On Magazine Volume 3, Issue 5, Spring 2012
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What’s On Wanaka & Beyond Vol. 3, Issue 5 , Spring 2012 FROCKS ON BIKES Upcycle Style PLAYING WITH FIRE REFLECTING ON AN EPIC WINTER Music! Fashion! Art! The little magazine with a big heart Lounge Bar Vol. 3, Issue 5, Spring 2012 4 concept 25 on foot Spring fever Two tracks into the west 6 on snow Looking back at winter 2012 26 on the rocks It’s easy being green 8 on track We HEART the 443 28 degustation Playing with dough 10 on location On deck with The Nomad 30 on screen 11 on the beat FREEZE TV Local musos The East 32 little ones 12 fashion Plantasia Frocks on bikes 33 on the page 15 recession arts Down and trout Crafty cuts 34 destinations 16 creations Like it or Luggate Four artists, four pages 36 on the beat 20 directions Track etiquette On the map 21 on off 37 on location What’s hot, what’s not The kerosene kids 22 what’s on 38 inspiration Spring gig guide Poetry The contents of On Magazine are copyright To advertise with On Magazine and may not be reproduced in any form contact us on: without written permission. Printed on FSC paper by 022 0188 314 or (03) 443 4629. Taieri Print, Dunedin. [email protected] COVER: Jane Barcello www.onmag.co.nz Image by WANAKA.TV Follow us on Facebook & Twitter onmagazine THE Joysof Spring When my mum encounters an overtly happy person, she describes them as “full of the joys of spring”. So what are the joys of spring? Right now in the Wanaka basin, there’s a lot going on that makes this season so merrily effervescent, it’s frankly cinematic. Just open a window or door and said joys come flooding in. The waft of new manuka flowers laced with a dash of thyme, daffodils and newly-cut lawns form a heady bouquet that tends to set your heart racing. Warmer, lighter days spur on a giddy invigoration that A beer with a story behind and a flavour to accentuate spring time. When the miners settled can cause people, like the nature on steroids around them, to burst in Central Otago they used rosehip as the main ingredient for their tea. The flavours used in teas and beer carry a close relationship as they both propel a certain bitterness. By using into life and get things done. In this issue, we’re showcasing some of the rosehip we combine the vegetable bitterness of the hop with the fruity bitterness of the the busy folk who make Wanaka the buzzy place that it is. People rosehip. Wort filtered to 14 Plato, 25 IBU bitter hopping, forced carbonation like Poilicious, our resident fire-dancers; The Nomad, dj/music Best served at 6-8°C producer extraordinaire; creatives Simon Williams, Gavin Key, Food Match: asparagus and blue cheese Robyn Bardas and Nina Conradi; and our favourite eco-warriors down at Wastebusters. These guys are the savvy savants, the movers and shakers that keep things interesting and make stuff happen. They say that if you want to get something done, just ask a busy person. Stay positive, look around, be aware and you too will soon be full of the joys of spring. It’s catching. A dry golden coloured 6.5% beer where we used a mixture of clover and ANNABEL WILSON manuka honey for the bottle fermentation. The malt and motueka hop flavours strike the tongue tenderly, followed by a lasting honey and hallertauer touch to the throat. magazine Wort filtered to 16 Plato, 25 IBU bitter hopping, bottle conditioned Best served at 8-10°C Food Match: lamb, spare ribs Editor Deputy Editor Design Publicity Annabel Wilson Laura Williamson Bridget Hall Juliane Bray [email protected] [email protected] [email protected] [email protected] Contributing Writers: Maegan Johnsen, Miek Deuninck, Andreas Eggmann, Mal. Contributing Photographers: WANAKA.TV, Jeremy Town, Ananda van Welij, Tim Pierce Based on the recipe of a Flemish classical dark beer, that has a full Be part of On Magazine... chocolate and coffee flavour. These flavours are broken by a fresh sourness and a hint of Kauri wood. Send us your photos, Join our Send us an email 1 2 3 Wort filtered to 11 Plato, 20 IBU bitter hopping, bottle conditioned stories or art. Best submissions online community. with your thoughts or Best served at 6-8°C will be published online onmag.co.nz suggestions. Food Match: venison, goat or in the mag. Twitter, Facebook [email protected] onmagazine Snow Park NZ 1. What’s been new this year? The first annual Burton ‘High Fives’ snowboarding competition. Pipe and Slopestyle. Presented by WINTER 2012 The On girls caught up with the crew at our local MINI, the four-day invitational snowboarding event attracted over sixty of the world’s top mountains for a look back at the best of the season. snowboarders. Was it 2. Season highlight so far? Ten YEAHS at Snow Park! The entire season in itself is a highlight. Awesome team, sunny days, night riding, girls nights, ripping grommets, happy good faces, good music, yummy food and coffee in Ananda Van Welij the Woolshed (and of course Ka Pie Cafe). 