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canterbury people where did you ski today?
haha gold. we saw TC as busy as it gets IE: 5min liftlines for saddle. they couldnt fit another car up there. we got 2 fresh lines in saddle and freshies from summit amongst other things. anyone who complains about TC getting tracked and liftlines needs to spend some time at hutt. ive had bigger liftlines there midweek with no pow this year.
PS-impreza when saddles tracked mototapu calls
yeah looked great out there but it was closed 
Had 4 days of powder out of 6 possible and only only one really busy day and that was event day at cardies so not really surprising. Next year I'm gona check out canty properly.
Visited Roundhill for the first time ever yesterday. Headed straight for the rop tow. There was some windblown southwesterly storm snow above a breakable crust. The windblown powder was skiable all the way down by picking the right line and actually really good quality in the morning. Despite being a busy Saturday there was hardly anyone riding the tow and untracked lines were available all day. As the afternoon progressed, solar heating turned the storm snow into sticky dense crap and then it was time to move onto the old breakable crust which turned to perfect buttery corn snow in the spring sun. All in all a very pleasant experience. I'll be back for sure.
The new terrain isn't actually that steep, or particularly varied but just the sheer length of the run makes it something different worth visiting for. 
Originally posted by: stinky
I was up at TC yesterday as well, had an awesome day too
Ohau last Sunday was nice, the weather cleared a bit in the afternoon, and lots of freshies to be had.
could of had a smokin reunion day
truth be told after realsing the variability and amount of crud on offer i switched back to the gnu.
I rate TC so much im seriously tempted to buy a seasons pass and do every 2nd weekend. U can argue CV and temple have better terrain but both require far more effort and CV is far from uncrowded these days. with mototapu TC must be close to 700ha anyways and TC cat is a legend
Originally posted by: brighton_pumpsOriginally posted by: stinky
I was up at TC yesterday as well, had an awesome day too
Ohau last Sunday was nice, the weather cleared a bit in the afternoon, and lots of freshies to be had.
could of had a smokin reunion day
truth be told after realsing the variability and amount of crud on offer i switched back to the gnu.
I rate TC so much im seriously tempted to buy a seasons pass and do every 2nd weekend. U can argue CV and temple have better terrain but both require far more effort and CV is far from uncrowded these days. with mototapu TC must be close to 700ha anyways and TC cat is a legend
Bro I would reserve judgement until you have been to Temple and CV.
TC is a great mountain but I'll take epic uncrowded terrain with a bit of hard work over chairlifts and crowds any day.
yeah tc is a great mountain but it is still a commercial field and fast chairs means freshies get tracked real fast and on a powder day it can get pretty busy. 30 mins for the saddle on a 50cm powder day last year, sure nothing compared to carides in the school holidays but it still can get a little busy.
I'd take CV over TC any day of the week, in any conditions.
I thought TC and CV were in Otago not Canterbury 
Mt Hutt Rocks
Craigieburn Valley is in Canterbury. TC is not but to be fair, this thread is Canterbury People where did you ski today, not where in Canterbury did you ski today so comments in TC are fair enough I guess - if you're from Canterbury.
p.s mt hutt isn't all its cracked up to be.
LMAO you been up since the Earthquake 
No I haven't. Has there been damage? I see they were open on Saturday, although it looks like the earthquake pissed on their "1 year to the RWC" media circus bonfire. I thought they'd close for the day to sulk.
Originally posted by: downsouthahh back to the TC crowdsOriginally posted by: brighton_pumpsOriginally posted by: stinky
I was up at TC yesterday as well, had an awesome day too
Ohau last Sunday was nice, the weather cleared a bit in the afternoon, and lots of freshies to be had.
could of had a smokin reunion day
truth be told after realsing the variability and amount of crud on offer i switched back to the gnu.
I rate TC so much im seriously tempted to buy a seasons pass and do every 2nd weekend. U can argue CV and temple have better terrain but both require far more effort and CV is far from uncrowded these days. with mototapu TC must be close to 700ha anyways and TC cat is a legend
Bro I would reserve judgement until you have been to Temple and CV.
