28 May and the snow making cranks up.
Boy we need it. Warm weather and brown mountains aren't conducive to the prospect of playing in the snow
Saturday, May 28, 2011
Let the snow making begin
28 May and the snow making cranks up.
Boy we need it. Warm weather and brown mountains aren't conducive to the prospect of playing in the snow
Monday, May 16, 2011
Oh my god we are getting pelted !
Oh my god we are getting pelted ! Haaaalllpppppppppppp.
Check out this forecast run by our good friends in the earth sciences department of Victoria university - MetVuw.com
Now that's a piece of weather artwork sweeping across the country ....
Book mark this page to get a one click forecast with Surface wind, MSLP ( mean sea level pressure ) and rainfall
http://www.metvuw.com/forecast/forecast1.php?type=rain®ion=nz&tim=12
Check out this forecast run by our good friends in the earth sciences department of Victoria university - MetVuw.com
Now that's a piece of weather artwork sweeping across the country ....
Book mark this page to get a one click forecast with Surface wind, MSLP ( mean sea level pressure ) and rainfall
http://www.metvuw.com/forecast/forecast1.php?type=rain®ion=nz&tim=12
Sunday, May 15, 2011
Icing on the cake
The proverbial icing on the cake.
Now huey you can get really in to winter and start dumping some serious white stuff .
Pleaze.
Now huey you can get really in to winter and start dumping some serious white stuff .
Pleaze.
Thursday, May 12, 2011
4th of June - I'll Be There - How About You ?
4th of June
Put it in your diary
I'll be there
Will you ?
Put it in your diary
I'll be there
Will you ?
Monday, April 18, 2011
Monday, April 04, 2011
Snow on the Peak
Snow on the hills and its early April. Looking good.
Whoze got their season pass then? My godson got a Treble Cone student season pass for $400. That's not bad going !
Wednesday, March 09, 2011
agggh hahahahahaha - pleasantly surprised - NOT
Last season, NZSki hiked the pass by $100 to $799. It is now almost three-times what it was when first introduced in 2001 for $299.
Prior to unveiling 2011 prices ( 30 December 1010 ) NZSki chief executive James Coddington told a local meeting that residents would be “pleasantly surprised”, while marketing boss Craig Douglas said the change "wasn’t major".
Wot a joke.
"Pleasantly surprised" - NOT
"Wasn't major" - NOT
Let's be honest they just want to make more money $$$$$$
Like any sensible sustainable business.
Trouble is the suckers are the loyal local customers.
Here are some more comments
WHY IT ISN'T GOOD VALUE
To be honest, it's a bit redundant even continuing this argument as NZ Ski's statement shows that they really don't give a stuff what people think, and that they clearly consider anyone who disagrees with their viewpoint is selfish, unappreciative and possibly even too stupid to understand how complex running a skifield is.
However, just for the record here are a number of reasons why $889 represents poor value for money for me personally (though no doubt I'm being single-minded and selfish).
- skiing the Remarkables is like skiing Bulgaria in 1992. The Shadow and Sugar lifts are old and slow, frequently stop, breakdown or cannot be operated in a breath of wind. The runs are short and mostly uninteresting. If you want to ski anything good you mostly have to hike to it. Frankly, you would have to pay me to ski the Remarkables.
Because of the above I'd be paying $889 to ski Coronet alone. Coronet is a nice mountain which I like a lot. However, it does not represent good value because.....
- In June the Greengates lift does not open except at weekends, even when there is sufficient snow to do so. Therefore, a fairly decent chunk of the mountain is unavailable.
- The same pretty much applies to Rocky Gully.
- Too many times areas of the mountain are closed off for training or races. This can last all day and has been a constant source of frustration as these runs of course tend to be the best areas. Coronet, whilst nice, is not large enough to sustain so much closure of good runs and still provide a good day.
But I guess my biggest problem with NZ Ski is that they have sucked all the fun out of skiing their mountains. I can't think of skiing their mountains without becoming angry. They also clearly think that they and they alone have driven growth in Queenstown over the last 10 years and that we'd all be lost and unemployed without them. Well, hello, there are 8 months of the year with no skiing and yet we seem to manage. How can that be....?
and whooze been to japan lately ??
NZS bosses talked about the growth of the Aussie market. They are at huge risk of losing that business to Japan. Day tickets at Niseko is a little over $55 , foods much cheaper and vastly superior to NZS offerings, and its all natural snow.
I and most of my friends have given away skiing in NZ and Aus in favour of the Japan pow.
Apart from airfares ,every part of my holiday costs is less in Japan. I love SLs but NZS are losing touch with their market.
Prior to unveiling 2011 prices ( 30 December 1010 ) NZSki chief executive James Coddington told a local meeting that residents would be “pleasantly surprised”, while marketing boss Craig Douglas said the change "wasn’t major".
Wot a joke.