3. Peter Adam ‘Earl’ Crooke at Snow Park NZ What’s on for spring? Perfect time to for you? Cardrona photos: supplied come ride or to learn new tricks in the forgiving cardrona snow. The park is built to perfection, the days 4. Soundtrack of the season? Ka Pie are getting longer and the crowds are getting Cafe crew LOVE Azealia Banks: ‘212’ AND 1. What’s been new this year? New for the 2012 season was the RFID ticketing system. It has smaller! The sunsets are killer. ‘Wildfire’ by SBTRKT ft.Little Dragon. meant that our guests can go straight to lift and track their vertical miles and ski days as well as being able to top their passes up online! Snow farm 2. Season highlight so far? It’s always hard to pick just one highlight, but it was really exciting 1. to see the Olympic halfpipe open on a bluebird day and the influx of pro athletes here to train. This What’s been new this year? Pisa also coincided with some of the best conditions of the season. Alpine Charitable Trust has taken over the 3. management of Snow Farm. What’s on for spring? We still have lots to come this spring at Cardrona including the FIS 2. Freeski & Snowboard World Cup halfpipe events, the Dynastar Ski Masters and the Snow Sports Season highlight so far? Getting snow and on snow, dance parties to Lady Gaga! New Zealand Junior Nationals. 3. 4. Soundtrack of the season? Bob Marley, Sun is Shining. “Sun is shining and the weather is sweet, What’s on for spring? Spring Pass, $100 make you want to move your dancing feet”. Soooo many sunny beautiful days so far this season… or $150 including equipment, conditions apply, starts September 1. TREBLE CONE 3. What’s on for spring? Knives at Noon, ‘Handshake of the Heartache’. 1. What’s been new this year? Once again the mission wow Mother Nature is full of surprises! Last year the Home Basin was the place to be, this year it’s all about the 1. What’s been new this year? Organising Saddle!! We’ve been super lucky have had great coverage a series of three events: The Introduction and conditions out there all season! 2. to Touring and Backcountry Skills courses Season highlight so far? Weeks of sunshine then for women based at Snow Farm, the side of some awesome top ups of snow. The Summit slopes and Cardrona and the back of Treble Cone. Motutapu Chutes have been THE place to be of late for 2. Season highlight so far? Providing those looking for more of an adventure. 3. opportunities for more than 30 women, who What’s on for spring? We are looking forward to were new to the backcountry, to gain skills and lots more snow, spring skiing in t-shirts, buckets of beer confidence, meet like-minded others and have fun! and tunes on the Plaza. 3. What’s on for spring? 4. What song sums up this Soundtrack of the season? Mission WOW heads up to Canterbury for 4. Soundtrack of the season? ‘Sail’ by winter for you? ‘Crystal’ - New Order. Colin Boyd in the 2012 NZ Snowboarder a final fling at Mt Olympus ski field on 22-23 Awolnation. Soundtrack to Andy Bamford’s film Banked Slalom at Treble Cone. September. of The Cresta Run! onmagazine onmagazine DIGGING THE FOUR FOUR THREE The mountain biking in Wanaka is awesome, and to thank for it we have a number of volunteers who over the years have spent their spare time digging, hoeing, pruning and raking so that we can spend our spare time riding. Three such blokes are Dan Haydon, Julian all building in Sticky, and the Four Four Three Thompson and Tristan Muirhead, the core moved on to working on a downhill track up members of the Four Four Three, a group of the Cardrona Valley, on terrain near the Snow resident guys-on-shovels largely responsible for Farm/Snow Park road. In 2008 the ‘Dirt Park Wanaka’s thriving freeride and downhill scene. Downhill’ hosted the second round of the New Named for 443, the dialling prefix for all Zealand National Series Downhill. telephone numbers in Wanaka, the Four Four With families and jobs in the mix, the pace Three crew first started track work to make a has slowed.