TC is a great mountain but I'll take epic uncrowded terrain with a bit of hard work over chairlifts and crowds any day.
as long as that rumour keeps circulating TC will stay as it is, nice and uncrowded
Originally posted by: impreza50thats hutt on a weekend mate, with no powder.
yeah tc is a great mountain but it is still a commercial field and fast chairs means freshies get tracked real fast and on a powder day it can get pretty busy. 30 mins for the saddle on a 50cm powder day last year, sure nothing compared to carides in the school holidays but it still can get a little busy.
PS saddle quad is actually a slow fixed grip
Originally posted by: Jaffa
I thought TC and CV were in Otago not Canterbury
Mt Hutt Rocks
ah no geography man
you think hutt rocks cause they let u play with some toys after the seasons finished a few years back, wow
Originally posted by: Mr. Splodge
Craigieburn Valley is in Canterbury. TC is not but to be fair, this thread is Canterbury People where did you ski today, not where in Canterbury did you ski today so comments in TC are fair enough I guess - if you're from Canterbury.
a little late for the off topic card mate
Originally posted by: Mr. SplodgeCV on a windswept,blue ice hardpack day sounds like the stuff of dreams
I'd take CV over TC any day of the week, in any conditions.
there's always good snow around somewhere if you know where to look
Originally posted by: brighton_pumpsOriginally posted by: downsouthahh back to the TC crowdsOriginally posted by: brighton_pumpsOriginally posted by: stinky
I was up at TC yesterday as well, had an awesome day too
Ohau last Sunday was nice, the weather cleared a bit in the afternoon, and lots of freshies to be had.
could of had a smokin reunion day
truth be told after realsing the variability and amount of crud on offer i switched back to the gnu.
I rate TC so much im seriously tempted to buy a seasons pass and do every 2nd weekend. U can argue CV and temple have better terrain but both require far more effort and CV is far from uncrowded these days. with mototapu TC must be close to 700ha anyways and TC cat is a legend
Bro I would reserve judgement until you have been to Temple and CV.
TC is a great mountain but I'll take epic uncrowded terrain with a bit of hard work over chairlifts and crowds any day.
as long as that rumour keeps circulating TC will stay as it is, nice and uncrowded
Again - go to Temple Basin and Craigieburn before writing them off.
I wrote them off?
Originally posted by: brighton_pumps
U can argue CV and temple have better terrain but both require far more effort and CV is far from uncrowded these days
Go to both. Then decide
I'm not sure I'd consider the hike up to temple or any amount of rope tow riding and/or hiking for lines in one day as being more effort than the 10 hour round trip in the car to go to treble cone.
CV saturday was the dogs nuts!fresh lines to be had every run all day long.club fields rule.keep going to TC chaps!
all this posturing just because i said i personally prefer TC
Id rather use my energy shredding, but yeah as long as the TC is busy and 2 steep for learners rumours keep circulating i'll keep going back.
what other SI hill has over 800m vert from a 5min hike?
boardtaff is that snowsh1tta in your pic at hutt or do you make them whereever you go?
it is at poorters!try the kasi at TB for the best views
roundhill on monday was pretty average.snow was very sticky.rope tow is nice as rope tows go
did you make one at hutt a few weeks back up top of 6?
you'd rather use your energy shredding. yeah right di*khead. lucky it's the internet huh. i think i am shaun white.
Playing with video editing software on recent some recent footage I took at Craigieburn:
YOUTUBE [youtube.com]
Originally posted by: skea 457
Playing with video editing software on recent some recent footage I took at Craigieburn:
YOUTUBE [youtube.com]
Nice vid bro - that gully at 2:00 is wicked! Snow looks pretty sketch in places, even the sloughs were holding some slabby shapes.
When was that?
BP, pull ya head in mate, even the guys up here know all about what you did months back. Hope you liked the card.
good spring morning up at porters today, shame about the winds up top by lunch. comp going down in the park with some crazy tricks on display.
Loco you need to change the record mate, if your 1st troll fails the 2nd one isnt going to be more sucessful
Ok I will change it to how you shred the slopes?
id rather hear about how you shred the slopes travis?
good day at poo ters!not. T3 shut again!whats the matter with that place.T bars always closed down for the slightest of reason!if you cant open up a Tbar in wind;HOW the F*@K you gunna operate chairlifts?
