did for the first time this week. It extends the forecast out to 7 days rather than the 5 days for tongariro national park, plus has some other interesting graphs underneath that. You find them in the same place as the nat.park forecast, under the mountain drop box on the homepage. worth a look
ps, can someone re-position the whakapapa cams? Im sure we have all had enough of looking at the new cafe and cat shed by now, I wanna see the snow!
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I am the freedom breeder!
and I dont think you'll be wanting to go anywhere near a mountain this weekend in the north island by the looks of the forecast!
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I am the freedom breeder!
Originally posted by: demoncleaner
have you guys all checked out the whakapapa, turoa etc reports on the metservice webpage? I did for the first time this week. It extends the forecast out to 7 days rather than the 5 days for tongariro national park, plus has some other interesting graphs underneath that. You find them in the same place as the nat.park forecast, under the mountain drop box on the homepage. worth a look
ps, can someone re-position the whakapapa cams? Im sure we have all had enough of looking at the new cafe and cat shed by now, I wanna see the snow!
Yeah I second that.......why are we looking at a wet soggy building site?
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"If you see a Scotsman with a cricket bat....he's not off to play cricket...."
Originally posted by: McAulay
["If you see a Scotsman with a cricket bat....he's not off to play cricket...."
Originally posted by: atros
Hell yeah!
UFO Seen over Ruapehu
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^^^ Huh?, Don't tell seeka
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Wait For The Ricochet
The midfield CAM is looking a heap better. Just about a run down the middle of the boneyard now. With more snow forecast for Monday - Tuesday things are looking rather good!
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MOAR SNOW
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Gaper.
Originally posted by: rozboon
[I'm seriously umming and ahhing about a Taranaki mission this weekend!
Mission off? Or the temptation too much
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reine de l'hiver
Ummm, Yetti at Turoa??
Ha ha, maybe not, but it still looks funny
How did ya save the pic? I right click and only get Adobe settings
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If you don't like my fire don't come around.
I do this:
screen dump -> paste in paint -> crop -> save as jpg
Originally posted by: Jude
Yay swapped on call for next week, meaning I can head up Rua this weekend for club workparty. No skiing of course but means I can get start getting some gear up the hill. I've got everyday for 4 months ahead to ski anyway
Lucky!
Is there a job position available where you work?
Going this weekend (weather is looking shocking) but whatever, we'll drive up and take a look, will do a hike depending on how gale those gale westerlies are.
Bringing lots of alcohol though!
We did that last weekend scoobs, ended up leaving the gear behind and drinking the alcohol. In all a great weekend!
Canned the workparty, figured that no point dragging gear up in a blizzard to do something we could do off mountain and take up already assembled. No rush - will get my snow fix soon enough
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reine de l'hiver
Originally posted by: JudeOriginally posted by: rozboon
[I'm seriously umming and ahhing about a Taranaki mission this weekend!
Mission off? Or the temptation too much
Depends on 3 things:
1. Weather
2. Being able to scam some decent rock-hoppers
3. Not mysteriously going to Mt Ruapehu and hiking or something equally stupid (Mt Hutt anyone?!?!)
CCS - We'll be lurking in Turangi, not much to do their but drink!
Blizzard boarding = win
I'll be at home cutting firewood and checking the CAMS.
Post # 600
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