Wind in the mountains and snow on the flats!

The week started off looking very promising with a lot of snow forecast to come in over the mountains but as always the reports went from 30cm down to about 5cm and we ended up with a soft sprinkle to just help cover up the hard snow underneath. The weekend consisted or a friday at Porters with a few tight shoots and a couple of nice NZ classic rock drops to ice landings. Saturday we decided to head out a bit further and go to Mount Olympus and on the 1st run Austin hit a wind lip and chipped his knee cap! Being the true friend and rider he is he made us carry on the day whilst he stayed in the hut watching us do a few lines. In honor of him we decided to hike to the top of the biggest peak and dropped some super sick lines. All in all Olympus looks to be a great ski area and one im looking forward to heading back to very soon and am very happy that they are in the process of planning a big mountain competition to be held there in the next year or 2.
Sunday we decided even though the weather had come in and the winds had picked up that we should go for a ride to Craigieburn and check it out. I have heard so much about this resort and it lived up to its name even in the strong winds and flat light we still managed to find some wicked lines inbetween the 30min stops in the cabin to warm up and wait for a patch of clear sky.

Dan waiting for the next patch of clear sky

The last couple of days we have been snowed in in Christchurch and so have decided to write up the CUSSC (Canterbury Uni Snowsports Club) game of G.N.A.R. It is be based on the same G.N.A.R rules that Square Valley use with a few changes (eg. Talking out Liv Winn for lunch at a chippy) and adding a few extra to help make it more relative to the students of Canterbury of which i am now an honorary rider for, plus the addition of the new internet based craze of planking. The game can obviously be played at all times of everyday but we will hold a special weekend up at Temple Basin specific for the game of G.N.A.R.

A naked plank at the top of a peak earns you 5000points

The idea was to head up to Mount Lyford today but with the 250 people trapped up at the resort and the roads closed off due to high winds and avalanche warnings we have decided to chill and catch up on some good old blogging instead. New blog after the weekend with hopefully some powder ripping shots.