Sourdough Soldiers Session South Island Slopes – 09/04/09

Date:

Sept 4th, 2009

Location: Remarkables, New Zealand….view from Heli the day of arrival………oh my!

Weather:

Skiers:

Skier666, Seanyob, Sheepdog, & Takeshi

Picture Takers:

Sheepdog, 666 & Seanyob

Music: Skream – Percression

Synopsis:

Taxi pickup in San Francisco to riding the Shadow lift at the Remarks takes only 24 hours.

FRIDAY!:

Skiing is so stupid.

Seat Slaves….

After 12 hours of leg crushing torture, the quaint island country comes into view….

Auckland arrival….no sleep = officially seeing blurred images….

Maybe a quick trip to Bali????

Only the finest literature for the 6’er on the connecting flight…

North Island….south of Auckland….not very white.

Southern Alps = Winterized

A current picture of mountains in NZ….

Tectonic Plates….

Cardrona ski field….FROM THE SKY!

Arrival to horrible weather…

Sheepdog picks us up and we head straight to the slopes…

LOLZ! So Gangsta’

First run. And so it begins…..

Tak eating a sushi roll…..

666 cleaning his bases…

South Facing = Sheepdog powder

Tak is caffeinated….

Tak in Telex….

….an extreme skier

Oh my!

Chilled factor 10….

The snow was good, Tak’s jokes are not.

666 takes a breather….

Traverses into Diagonalator…..

It was boring….

Snow was horrendous….

While Sheepdog and Seanyob smoked cancer sticks, Tak and I traversed out to this…

Tak points to his house….

Late afternoon ridge schralping….

OMG, SO BEAUTIFUL!

Tak finally heads toward our pickup location….

It was like our own little heli-run…..

Heh….

Jetlagged? No way. Break out the SUP….

Its Gore-tex right?

Stilling the spirits….

Dinner? Nah, lets head up Coronet Peak!

Its a Friday night, the music is right for Night Shredding….

Surprisingly awesome…

Better with some scolding spirits….

Take one….

Take two….666 is running on fumes.

Dub music, Kiwis think they invented it

Bye bye….

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<end of first South Island transmission>