J2Ski Forum Posts and Replies by MattSki_score

I can't contain my excitement for this up coming season!!

thats where I was going wrong!! I was copying and pasting the address bar of the image!! will sort it out when I get chance the Mrs keeps going on about it being our honeymoon! I can't stop checking snow reports to see if we can sneak some more skiing in.

I can't seem to post picture so I will post the links

Snowcrazy we are working for Silverski and our chalet is in the woods just above Plagne centre and just off the blue run into town.

We would definitely be up for meeting for a cuppa, we arrive in resort on the 6th December and have training for the first week and a half but after that would be great.

we are on our Honeymoon out in New Zealand at he moment and saw there had been a big dump at Mount Hut followed by some sunny weather, so we packed our Motor home up and set off for the mountains.

Mount Hut wasn't on our list of Ski areas to Ski in New Zealand due to it's nick name of "Mount Shut" but we were certainly happy we made the 4 hour drive across, we stayed the Friday night in Methven which is about a 45 minute drive from Mt Hut nice very quite little town.

As the birds began the morning chorus I was up and as excited as a kid at Christmas!!

We set off early so as not to hit any traffic as it was Saturday, I am so lad we did the drive up the mountain to Mt Hut was terrifying at best an unsealed gravel road which went across open ridges and may be not my best idea to drive up in a motor home!! but the views on the road up were amazing and when we finally got to the base station the mountain was looking in great shape.

not really knowing what to expect from the quality of the runs we decided to head straight to the top of the mountain and suck it and see!!


The lift was a fairly new 6 man chair lift not to fast but it gave us time to take in the amazing views from the mountain, we could see the flat green farm lands right our as fare as the coast line.

The runs were of good quality but limited in number not helped by the bottom chair lift which is below the base station being shut due to an avalanche wiping it off the mountain. later in the day they did open up one of the runs down to the old chair lift which was a sight to be seen to was a complete mess berried under tons of snow and ice. with the chair lift being out of action they were using a hagaland to carry everybody back up to the base station which was an experience.

All in all we had a great unexpected day of skiing and what the mountain lacked in runs it certainly made up for with views and taking the Motor home up was novel as we skied back to it several times for tea and biscuits and we cooked dinner before heading back down the mountain.

I can definitely see were it gets it's nick name from though as it's so open!!

It was reported a day or so ago that people were stranded up the mountain as the weather had come in so quick.

I would certainly ski Mt Hut again but you defiantly need to watch the weather and pick your day.

I have some amazing pictures and will post some if somebody can tell me how.

Me and the wife will be working the season out there from the 5th December so may be we can meet for a coffee and we can give you the low down on the area. :mrgreen: :mrgreen:

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