Got things started with a little trail running on Saturday. We both ran to the snow line, which worked out to be about 900m of vert. Was good to get an idea of things, as we planned to return the next day with skis.
On Sunday we started from North Egmont, up the Summit Rd, but not before being asked "do you know this mountain?" by a little old lady who was concerned that we might be a little confused with the skis on our back.
We made it to the 2518m summit of Mt Taranaki in about 3hrs and had really good skiing off the top before skiing into the early after noon cloud that had rolled in. We made it back to the camper in just under 5hrs for the car-summit-car trip, with 1585m climbing and about 700m vert skiing. 
I woke up yesterday and wanted to ski some more, so after a late start (3 in the after noon!) I managed to climb to the top of Snow Valley (just over 12oom from the Camp House) in about 1hr45min. It was there that I meet up with Glenn, the man behind MountainZ and iclimb. I was hoping to catch up with Glenn on this trip, so it was a nice surprise to randomly meet him out on the hill rather than in a cafe or bar.Training is coming along, but when I add up the vertical I climbed over the last 3 days it doesn't even add up to the total vert of the Patrouille des Glaciers race, let alone the 10,000 vertical meters that's climbed during the 4 day event the Pierra Menta!
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