A picture is worth a thousand words and, in this case, a lot of snow. We're in the middle of an amazing storm cycle here on the South Island of New Zealand. At Treble Cone, we had a big storm Thursday night into Friday morning, and another storm Sunday morning with some heavy snows and then sunny skies in the afternoon. There's a massive storm due to hit us on Tuesday morning, another on Wednesday morning, and (for those who are counting) a fifth storm on Thursday. At the moment, avalanche danger is pretty severe in the resort, so ski patrol is working overtime and we're all trying to temper the excitement of everyone anxious to head to the backcountry - a big task given the amount of backcountry access at Treble Cone, the large number of TC skiers who routinely venture to ski it, and the astonishingly large crowd that came to our resort today after word of our fresh powder spread.
The pictures here are from an awesome weather prediction website called MetVUW. They show the next three storms we're expecting on each of Tuesday, Wednesday and Thursday mornings. It's a big line up of weather and, if all goes well and our hard-working patrollers can help keep Treble Cone safe from avalanches, we're in for some pretty serious powder.
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