The Hutt
Well, Keith and I were going to do a second snow cat day, but we
started thinking we might like to join the rest of the group at
was made for us when we were told that winds were too high to do the
heli ride up.
A group of us drove the hour or more to Mt. Hutt. I have to say that
the access road, as with almost all of them on the trip, was dirt and
gravel, but this one was the worst we had gone on by a long shot. At
Treble Cone there was some
slim track and a one lane path at one point, but that was nice
compared to the Hutt road.
We got to the mountain and warmed up and and did our first ride. Even
on the chair lift ride up we could tell the snow was pretty crappy.
There were rocks sticking up in places and pebbles in parts of the
groomed fields. It was pretty icy at the top and the snow was okay
towards the bottom. Had the snow cat not been canceled and I had
chosen to goto Mt. Hutt I probably would have been very pissed with
myself.
As it was this was the end of the trip and I was pretty beat. Keith
and I did three runs with Alain and called it quits. I ended up
tagging a rock on the last run and put a gouge in my board I’ll now
have to repair. Oh well, that’s the way it goes.
