The day after Kyle and TJ left, I of course took advantage of the opportunity to go skiing up at Broken River with my friend Sebastian, who I had not yet had the chance to go skiing yet. I was also really excited to ski at Broken River because I had seen a video on youtube where you get into this tram and press a button to send it up the mountain to the ticket office and lodging.

 

We headed out early that morning with the intention to ski Porters. However, we arrived at Porters to find that the access gate was closed and were then informed that the mountain would be closed for the day due to avalanche risk. It was pretty annoying since we were one of the first car's there, but we turned around and headed back towards 73. Just before the intersection, we used our phones to figure out other mountains that were open, and to my excitement, we found out Broken River was open and we headed over there. The access road to BR was much different then the roads to all the other mountains as it was heavily forested. We trekked on up to the parking lot in Sebastians subaru, and then had a slight fail since we made it all the way up without chains, but then got stuck in the parking lot. We got out and put on chains, and then parked our car. The small parking lot was extremely crowded that day (by crowded I mean really crowded for a club field). The parking lot was pretty full and people were talking about parking right behind people and leaving their car unlocked with their keys inside and a note saying that their car can be moved if someone needs to get out. You gotta love New Zealand. 

 

Also, there were a few keas going at it right away in the parking lot, which is always a great sight. I got some quality footage of a pair of keas ripping apart a car.