Air NZ Ski Club

A great day for the club ski race at Porters today. Not a lot of snow but what was there provided lots of fun.

All That Snow :-)

This is one of the results of our controlled avalanche work Thursday morning at Tūroa. Travelling down from above the ski area & through Big Bowl and Why Not, ending past the lower elevation of the ski resort. Both Big Bowl and Why Not are incredibly fun parts of our ski area to ride and avalanche control work such as this helps make sure all our guests and staff remain safe, with smiles on their faces from a good days skiing. One of the reasons the avalanche was of this magnitude is because a persistent weak layer was buried far down in the snow pack over two weeks ago due to the ongoing storms we've been getting. When first releasing the avalanche slab was in dry snow and was moving incredibly fast, as it travelled lower it began picking up wetter snow and became the slightly slower, heavier mass you see in this video.

https://youtu.be/_PC7HxfLs38 Radar, Lets do this!!

Un cut version of Hahnenkamm Kitzbuhel Downhill 2013 First training run POV very bumpy!

Look who you meet in the most unlikely places!! Francis and Dave were seated on Southwest at LAX when Bryce walked in. What's the chances?

it's a great day to ski !

Coffee and snow... and a great day

great day NOT at the office !