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| Resort Reporter at the Burton Open | 14/08/2011 1:04 |
| Its been a jam packed week of steeze at Cardrona with all the top pro snowboarders from all over the world coming to our little resort in New Zealand to complete in Halfpipe and Slopestyle championships. The storm due to hit on the weekend held off all week, giving us 5 straight days of bluebird skies and 100% visibility. 42 men and 16 women (from across 9 countries) competed for the $6,000 first prize in the slopestyle. Jamie Andersons winning run included such tricks as switch backside 360, cab 540 melon and 50/50 backside boardslide on the final rail. The French-Canadian, Sebastien Toutant wowed the judges with his signature Toutsie Roll (backside doublecork 1080 melon). Ryo Aono sealed the deal in the halfpipe with a run that included a frontside 1080, backside 900 and cab 1080. He also threw back-to-back corks in his final run. While Kelly Clark pulled frontside 720, cab 720 and backside 540 out of her bag of tricks! Both picked up $7,500 for their win and 850 swatch TTR world event points. Bring on the Winter Games! Until next time x |
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| Who wants to be a seasonnaire? winner interview | 11/08/2011 11:57 |
| Who want to be a Seasonnaire? is now over! Thanks to all of you who took part. The winner was Dawn Deacon who wins a place on the Natives Cookery Course and a job with SkiWorld! We caught up with Dawn and talked of tripods and toffee vodka |
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| A very busy few weeks in Cardrona | 08/08/2011 12:56 |
| Its been a bit of a mad month or so at Cardrona. We were trained for our jobs (driving up in the vans up the mountain the muddy hill didnt fill us with confidence) but it became swiftly apparent that our estimated opening day, 24 th June, was ambitious to say the least. Two weeks passed and STILL not snow, but we were certainly not going hungry. Cardrona provided its entire staff with lunch every day, and not just ol slop, the chefs were cooking up a storm in the mobile cooking unit they had set up outside the community centre in Wanaka. Many people donated money for our food bank, as well as other vital accessories (Yes, we need toilet paper!) and we were lucky enough to have pity taken on us by our landlord and given a months free rent! Two weeks of going to the super market, then coffee, then the super market again and finally the snow came. And boy did it come! Cardrona managed to make enough manmade snow to open on 8 th July and the day after our fist big storm came and it dumped for about a week. One day 47 cars went off the road into ditches, fortunately no one was hurt but it just gives you a sense of how fast the snow came! Since the holidays have been over its been much more chilled but this week the Burton Open started this week and theres endless pros coming in and out of our little cafe! Bring on the rest of the season and the ride breaks! Take care northern and southern hemisphere dwellers |
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