NZ Club Fields & Heli Trip – Day 6 – Methven Heliskiing – “So Happy Day!”

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Today was a special one. Between the 4 of us, we have approx 40 full winters of living, and working in ski resorts, many of them back-to-back between both hemispheres, and of course countless weeks and months on snow outside our working careers. One of the Japanese snowboarders from one of the other groups declared

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NZ Club Field & Heli Trip – Day 2 – Methven Heliskiing

Our Magic Carpet Ride - Methven Heliski - 25/7/10

The heliskiing topic was first broached yesterday when Andrew got off the second T-Bar at Porters and declared “There’s no way I can heliski tomorrow”. 3 late afternoon runs at Porters are the sum total of his skiing since Utah in February and he was pretty adamant that he wanted to warm up more before

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NZ Club Field & Heli Trip – Day One – Rental Cars, Road Trips and a Few Turns

We woke early at Christchurch, had a great breakfast and strong coffee just by the Cathedral, went to the Chill office to pick up our lift tickets, nut crackers, glove protectors etc, and got on the road. The roof racks on the rental car were pretty crap, but when heading out of town the ‘Check

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