Incredible Views

I couldn't resist posting another photo from this morning, looking accross the lake towards Treble Cone.

Back At It

Greetings from Wanaka, New Zealand. I've been here a little more than a week and we've just had a decent size snow storm. It dropped several inches of snow here in town, which is pretty rare, especially considering that they don' have snow removal equipment for the roads. The photo on the left is a view of Treble Cone from the shore of Lake Wanaka, not far from my house this morning. Look closely on the center-right of the photo and you'll see the switchbacks which constitute the only real green run, so as you can see the terrain is pretty impressive. From a teaching perspective having so much difficult terrain presents some good tactical challenges, particularly coming from Okemo where, to be honest, we don't have a lot of challenging terrain. We'll be training on the hill on Monday, June 25th and the resort opens the next day, so the new snow has really gotten all of us excited. Up close TC is even more impressive and I'll look forward to posting more photos once on skis. For the record, the most difficult thing I've had to contend with since arriving in NZ has been selecting which photos to send to friends and family. It really is every bit as beautiful as you can imagine it to be.