The Return of Winter
After five days closure due to ultra-warm days and saturated snow pack, TC opened again on Thursday to a small crowd who didn’t mind skiing in the mist and rain. We stayed at home and I ticked off yet another bike track. On Friday MetService predicted a better day. We welcomed the return to familiar ground after exploring most of the runs and craft beer options at Cardrona earlier in the week. It was snowing heavily at TC when we arrived and visibility was marginal. A couple of runs on a very slick Easy Rider and Mainstreet were enough to earn coffee time. New snow accumulating on the piste slowly changed the mood and the skiing started to improve. After a lunch drying gear by the fire the webcams showed a clearance up top. Photo credit: Pete Platts. With weak sunlight finding holes in the swirling clouds we walked to the summit for fresh tracks in about 5cm of powder. Later, down in Wanaka, some things don’t change, and one of th...
