A couple of days of bad weather was a good excuse for a rest, went for a couple of drives around Christchurch. Checked out the shipping container mall which was cool. An old greenstone carver we met there told us some greenstone tales and then showed us how to identify greenstone so we could get rid of a backseat full of useless rocks we had collected from our west coast greenstone hunt. Kept a few potential greenstone's to! 
Our next resort was Mount Olympus. The adventure to get to Mount Olympus is rad. Gravel roads, lakes, farm gates, driving across sketchy scree slope roads, all crazy scenic. When you finally get to the bottom of the road up you have to radio up from a hut to let them know your driving up, its super backcountry kiwi style. Upon arrival I could see how the snow was just solid ice, it looked terrible. Went up to the lodge for a coffee and after a hour or two it had softened a bit. After a couple of runs it started getting real soft and turned out to be the funnest lap, a few hits then a super slushy steep face then a few more hits. Ended up being an epic day and probably my favourite clubby spot I've been to in NZ. The lodge is real cool looking and the amount of terrain you could get to with short hikes is amazing. Can't wait to get back here next season!!

Next on our list and another place I had never been was Craigieburn. Craigieburn is another club field with a few nutcracker lifts in the Arthurs Pass area. It hadn't snowed for a couple of days so it was quite lucky it was super warm and the snow got kinda slushy. Craigieburn I found out later on has a pretty good reputation for being unfriendly. It definitely lived up to this almost straight away. Just as well we didn't go there to make friends with the staff. Anyway riding here was pretty fun although would have been great to get it on a powder day. Lots of long steepish slushy runs, goodtimes riding in the sun!

While I was on my trip to Australia my dad was busy with his bucket list resort tour ticking off all the resorts around Queeenstown and Wanaka. Next place our list was Temple Basin. I was amped for this one because I have never been there and everyone harps on about how awesome it is. We drove up the west coast from Queenstown, that drive is crazy just so scenic. It took us two days after visiting a bunch of sights, receding glaciers, taking some photos and stopping to look for greenstone which apparently you can find at the beach(problem is it doesn't look green in its natural form it looks like lots of other rocks on the beach so who knows what we found). Anyway eventually made it to Temple Basin. So at Temple you hike about a hour into a lodge to stay and ride. The lodge staff cook big dinners for everyone staying so that tasted amazing after that hike. Luckily he weather cleared that evening after a bit of fresh snow. I met up with Connor Harding, Piers Harding and Jeremy Town who where up for the day. Its been a while since I used nutcrackers which if you don't know is like the sketchiest lift system there is, you cannot relax around these things or you will loose fingers. Only ended up riding them a couple of times and then went and hiked a line and a couple of other features we found. Was a super fun day and was stoked to check out Temple although I only really got to scratch the surface of all the accessible terrain there. Hiking down at the end of a days hiking kinda sucked was wiped out by the time we got to the car! Next time I would stay longer.

I was lucky enough to get over to Thredbo and Perisher for a few days. I rode Perisher for the first time last year, the park there is super fun and reminds me of Snowpark in NZ, so was stoked to get back there. I was there with the NZ/AUS Dragon team to film a #weareframeless edit. It was fun to hang out and ride park. On the last day we rode the side county at Thredbo, the terrain out there was quite good to my surprise so was cool to check that out and try shoot a little Australian backcountry.