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Back from Wanaka

September 5, 2007 9:35 pm gman NewZealand

Just back from an extended weekend down in the south island. We flew down to Christchurch, and hooked up with Jayne’s sister and family and drove down to Wanaka. The house was pretty excellent, and plenty spacious for the group of us. We opted to snowboard down in Cardrona, which seemed ideal for a family environment and relatively easy slopes. The snow conditions proved to be pretty good, and had 3 excellent days boarding. Patrick was down there too with his brother and sister in law, and we also caught up briefly with Carole. Fortunately Sunday morning greeted us with a fresh dump of snow, about 15cm, and spent the entire day with Brett absolutely munting ourselves (and my board) on a whole heap of drop-offs and jumps. Great fun, and mostly soft landings though ended up the day with a little concussion, dehydration, and sun burn. Great times and feel like my boarding is improving, but was slightly disappointed by the 40cm dump the day we had to leave though!