Well. the mounmtain is crap and im at work and want to go riding,

.....second to last day the seaosnj is open, AND itsraining....AND tomrrow its ment to be snowing! what the hell!!! so crazy and, the season can stay open for atleast another month, maybe even two, but ohwell.

we still have 190cm bass, so rediculous.

blaaaaaaaaaaaaaaah!

The DRagon carona big air comp was cancelled today which is dissapointing, grrrrrrr to TUroa!

Me n my new boo JOrdy are going to go camping soon which should be super fun, hes goin to Samoa for like 6 days in two weeks, Damnet! i want a bit of summer before i go back to Canada!...hopefully get a surf in... but no money to go up there! aaaaaaaaaargh!

Does anyone know what kind of winter Whistler is ment to have this seaosn, or up in Calgury???

need to majke plans..

well im gunna head out, gotta go make some sales,

ill write again soon!.....

Holla back!

yeow!

memorial for my friend Callum tomrrow, dress up day up the mountain! yay!!

R.I.P bussy!

Spoy ya guys lata

M.monay

 

 

I did it!!!! My one real goal this year, and I finally did it!

It got to about 3:30 and Cris decided to take his leave, with his friends, so Alannah and I were deciding what to do for our last run, we headed up the top T-bar (where else would yo go) - and When we got there she said "Which way should we go?" (meaning left or right) - and I thought about it for a bit, and said "Up." Initially we were just gonna go a few hundred metres, just to get some of the nice untracked snow up there. A few hundred metres turned into "We'll hike till 4 and see how far we get", then 4 o clock rolled around, and we were like ".......50 more steps!" - and they came and went, and we did 50 more, and 50 more...... Well by this stage it was clear that to strap in and ride down from anywhere less than the summit would be cheating ourselves, and although we were only about 1/4 of the way up by now, we just kept going and going....

50 minutes later and we made it!!!!! I've been told it's a 1.5 hour hike. It was the most incredible thing I've ever done with snowboarding!

It's nothing like I expected up there. The summit plateau is BIG- and the lake is silver! It's so strange to think that the lake doesn't really have a bottom.... It's strange to stand there and stare into the mouth of an active volcano, that just 2 weeks ago was threatening to throw its toys....

Eventually we had to ride back down, although I could have stayed there untill it got dark.. We strapped in, and I had the HUGEST run of my life!! The altitude meant that the snow was drier the higher we got, so the first part was pure heaven! I was on my Japan board, which is oh-so- fast, and we had SO MUCH ROOM! It was close to 5pm by the time we dropped in, and we were the only people there! We literally had all that snow to ourselves! We were all over it too- pushing out so far to the sides, laying back HUUUUGE turns, then dropping sections straight and then craaaanking on an edge and slingshot-ing around.... Oh man it was unreal!!! Most of my big runs to date have been snowboard in, hike out, so you know what's coming up, but this time we'd done all the hard work and all we had to do was just enjoy it! And we did! If you ride at Ruapehu and haven't yet hiked the summit, DOOO IT!

 

No cameras, all we had was Lana's phone cam (which is less than ideal)

 

 

 

 

Aaaand here's my graphical synopsis:

 

 

3927 feet of vertical right there!!!

wot a tiring last two weeks of snowpark last weekend was the chop olympics!! was sweet i learnt 5's in the pipe and managed to get a bronze medal in the pipe against our olympic representative sweet..also got a brone medal in the jibbin!! nic won the rails..yeah boi!! last couple of days have been the mountain dew fiesta yesterday nic and i managed to clean up the rails both 1st in the open and pocketing a sweet 250 bux yeah!!! today closing day we had to make a sled we made a giant penis with the MTV crew and filmed riding with them all day so will be funny to be on tv...well snowparks closed we leave wanaka to my home town on monday...road trip of 3days depending how fast ur driving across the ferry and i get sea sick so not looking forward to it..then our flights are booked for November 8th back to Canada we go for more shredding n good times!! and maybe going shredding at Turoa for labour weekend so dat should be sickkkkkkkkkkkk!!!

 

 

Yesterday I rode the best snow I have ever seen since I started in 2000. 3 Of us took the day off and headed up to Turoa, which for the last 3 days has been having heavy snowfall. It was still stormy low altitude and you couldn't see the mountain from Ohakune. Was it a bad choice to come today? We got to the top, and it was blue-bird, with no crowds!!! Jesse's internal snow radar proved itself once again...... Anyways we spent the whole day making new tracks, all over the mountain, it was so so sick. At one stage I turned around to se my friend Querps up to his neck in powder :O

For the most part the day was clear and blue- we had one or two spots of snow though!

There were so many cliffs to be dropped and so much deep powder to be slashed- I just didn't want to stop and take photos! Fortunately I have some, which I can share with you here. Enjoy! I did :)

 

On the access road.....

 

Didn't look too good as this stage!

 

Still climbing, still cloudy....

 

Q-Daddy, suiting up!! It was flippin' cold, so the bandannas are actually functional, not just there so we can look like we're gonna rob the place.

 

Cold lift ride! Look at those crowds.......

 

Querps making some tracks!

 

Hiking the glacier!!

 

Jesse, jumping off a pretty flippin' big cliff!

 

We got allot of 1st drops like the one in the above photo, there was no-one around to drop them before us!! I don't have photo's of me because I can't do two things at once. Jesse took some though, so if you're lucky..... Haha

 

Peace!

ive got so much news i dont know where to start.... well rite now i am looking out my window and i can see a beautiful snowy mountain but i cant go riding becasue it is too windy.... gay gay ggay. im living at turoa village at the bottom of mt ruapehu for the whole winter. i had a job working at a kafe but the boss hated me... i dont actually know why, i was probably way too cool for school! so anyway i quit there last thursday and now i am a bum. a snowboarding punk bitch who sits at home in her undies and eats chocolate that her sponsered flatemate won in a snoboard comp.... my flatemate is this canadian girl who is a sick sick sick RIDER....! super sick! shes not teaching me so much but and i might come to canada with her this summer of go to snobird tahoe.... anyway back to being a bum.... the neighbors are paying me to clean up their flat today so that i canpay my rent, and some old lady wants me to help her bake cookies so that should be interesting.....  on friday nights i run the punk showcase on zero FM, the local snow station, its called "pudz punk showcase" pudz is short for puddles, which is a smaller version of ocean.... so thats what the locals call me... i havnt really doing so much filming yet, but now that im a bum i might do a bit more.... i just wanna ride all the time... everybody here is pro man its insane! i have a friend leroy, hes 16 and on the international DC and internatinal OAkley team. in 2 weeks hes going to the south island to go heli boarding..... cool huh! im so freaking jelous. i now have a little car cause i was hitchhiking all the time and my mum got scared so she bought me one. saweeeeeeeeeeeeeeet!!! its so gheto it barley makes it up the mountain orad and i get heaps of cars behind me beeping! its so cool! now im the one picking up hitchikers! i picked up these to canadian lesbian hippies who tried to sell me a weed plant hahahahaha. anyway its almost 12pm and ive only just got outta bed so i betta go do something with my day. i might go skating.... peace homiez