Shredding Treble Cone

July 23, 24, and 25

Last Thursday I got a ride with this guy named Simon and a couple of college students to Wanaka, which is the closest town to TC. I stayed in a hostel Thursday night and luckily I got a room all to myself. Simon picked me up at 8 on Friday and we headed up the mountain to the ski field. This was a new experience for me, completely different from going to a resort in the U.S. We drove out on the highway and then turned on to a dirt rode that wound, steeply up the mountain. Then after about ten minutes we risen into a cloud and the carpark for the field presented itself.

Finally, I saw some snow for the entire climb up the mountain I hadn't seen any. Simon commented that it was a good sign to see snow in the carpark, I thought to myself, "Back home we have a name for when there's no snow in the parking lot, it's called summer." Needless to say there wasn't a lot of snow on the mountain but there were some good runs to go on none the less.

Friday night I shared a room with 2 guys from Austrailia and a third from England. We went to a bar and had some drinks and chatted. They couldn't believe it when I told them that my home back in the states is at 7200 ft. above sea level which is 400 ft. higher then Treble Cone peak. The rest of the weekend went smoothly, I skied two more days and was exhausted and sore by the end. I caught a ride back with some fellow Otago students on Sunday afternoon because the guy I rode up with was going to stay and ski on Monday.

All in all it was an excellent weekend, it was good to ski again, its got me excited about skiing back home this winter thats for sure.