It's All About the Snow Base
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Nadia Lim Wanaka page 14 Out and MIRROR About pages 16 and 17 Wednesday, June 8, 2016 Pengi steals a march on the chairlift queues. PHOTO: CARDRONA ALPINE RESORT It’s all about the snow base MARJORIE COOK the get-go. ‘‘This year’s the first really good base,’’ she said. away for a few years,’’ Legnavsky ‘‘This year’s the first we’ve About 300 of this year’s staff said. Cardrona Alpine Resort staff have opened every single trail on open- we’ve opened every are new to Cardrona. Coronet Peak also opens on just three sleeps to go before open- ing ... The three weeks before the single trail on There’s also a large cohort of Saturday. Ski area manager Ross ing day. school holidays have usually been returnees, including some who Copland said there was 2m of While hundreds of snow a quiet time but we’ve had a lot of opening.’’ have returned to the snow indus- groomed snow ready to go. hounds are making their best emphasis on training this week Bridget Legnavsky try after working in the corporate efforts on social media this week because I am pretty sure we will sector, Legnavsky said. to impress Cardrona with reasons be busy right from the start this The packed base ranges Training has focused on snow OTHER OPENINGS: why they should be first on the year, just because of the snow between 30cm minimum up to culture, health and safety and Snow Farm and Remarkables Ski chairlift on Saturday, 550 winter conditions,’’ she said. 60cm, Legnavsky said. community, with Wanaka police, Area June 18; Treble Cone June 25. staff have been doing pre-season The resort is advertising ‘‘wall ‘‘We are lucky we are so high St John and other groups present- Join Cardrona and Light training. to wall powder’’ after 80cm of [1670masl]. But this year the snow ing seminars. Rail jam: Up Wanaka at Bullock Creek, General manager Bridget snow in late May, followed by two has come so low, it’s covered ‘‘People have loved it. I’ve got Dunmore Street, Friday from 3pm. Legnavsky said she expected the weeks of freezing temperatures Treble Cone and the other lots of good feedback from people, skifield would be busy right from perfect for snow-making. skifields and they have all got a especially those who have been 2 MIRROR, JUNE 8, 2016 stuff.co.nz YOUR PAPER, YOUR PLACE did you know... Sir Henry Wigley founded 1. SKI SEASON commercial skiing in Queenstown in 1947. FROM OPENING The weather gods have been good THE to us. It’s time to hit the slopes at EDITOR Coronet Peak and Cardrona! 2. STAMPEDE HOME LUMA. Wow. GAMES Like thousands of others I CONTENTS trotted into town with the family See them against the Dunedin Conversations ................................... page 8 on Sunday night to see LUMA 1 Thunder at Queenstown Ice Arena Whats On ....................................... page 12-13 lighting up the Queenstown on Friday and Saturday. Nadia Lim ........................................... page 14 Gardens. Out and About ................ page 16 and 17 It was just like an outdoor art 3. RUSTIC RUN & MT Dr Libby and Puzzles ................ page 20 exhibition in the cold, with some Sports ............................................ page 26-27 extra entertainment features DIFFICULTY ASCENT added on. It was thought Some of the toughest runs in Central provoking, clever and fun. Otago take place on Saturday. As the organisers have pointed out, we are a town that does some to do list 4. CREATE A This newspaper is great sporting and food and wine 2 3 subject to NZ Press events. MANDALA Council procedures. This was an opportunity to see Watch Tibetan Buddhist monks at A complaint must first and do something different and it work at the Queenstown Art Centre be directed in writing, within one month of was fabulous to see it embraced for 10 days starting Thursday. publication, to the editor’s email address. by the community. If not satisfied with the response, the As a free event it was 5. LIGHT UP complaint may be referred to the dependent on funding it is good to Press Council. PO Box 10-879, see some public money being used WANAKA The Terrace, Wellington 6143. bringing people into town into a Or use the online complaint form at Snow, rail jam and entertainment at www.presscouncil.org.nz Please time they might not normally be 4 5 Dunmore Street, Wanaka from 3pm include copies of the article and all there. on Friday to mark the start of winter. correspondence with the publication. 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WANAKA 136 Ballantyne Road, Wanaka 03 443 5479 7229814AA stuff.co.nz JUNE 8, 2016, MIRROR 3 In brief WANAKA BRANDING Lake Wanaka Tourism has adopted a new brand, ‘‘Wanaka NZ’’. It replaces the former brand, Protected Lifestyle Reserve, that has been used for the last six years. Creative director Andrew Englisch worked with the board of Lake Wanaka Tourism and community stakeholders to come up with the simplified brand and a logo. It will be used in domestic and Australian campaigns and should be on Lake Wanaka Tourism’s rebuilt website from late September. HAWEA HALL FUNDING Funding of $5000 has been sought to upgrade the Hawea Flat Hall. Wanaka Community Board chairwoman Rachel Brown told the Queenstown Lakes District Council annual plan hearing last week the hall ‘‘really, really needs’’ new heaters, electrical improvements in the kitchen and repairs to a door. WANAKA ALCOHOL GROUP The Wanaka Alcohol Group has started researching the community health and wellbeing ‘‘base line’’ regarding drugs and Canyoner Dan Clearwater. alcohol use and is keen to be part of a wider community conversation about regulatory measures to reduce alcohol- Film festival launches book event related harm. Group member Rachel Brown thanked the council’s annual plan hearing for MARJORIE COOK (Adventurer at Heart, winner covering a wide variety of topics, a $1000 grant last year and said mountain and adventure non- genre, adventure and locations. Fast facts while alcohol use could be ‘‘a Books on kayaking, adventure fiction category) and Daniel Clear- Many of the stories entered really touchy conversation’’ New Zealand Mountain Book racing and canyoning edged out water of Wanaka (Canyoning in ‘‘the remotest parts of back-and- What: recent meetings had drawn 90 Festival, speakers, authors, 17 other entrants to make the New Zealand, winner adventure beyond and retell some nail-biting parents and community leaders workshops, Words and Wine, old shortlist for the inaugural New guides, travel and poetry situations through vivid imagery keen to understand the issues fashioned story-telling. Zealand Mountain Book Festival category). and clever language,’’ Sedon said. ‘‘and keep our young people Craig Potton, Brando Yelavich grand prize. The book festival is a sister Chief judge Darlene Thomson Who: safe’’. (a.k.a ‘Wildboy’), Stuart Fleming, The $500 prize will be event to the long-running film fes- said all the entries brought Daniel Clearwater, Kyle Mewburn, announced in Wanaka on July 1 tival, now in its 14th year. emotion to the reader ‘‘in one way Derek Grezelewski, Lydia Brady, Lyn GODZONE ENTRIES during the New Zealand Moun- Co-director Mark Sedon said or another’’. Entries open for the 2017 McKinnon, Mal Law, Paul Caffyn, tain Film and Book Festival. the goal of the book event is to ‘‘It was a pleasure and a privi- GodZone Adventure race in Danny Knudson, Laurence Fearnley, The shortlisted authors are offer a variety of formats to make lege to be the judge ... In the end QueenstownonJuly1,with Liz Carlson, Angelo Georgalli, and Max Grant, of Ashhurst (Fiord- adventure, mountain and the three books that were chosen teams finding out on July 8 if more. land and Beyond – A Circumnavi- expedition stories accessible to a as category winners were ones they have gained a spot. Last Rippon Hall, Wanaka, July gation of the South Island of NZ by range of new audiences. that I either just couldn’t put Where: year, entries for the race, held in 2-3; Memorial Hall, Queenstown, July Kayak, winner of adventure The literature competition down or had to keep picking up.