posts tagged "New Zealand"

Skiing in New Zealand

Sep 28, 2011

A good friend of mine and videographer, Nate Steinbauer, is currently in New Zealand skiing the Southern Alps. Needless to say the pictures are stunning, take a look at Nate and Steph’s latest adventure on their site Through Five Eyes. – Erme


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2010/2011 Winter snowfall prediction | The final chapter?

Sep 20, 2010

Words: Steve Boisvert

A month ago I tempted the science behind the total snowfall of the Southern Hemisphere and how it tends to predict the Northern Hemisphere’s winter season, and I have been following their snowfall ever since. Just when I think the season is finished, and my prediction is finally obsolete, New Zealand gets more snow once again for the Energizer season that just keeps going and going.

Cardrona, New Zealand: 16 inches just ten hours prior to writing this. Mount Ruapehu: 8 fresh inches and more forecast for the week. Rainbow: 2.5 feet since it started snowing Thursday with the end barely in sight. The bummer is that they are closed until roads can be cleared and the wind dies down.

So it seems the late season winter is holding strong for the southerners as well as my optimism for our season; assuming mother nature follows the rules of my prediction.

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2010/2011 Prediction: We Will Get Pummelled with Snow

Aug 20, 2010

Words: Steve Boisvert

If you didn’t read the article from which my highly scientific argument is based upon, you should do that now. Now that you are enlightened, it is like holding the Farmer’s Almanac, only with a bit more science behind it–maybe.

With a solid foundation I am ecstatic to report that Cerro Catedral, Argentina has been devastated with snow, and more is in the forecast for the next six days. The on-the-ground (or snow) conditions according to South American Snow Sessions is that there is so much snow you can barely move. Without some fat sticks that is.

Mt. Hutt in New Zealand was just handed 3 feet of snow over the course of one weekend (August 7-8) as their base at the top crested 6 feet with even more in the forecast.

So get amped, and keep buffing those skis until you have blisters. It’s coming…

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