After the Wilderness post a few days ago I remembered about the write up in The Climber that SkiMoNZ has in the latest winter issue. For those of you out there smart enough to be a New Zealand Alpine Club member you will have received a copy of The Climber a few weeks ago now. If you don’t have a copy, head down to your nearest book store and pick one up, or even better -join the NZAC and receive 4 issue’s a year of The Climber. Click HERE on how to become a NZAC member.The article is titled “Skin To Win” and details the upcoming race series as well as having some pointers to make racing and more importantly,
your day to day ski touring more enjoyable. This latest issue is heavy on skiing (a good thing!)
and also includes an excellent article by Shane Orchard on ski mountaineering in the Aoraki Mt Cook area, which is well worth a read!
Top to bottom skiing at Temple Basin!
Hard to believe yes, but apart from one tiny section of walking, Damin managed to ski from the top of "Down Hill Buttress" to Temple tow shed a few days ago. His route down was via "Main Chute". Main chute is normally a big, wide open chute in normal snow years. So big and wide its generally not that interesting to ski, but in low snow years like this its a treat! Hardly filled in at all, its currently steep and narrow, like all good couloirs should be and is skiing really well with hard "grippy" snow.
Top to bottom skiing at Temple Basin!
Hard to believe yes, but apart from one tiny section of walking, Damin managed to ski from the top of "Down Hill Buttress" to Temple tow shed a few days ago. His route down was via "Main Chute". Main chute is normally a big, wide open chute in normal snow years. So big and wide its generally not that interesting to ski, but in low snow years like this its a treat! Hardly filled in at all, its currently steep and narrow, like all good couloirs should be and is skiing really well with hard "grippy" snow.
