Powder Day

We had our friends Max and Fin and their little boy Morgan (2) staying with us over the past few days and on Saturday we all decided to head through to Cardrona for a day on the snow. The reports said a few cm of fresh snow overnight so we were pretty excited about getting up there for a day's boarding.

We decided to see just how much fresh snow had fallen in the back bowls (down towards Arrowtown from Cardrona - i.e. over the back of the ski field) and were rewarded with some of the best powder runs of our lives. Most of our hiking involves hiking up and then getting the reward of riding back down but yesterday we had to do the opposite (snowboard down, stop and then walk back up in the snow). The snow was so good that it required great willpower to stop - it was only the length of the walk back up that stopped us! After 3 hikes plus some time on piste with the others we headed home tired but VERY happy.

Sorry about the quality of the photos - we only took Andrea's phone up with us which doesn't have a very good camera.

Our 2 tracks in the snow

You can see the type of terrain and why it was so hard to stop:

Looking back up the hill

Greg at the bottom of one of the runs in between our two tracks