This past week some of the team got up to Ohau for a early season photo shoot, the crew included Harry Mcfadden, Tim Herbert, Sam Molloy and some of our friends from Groovstar Outtwear. The day started off at a good ol 6am myself and Harry went a picked up Tim and Sam and Joram met up at the house before we started the 2hour drive threw the Lindas pass to Ohau Ski Field the drive was awesome.
The roads out of Wanaka were very icey but watching the sun come up over the snowy hills was awesome, we stoppd at Harrys favourite side of the road stop for a quick break haha then contiued on.
We drove on threw the pass to the final gas station before our destination at Ohau.
The drive out to Ohau was awesome the mountains all looked set to go! we drove to the base and put on the chains and got ready for the day ahead.
The snow up top was amazing!! knee deep right from the get go so nice!!
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more photos to come.
I managed to wreck my board deu to finding one of the few rocks burried under the pow luckily i brought a back up deck up with me. Joram sent it hard all day sending one of biggest manuals down the mountain face followed by a epic shaka! Tim and same charged around the mountain having fun all over the show and Harry went to town with his skiing getting some good shots can't wait to get the rest of the pics up online soon. The krew were great to ride with and Ohau put on a epic day for us ! we will be back for sure as soon as the next snow dump comes!!!!
My time in Ohakune has come to a very quick end deu to some very shitty circumstances which i won't go into just if on the offchance a certain someone sees....
I called up my friends down south and they sorted me out with a job and a house so it was on! i packed up one flat and started the long 1556km drive to Wanaka from Auckland !! i set off prity late in the day because i had to find a shop that had chains for car for the mountains down south, its been snowing like crazy latley so didnt want to comit to the drive without them. On the way down i stopd by the the house in Kune to see the fam and say goodbye to Cam and the boys and then keep on going streight down to Wellington, my ferry was at 2am so i had a few hours to kill before hand, i rememberd my old friend Chris who i met way back in 08 when i was in vancouver, he was down there so called him up and sure enough a few hours later i pulled into Wellington and it was off to the pool bar for a few rounds and some beers! also turned out it was his 27th so HAPPY BIRTHDAY BUDDY!!!
I left Chris in wellington and boarded the ferry where upon i met two of the buzziest guys ever!! they were driving a hilux with a fridge a washing machine on the back and had a flat tyre on the ute! i asked them where they where heading and they said christchurch and then asked if they could have my spare! haha no chance of that hapning! anyway it was up to the lounge deck and we were the only 4 people on the boat apart from the crew so there were plenty of seats to sleep on :-D.
When our trip on the ferry came to the end they asked me if i wouldn't mind following them to Blenhim just incase the tyre didnt hold up to the 24hour servo there. I agreed and we set off, not soon after leaving the ferry all i could smell was rubber from their flat tyre and then BANG the tyre shredded off the rim and shot across the road and the boy had sparks coming out the back from the bare rim catching on the ground. We pulled over and realised my spare was not going to fit, luckily they had some phone signal and were more then happy to just (420 the parked ute on the side of the highway till a good time to call for help)
I continued on my journey down the awesome east coast of the south island with the sun comming up on my left over the ocean and snowey mountains on my right, I have done this drive every year for the last 4years now and each time the wow factor increases more and more, there is just sooo much to see!!
Not to long after disembarking the ferry i found out that the main pass leading from Christchurch to Wanaka was closed due to snow fall... this then meant a big detor to Palmeston under 100km from Dunedin which sucked soooooooooooooooo hard such a long drive of awesome sceneary dont get me wrong but such a anoyence when driving solo adding on a few more hours to the already long drive!
When i finaly reached town i was soooooooooooooo stoked to be back, met up with the house mates only to find out that we had no power due to some paper work mixup, so i went and stayed at my Brand managers house down near town just till power comes back! We ended up going for a few beers and then crashed out.
Hyped to have such a rad crew to ride with this year and the amount of snow that has falling is going to make this a season of seasons!
