Posted on 09/04/2013 3:06:10 PM PDT by Jack Hydrazine
HUNDREDS of skiers are stuck on New Zealand's Mt. Hutt after freak weather forced its closure.
A combination of drifting snow and poor visibility has been blamed. While ski area management were aware of an approaching front and poor forecast, the situation deteriorated quickly, Mt Hutt ski area manager James McKenzie said.
There are 316 people trapped on the mountain.
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“We Kiwis don’t deserve this climate disruption!!! Don’t you know we’re eco-freaks??!?”
Fun campout, burn the furniture, good memories.
They can always appeal to Jabba for help.
They’ll be fine...until the beer runs out.
” Donner! party of 300!” your table is ready...
Al Gore tweeted that winter never came to New Zealand.
The winter that never came: New Zealand experiences its hottest winter on record
https://twitter.com/algore/status/374913063298039808
My wife and I god stuck at Grand Targhee one anniversary.
Three feet of fresh powder in the parking lot.
All roads closed.
We had Bloody Mary’s and a wonderful breakfast.
Hit the slopes at 12:45, our first chair lift ride we expected to be let out at the 1/2 way point as the ski patrol was blasting drifts. As we approached the 1/2 way point, the Lift Operator said: ‘They just opened the top of the mountain! You’re first chair!’
That was a fun day of skiing!
These folks will be fine!
LOL that reminds me of a true story. I was skiing in a Sierra storm and met a guy from down under who was also a "powder nazi". We made a couple of runs as I showed him some of my favorite routes for untracked snow. We decided to hit the lodge and grab a beer.
We shook the snow off and when the barkeep came over I decided to be cool and order us a pitcher. When I did my new friend looked at the bartender and said, "That sounds good. I'll have one too!"
We know what happened the last time Jabba trapped somebody in ice!
Who cares about the skiers. Will this, in any way, affect the release of the second Hobbit movie?
It’s already in the can, the work’s being done in California.
Mind you, they had a some signs that marked the recession on the hike up to that point, "The terminus was here in 1931", etc.
whats the source on those charts?
Only for the skiers on the mountain!
” Donner! party of 283!” your table is ready...
The population of New Zealand will probably increase a bit.
Being stuck in a ski lodge is not the worst thing that could happen to a bunch of people, as long as there’s heat, food, and toilet paper.
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