Glynn & Jayne were down from Wellington for the weekend and we took the opportunity to head up to Mt. Hutt to snowboard on Sunday. My cameras battery had unfortuantely died so no pictures to show.
We had a few issues getting up there – mostly revolving around needing chains to get up the hill. Glynn & Jayne headed up the hill with Jaynes sister Sarahs family. They had a nightmare of a time as once they’d arrived at Mt. Hutt they then had to drive back to Ashburton (40km or so away) to buy chains as no one was allowed up the hill without them.
We didn’t fare much better as Dave and I piled into Graham and Myras van (along with Matt & Silke) and Annee-the-vanee did very well getting most of the way up the hill before the chains died. They’d lent the chains to some friends who had used them on a car with smaller tyres and they’d been damaged.
I was a complete wuss and stayed in the car while Graham, Dave and Matt (the real men) went outside in high winds (and blown snow) to try and fix it. They did an excellent job (with a little help from some of the Mt. Hutt personnel) and we got up to the ski field at about 11:30.
So took a 1/2 day pass and boarded from 12:15->4pm. I was pretty tired by the end of it – and really had a great day. Glynn was boarding really really well – in fact everyone was really. I spent most of the day trying to board backwards with varying amounts of success… still, getting there. :)
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