More Memories Craigieburn
Craigieburn Valley car park on a typically busy weekday. Hamilton Peak on the right Remarkable Ridge on the left The photos are from a ski trip in 2009 but I spent a week in the Craigieburn Range in New Zealand every year from 2004 until we moved to Germany in 2010. The Range is one of my favorite places to ski and the club ski fields that dot the Range make it very special. Great terrain, cheap, and rope tows that scare off all but the most committed. If you look at Craigieburn Valley Ski Club, it is amazing how much terrain can be accessed with single rope combined with some boot packing and skinning. Together with the nearby Broken River Ski Club you have amazing slack country with very few skiers and all for NZD $75 per day (although I was shocked when I checked the price for this post as when I last skied there is was closer to $50) You can tour down the Range to near Cheeseman and on to Olympus, a trip I am very keen to do when I move...