Mount Cardrona - South Catchment

Sunshine has gone with family to Bali for a week! :(

So I went skiing for 2 days.

I started on the field but it didn't take long to be bored and slightly annoyed by too many people. The urge to be alone and making fresh tracks out back was too much. They say never ski out back alone.. and doing last year's Avalanche 1 course makes me hyper aware of this danger... but it really is a beautiful thing... just me and my dog Mira, running around in the silent beauty of soft spring snow.

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Ohau - DumBell - Freehold Creek ski tour

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Ohau tour

Sunshine hurt her knee on this trip.

Mount Pisgah

Mike and I took Thursday off, took the dogs and went on the hunt for snow within 1 1/2 hours from Dunedin. We found Mount Pisgah and skied a delightful run from 1600 down to 900 masl. According to the farmer who confronted us on our way out, he'd never seen skiers up there before, and he looked like he'd been around a while. I got his number and plan to go back, especially if it snows again.

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Another trip to Fox Peak

Nicky took me to Fox Peak and introduced me to her ski touring buddies. We all had a lovely 2 days hanging out at Fox. First day was pretty tough skiing crusty snow. Second day was better, helped the locals dig out the top rope tow on our way skinning up towards the Peak for a great run down.

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