Scaces Place

Monday, August 30, 2010

NZ 2010

Headed over to NZ for my annual ski trip, So an early start with Fred and Amanda took off and flew into Queenstown after being told 31kg over the total weight limit and let on a

nyway. The flight in was amazing coming in over the mount

ains being able to see all the mountains and . On arrival we headed directly to our hotel, Peppers Beacon Resort to catch up with Nige and Bevan our NZ counterparts - Tui, Speights and Ferg for dinner cant get much more kiwi. We had

Emma join our ranks for a few days, which gave another excuse to go out in town and have Ferg burger for a 2nd time.

View from the plane as coming into Queenstown

Nige and Emma mounting a Moa in Q'town

We had a great time and hit up Cardrona, the Remarkables, the conditions and snow were very variable, it was still a great time and had some great days towards the end of the week.

So the Remarkables a great place to ski but watch out for those huts

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o-8dcMKhYl8

View up the chair at the Remarkables

After Queenstown we jumped in the car and headed to Methven to catch up with Sammie and hit up Mt Hutt and Porters these were some great days and there is some pretty exciting plans in the works for Porters putting in a new village and gondolas so will have to check it out in about 4 years.