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Apologies for the latest update – I’ve given my camera to a family member for an overseas trip and am relying on my new iPhone for blog pics – the quality is unreal but a few IT difficulties has meant I’ve had to wait until now to post.
What a weekend – woke up to fresh snow on Sat morning, so we bounced out of bed and were skiing first tracks on Wood Run well before 9am. We followed that with a couple of fresh laps on Hog’s Back, followed by Women’s and a couple under the Fed chair – we then heard the Northside was rocking, so headed for Cow Camp (summer grooming here is a disgrace – more on this later) and then a couple of sublime runs on Dam Run. After that it was up to the Summit and over to the Fast One and Fanny’s/ We then went for a bush bash in an un-named location – snow was good but overall this are needs more snow. We followed this with scaring punters in Outer Edge, a couple more in Southside, also Rough Cut and the day was called – over 20 runs, all of them great.
A slightly later start on Sunday was no handicap – we got to Fast One and it had filled in with windblown snow and was buffed totally smooth. So a couple of laps here, back to Fanny’s, Southside again, back to the Northside for a look at Village 3, up to McLaughlin’s, Fast One again, Powder Keg, Ben’, Boulders and then Sun Valley & Hog’s Back to make sure we were totally ruined. We skied everywhere that was open apart from Chamois and had a ripper weekend. Buller’s superior terrain was at the fore this weekend – nowhere else in Australia can you ski such a variety of diverse steep, ungroomed terrain, with the vast majority of it easily lapped from a single lift, we didn’t ski a groomer except for access trails.
So we closed in on 40 runs for the weekend, none of them groomed, and have left with tired legs, a sore back but big smiles. Here are some pics:
Tirol T-Bar:
Bush Bash:
Village 3:
Wood Run:
Hog’s Back:
Bull Run Bowl:
The Bluff:
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Just got up on the hill, snowing pretty hard, place looks good!
Will keep updating over the weekend.
