Sep
7
Last week just flew by. Hope you didn’t miss me too much!
I seemed to spend most of the week getting ready for the weekend. The man, the kids and I took off for a day’s skiing on one of New Zealand’s active volcanoes. Mt Ruapehu is host to two commercial and one club ski field, and serves the whole of the North Island, so is very popular.
hand basin and shower head
We stayed at the Ohakune Top 10 Holiday Park, very nice and with an amazing bathroom (the kids loved the hand basin, which consisted of concave glass plate from which water spilled in a waterfall down into the one piece glass basin), and the square, flat shower head which rained down on them.
Snow blows off tops of Mt Ruapehu, Turoa ski field
Ohakune is just at the bottom of the access road to Turoa, the field we wanted to ski at, but unfortunately high winds spoiled our chances there. We drove up for a look on Saturday, but left again as most of the field was closed.
Pottering about at Whakapapa ski field, Mt Ruapehu
The weather report on Sunday morning was for more of the same, so we packed up at great speed and took off around the mountain to Whakapapa, which is almost directly opposite Turoa. As expected, it was sheltered and we had the most glorious day pottering about on the slopes.
The kids tried snowboarding and enjoyed themselves, especially my boy who spent his whole time going up and down the learners’. We are planning a week-long assault on the South Island fields next year!
Tags: away without leave, skiing