Thin Blue Line

While it did look nice and clear in this photo it only last for like 5min.

With the forecast looking pretty dodgy for the next few days I decided that this could be the last ski day until Friday, so up I went.

Upon arrival I was greeted with cloud and low viz. The 1st ride up on the Movenpick it was pretty hard to see one tower in front of you. The bottom of the Giant Chair lift was completely hidden in the low cloud - who knew it was even there.

1st run down Boneyard was certainly challenging given no visiability and no blue line. EEK they hadn’t got to putting one down yet. Thankfully Boneyard snow conditions are somewhat better than 2 weeks ago with the run being wider and that tight corner 1/2 way down has plenty of snow cover now. On towards Clarry’s Track and the rocks have been mostly covered and the tight corner by the water storage pond is a ton safer with the 2m coverage. The dude putting down the blue line was just behind me so waiting for him to finish and following him down made things so much easier. A guy that I shared a lift with asked if this is a Turoa thing with the blue line as it was his first time here. Any of my homies that read the blog know that answer?? My advice was stick to that blue line, short radius turns are your friend here and go SLOW. Turoa is a dangerous place with monstrous rocks, cliff banks and lots of learning snow bunnies.

Conditions were a little better today with the light drizzle giving way to wind and cloud. The car park was also only 1/2 full at most so all those school kids up here yesterday have headed back to school. And yes truancy is a thing we have discussed previously on the blog.