"Pleasantly surprised" - NOT
"Wasn't major" - NOT
Let's be honest they just want to make more money $$$$$$
Like any sensible sustainable business.
Trouble is the suckers are the loyal local customers.
Here are some more comments
WHY IT ISN'T GOOD VALUE
To be honest, it's a bit redundant even continuing this argument as NZ Ski's statement shows that they really don't give a stuff what people think, and that they clearly consider anyone who disagrees with their viewpoint is selfish, unappreciative and possibly even too stupid to understand how complex running a skifield is.
However, just for the record here are a number of reasons why $889 represents poor value for money for me personally (though no doubt I'm being single-minded and selfish).
- skiing the Remarkables is like skiing Bulgaria in 1992. The Shadow and Sugar lifts are old and slow, frequently stop, breakdown or cannot be operated in a breath of wind. The runs are short and mostly uninteresting. If you want to ski anything good you mostly have to hike to it. Frankly, you would have to pay me to ski the Remarkables.
Because of the above I'd be paying $889 to ski Coronet alone. Coronet is a nice mountain which I like a lot. However, it does not represent good value because.....
- In June the Greengates lift does not open except at weekends, even when there is sufficient snow to do so. Therefore, a fairly decent chunk of the mountain is unavailable.
- The same pretty much applies to Rocky Gully.
- Too many times areas of the mountain are closed off for training or races. This can last all day and has been a constant source of frustration as these runs of course tend to be the best areas. Coronet, whilst nice, is not large enough to sustain so much closure of good runs and still provide a good day.
But I guess my biggest problem with NZ Ski is that they have sucked all the fun out of skiing their mountains. I can't think of skiing their mountains without becoming angry. They also clearly think that they and they alone have driven growth in Queenstown over the last 10 years and that we'd all be lost and unemployed without them. Well, hello, there are 8 months of the year with no skiing and yet we seem to manage. How can that be....?
and whooze been to japan lately ??
NZS bosses talked about the growth of the Aussie market. They are at huge risk of losing that business to Japan. Day tickets at Niseko is a little over $55 , foods much cheaper and vastly superior to NZS offerings, and its all natural snow.
I and most of my friends have given away skiing in NZ and Aus in favour of the Japan pow.
Apart from airfares ,every part of my holiday costs is less in Japan. I love SLs but NZS are losing touch with their market.
Thursday, December 16, 2010
Less snow but better snowmakers for skifields
Ev says humbug ... I want the real McCoy not some machine made powder pooff ... maybe a little earthquake would help raise the mountains a bit to combat this global warming thingo ... or maybe we just need to vote for global cooling ...
Less snow but better snowmakers for skifields
New Zealand will have less snow by the end of the century, but not as little as initially thought, and better snow-making machines will help skifields cope, according to new climate modelling by the National Institute of Water and Atmospheric Research (Niwa).
It was the first time a quantitative assessment of the potential impact of climate change on snow levels has been done in New Zealand.
Niwa scientists created three different emissions scenarios, which were used to calculate how the different levels of climate change could affect snow levels for the years 2030-2049 and 2080-2099.
They found:
* On average, at nearly all elevations, there will be a gradual decrease in snow as the century progresses.
* The decrease is more marked at elevations below 1000m.
Depending on skifield location and elevation, under a warmer climate change scenario, by 2090, on average, current maximum snow depths at the upper elevation sites will be further reduced, to approximately 79 per cent to 35 per cent.
The reductions were less marked for mid-range climate change scenario.
"Fortunately for New Zealand, we are unlikely to see the more extreme impacts predicted in Europe and Australia. Our modelling shows that the loss may actually be less than originally anticipated and we should be able to continue to make snow, even under a more extreme climate scenario, right out to the 2090s," said Niwa snow and ice scientist Jordy Hendrikx....
read full article here....
Less snow but better snowmakers for skifields
New Zealand will have less snow by the end of the century, but not as little as initially thought, and better snow-making machines will help skifields cope, according to new climate modelling by the National Institute of Water and Atmospheric Research (Niwa).
It was the first time a quantitative assessment of the potential impact of climate change on snow levels has been done in New Zealand.
Niwa scientists created three different emissions scenarios, which were used to calculate how the different levels of climate change could affect snow levels for the years 2030-2049 and 2080-2099.
They found:
* On average, at nearly all elevations, there will be a gradual decrease in snow as the century progresses.
* The decrease is more marked at elevations below 1000m.
Depending on skifield location and elevation, under a warmer climate change scenario, by 2090, on average, current maximum snow depths at the upper elevation sites will be further reduced, to approximately 79 per cent to 35 per cent.
The reductions were less marked for mid-range climate change scenario.
"Fortunately for New Zealand, we are unlikely to see the more extreme impacts predicted in Europe and Australia. Our modelling shows that the loss may actually be less than originally anticipated and we should be able to continue to make snow, even under a more extreme climate scenario, right out to the 2090s," said Niwa snow and ice scientist Jordy Hendrikx....
read full article here....
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