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Travis?
Oh yeah that's right, you don't shred.
Originally posted by: boardtaff
good day at poo ters!not. T3 shut again!whats the matter with that place.T bars always closed down for the slightest of reason!if you cant open up a Tbar in wind;HOW the F*@K you gunna operate chairlifts?
80km/h NW winds are ideal for T3 operation, how slack of them to close it after lunch.
you would know then Alan being the big expert. Why are you hiding from your favorite ski area?
Originally posted by: snowman_alan
you would know then Alan being the big expert. Why are you hiding from your favorite ski area?
Why troll and talk to yourself/other aliases dude?
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two of them must be alans boyfriend
Originally posted by: jedskiOriginally posted by: snowman_alan
you would know then Alan being the big expert. Why are you hiding from your favorite ski area?
Why troll and talk to yourself/other aliases dude?
ah right?
Originally posted by: brighton_pumpsOriginally posted by: boardtaff
good day at poo ters!not. T3 shut again!whats the matter with that place.T bars always closed down for the slightest of reason!if you cant open up a Tbar in wind;HOW the F*@K you gunna operate chairlifts?
big chairs can take a lot more wind than ts. ie jumbo t shuts but highnoon keeps going at turoa.
The problem with ts is a rather small cross wind can blow people off the t line while 6 seater chairs can take nears gale force winds before they sway badly. by the time a 6 seater chair shuts you wont want to be there.
JUST saying"high scattered clouds with slight winds,should be a great day"(porters weather report;today)!?it was windy,but only in there pants.GET that Tbar cranking!
pic didn't work board taff...
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Originally posted by: Snowman_Pimp
two of them must be alans boyfriend
snowman_gimp/loco123....whatever you go by.....if you must keep up your mass-debating keep it to one thread...I'm sick of trawling through your sheeeit.
Did a mission to Temple and back today.
What a farking huge effort for a day mis, weather was craphouse, got soaked on the hike up, dried out for a couple of hours in the lodge and then got soaked as soon as I started riding again, then got even more soaked on the hike back out.
There is some freakin sweet terrain up there though, so many possibilites.
Snow on the temple tow was extremely sticky snot, round on the downhill tow the top 2/3rds was nice heavy pow but then bottom 1/3rd was again sticky snot.
Will have to try and do 3 days up there at least next time to make all the effort worth while, glad I finally got up there though, cool atmosphere
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It was a hard walk today to the ice from daypark 1 for me aswell over 2 rocks and tarmack freshly swept of grit
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Originally posted by: jedski
It was a hard walk today to the ice from daypark 1 for me aswell over 2 rocks and tarmack freshly swept of grit
Jeez Jed, our hour+ hike into temple and 45min out doesn't seem that bad after your effort, hope you didn't strain yourself to much mate
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Hit up Porters for the slush today, lifty said snow pack was 3 degrees before anyone was on it so we didn't have to wait for anything to soften and you could go basically everywhere on the mountain, just had to watch out for the odd stone/rock poking through
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anyone who says the snowpack is 3 degrees is a moron. snow can never be more than 0, it's physically impossible! the overnight low air temp might have been 3 degrees.
hahaha
Just had a freakin sweet day at Broken River today, freshies all over the show, awesome runs down thorugh Allans Basin, it was on
Hopefully the storm comes back in and fills everything in again.
Also with doing BR today that means I have ticked off all 11 CHILL hills for the season so stoked as with that
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Good on ya mate.
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angry and sad all at once .... yayeee
Hutt was good today
the best fields today would be those closer to the divide rather than the eastern fields, and I expect that to continue right through the week.
Had another primo day at BR today
Think they had about 15cms since yday and the BR snow making was in full swing.
They have awesome cover up there.
Like sunday it was a bit windy on the ridgeline but you just didn't hang around long up there.
Allans Basin was awesome, got heaps of fresh lines out there as well as in the main bowl, and not many people to track it out.
Hopefully everything stays sweet up there until BWM's RiderX
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nice one bro. Fun day on Sunday, those chutes were good aye