Ohau Fun Ohau NZ Can Be -09/08/09

Date:

Sept 8th, 2009

Location in a Quaint Island Country: Ohau, New Zealand

Whether Weather Weathers:

Skiers of the Mountain:

Skier666, Sheepdog & Takeshi

Camera Club Members:

Sheepdog, 666, Tak, Woody & Seanyob

Music: Logistics – Murderation

Synopsis:

Oh how Ohau’s condition differs everytime I visit thee….

Older Ohau TR’s:

AND….

TUESDAY!:

Good morning sunshine…too much sake?

Kiwis…so happy…always

Great vinyl for sale in Methven…

Picked this lovely item up for Shugs….

New Zealand….no, really.

Mini-sirloin-lamb-burgers…..

Ireland…

Kiwi paved road….

Idiots…in front of glaciated colored pond….

Radne55….

Kiwi tall mountain…

Color photo…

Black & White photo…

Perfect SUP’ing water….

Woody = Native…

The safe road to the ski hill….

Ticket window MOMENT…

Toilet shot combined with the lone chairlift…

Sheepdog is bored….

That guy….

Yay…we’re skiing….almost…

Frontside gnar gnar…

Hemi’s basin in the BC was frozen solid, we hunted for wind-blown…

Like this….

And this…

Tak, out of nowhere, pulls a sick air…..

666 attempts to carve on rockered powder skis….

Sheepdog’s Kingswoods hold an edge…

…and holds it….

666 having fun….on rockered powder skis….

Rockered Powder ski carve towards base of the lift…

666 with his rockered powder skis from the future….

Deep pocket….

….into groomed open bowl

Skiing is fun….

Sheepdog going ABSOLUTELY MASSIVE!!!!

Tak scares the shit out of us….

From the Point and Shoot…..

AND….from the photo nerds from the car…OMG 2 CAMERAS!!!!

Sheepdog herding snow…

Finally, another angle….

666 ventures WAY OUT and finds deep wind fresh….

Ski Patrol turns…..

on rockered powder skis….

FUN all the way down to the access road….

Ok, so I took two laps…sue me.

Losing light….

Tak makes another appearance on the ridge….

and makes the ‘turn of the day’….

Please pick up the Yank….please….

Yep, that’s the road!

Seanyob, a dedicated blogger-helper-out’er….

Woody grabs a nice photo…

…while keeping the bar stools warm waiting for our arrival…

But Seanyob gets the perfect departing shot…

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bye