Gone Fishing

With the PG AWOL today. He chose fishing @ the Baz rather than a roadie to Ohakune for a ski. I was alone at Turoa.

It’s week 2 of the school holidays here so town is packed with families on holiday. Our little street is almost fully occupied and so it was no surprise that on a windless bluebird day Turoa was crawling with folks.

The queues started just before the Massey Hut on the hair pin bend around 8.45. Cars crawled up and looked like the top car park was full around 8.40. Even with a wankers pass you still have to sit in traffic.

All lifts opened before 9am today with - you guessed it massive queues to load both the Movenpick and Parklane lifts. The line outside the ticket office was also weekend like.

Since my last blog we have had around 100mm of rain at the house and 75mm of snow mid mountain. This has meant that while the snow above mid mountain is still in good shape the lower mountain is really thin. With such warm temps (5-10C) today one wonders how long before we download.

Mid Mountain snow conditions are very nice with packed powder on the runs and soft releasing snow off trail after lunch. Boneyard still remains nice and wide TGFT with all the traffic today that’s a godsend. Things can turn to custard pretty quickly with all newbies and school kids out blitzing the runs.

Queues for both the HNE and Giant were weekend like this morning with the singles line for the HNE stretching up into the ski lane.

The blog will be returning next week hopefully Monday or Tuesday when schools back

Toastie

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