The 1000 Day Holiday

I arrived in Auckland 00:20 Saturday morning. picked up my hire car and was on the motorway at 1am.

Arrived at Ohakune 5am. The next lesson being that its pretty much impossible to sleep comfortably in a hatchback!

A full day boarding, the afternoon being spent out west on turoa hitting a kicker with Jamos Dave & Mike.

Sunday we had a few runs and 11:30 we started the hike for the summit. 475m vertical & 1:15 later we sat atop the volcano summit. (highest point in the North Island)

We waited around in the hope of the clouds lifting/dropping so we could see the crater lake etc. but after an hour and a half called it quits and headed down the front face, then over and down the glacier enjoying fresh lines and great conditions.
Trail Map

Low and behold when we got back to the lifts the mountain was completely clear. :{

We then headed out west to the lahar chute. Mike hit the waterfall again, and was lucky to make the hole at the bottom by about a foot!

standing above the waterfall, one of the Jeremys took his board off and proceeded to loose grip and watch it plummet into said waterfall hole. Mike ended venturing into the waterfall to retrieve.

See pics, as its pretty self explanatory
what an adventure.
Turoa Oct o5 Pics