Foggy skiing

Very helpful to appreciate sauna and hot wine aftewards.

... fortunately no one was injured this day.

Sir E.Hillary Pursuit centre

Exercising ground of the Sir Edmund Hillary Pursuit centre.

Nice for stretching muscles, practicing the balance and good fun after all.

But be careful to get away without injures.

Whakapapa winter crater walk 2009

From Whakapapa side, Far West T-Bar. 25-Oct-2009.

Sauna Dam 2006

Each year we build a little dam under the “Carrot” bridge for refreshing after RMC's sauna.

Normally building/maintaining of the dam happens in rainy summer days, when mountain tracks are not wellcoming and we spend good amount of time in the spa/sauna.

Ohakune locals are entrertained too by watching our runs in togs/bikini along the main road to the river :-)

Snow Mouse 2009

Unusual appearance of a mouse on Turoa ski field. Spotted on 26-Oct-2009 at altitude of ~2500m.

There were many more this day! Never saw mice on a ski field before.

Unusual clouds

Have you seen unusual layered clouds above Ruapehu summit? Real beauty! In Mt. Cool area (on the eastern side of the ridge) formation of such clouds ultimately predicts bad weather to come in from 4 hours to 3 days time.

4 in 4wd to Tukino

Somehow it happened that even being keen skiers we never saw Tukino. So one day staying in RMC, when the weather was not particular good for mountain tracks we decided to approach Tukino in summer time, taking a trip from Desert Road in our 4wd Mazda Proceed.