Went to Temple Basin a few at the end of last week – The crew consisting of myself, Vaughan, Mark, Rob, Hayden and Heath.  ETD for the mission was 6am which quickly turned into 9.30am that meant we got to the bottom of Temple at about 5pm.  Then the 35min hike in turned out to be a solid 1.5hrs, this is no ordinary stroll around lake hayes either – you navigate yourself up a sketchy path guided by a few random wooden posts.    Mark and I decided to carry all our gear up with us instead of putting it in the goods lift as there was a rumour of night riding till 10pm – BAD IDEA – If you ever go there (which you should) then NEVER carry your gear up with you.  Trust me you don’t want all that extra weight on that walk.  We arrived in pitch blackness around 6.30pm but too an epic dinner that was just being served – Roast Pork and all the usual veges we’re on the table and ready to go!   Learning how to use nutcrackers for the first time was also pretty funny – everyone got the hang of it pretty quick I think.  The snow was defintely a little strange as it had a fair bit of rain after the crazy storm that hit the week before – so we we’re pretty unlucky not to get the freshies but we’ll be back for sure to score it after another dump… The terrain here is soo amazing plus the laid back vibe of the place and mint hospitality definetely makes it a worth while trip – Some pics below from Vaughan and a few off my digi too… also a short vid to come in the next week or so… Thanks to Alta for the van and MASSIVE thanks to Ben at Temple Basin for hooking it up! – www.templebasin.co.nz – Go There! Yes thats a 3 level high bunk bed!… Definitely wouldn’t recommend the third level if your keen on a bit of sleep walking.     Soo good to come back to this after riding – all included with accomm – Chek out dat salad mang!  Hiking Out $10 buy in and $3 beers … Keen?Plenty of these guys around   Built this jump over a bridge and a river – Pretty Deace   The Goods lift that you SHOULD use where at all possible   The lodge at the bottom of the basin – a stones throw away from the lift    Hows the serenity…     

Download Diaries Downunder Ep3   Episode 3 of Diaries Downunder all done… Epic pow at coros and some of the parklife invitational – Watch above 

Another Gaper day at ohau lodged in the history books…  A huge night on the booze the night before meant most we’re lagging turning up at 1pm at the earliest some even hitting the 3pm mark for a solid 2 runs… Thats all you need really in that sort of attire anyway.  Some amazing steez going on – some to the point of being disturbing.  Dave summed up the overall best dressed champ (kreemz) pridy well I thought cant remember his exact words but it was on the lines of – “its like driving by a bad car crash, so disturbing, but compelling enough that you cant help but stare’ –  peep the shots below.               

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Above is our old friend asbostos part in ‘the cause’.  Hav’nt seen this fulla for a while now, I hear hes dabbling in the construction game here and there and no doubt still skating and snowboarding a bit… Below are some pics taken on my balcony about 5mins ago – storm came in from outta nowhere and just blew up… a solid 5cm on the ground outside in the past couple hours… EPIC!

Download Diaries Downunder 2 This concludes the 2nd Episode of Diaries Downunder… In this edition we hit up remarks for some freshies and finish off with some night riding up Coronet Peak… All in all a good week – Next up is a big park episode up Remarks unless Jim Hickey is actually right about the forecast this week in which case we will be airboarding down goldfield heights instead.. YUSS…All Photos Jeremy Thorns   A solid 45min Hike – Myself, Mark, Nick and Jordan in the distance…   All that clenching for what??  Gday Thur   Jordan Rehrer – Indy   Hyna Boosting   Nick Brown – Is it just me or does the shaka look like a death skull a pointy nose – Look Closely – FREAKY

First episode of this web series has just been uploaded to transworldsnowboarding.com – So far the comments (all 5 of them) have been positive – this one in particular is good – “this video makes me want to spend all of money and fly to New Zealand!!” – Grammatical errors aside thats a good comment, well depending on which way you look at it I guess!  This is also good ‘Heavy Mang’ … yes it is heavy mang… very heavy… Geez…  i’m rambling – way too long in front of this oversized screen today… goodbye…

These just through from ‘staff photographer’ – Jeremy Thorns… Off in search of some cliffs resulted in a dislocated elbow straight lining out from the stash.  Feret taking full advantage of a range of pain killers including morphine, Bedazlam, codene and nos! although judging by that last pic it looks like lix might have indulged as well…