New Zealand’s winter home away from home

James Riddell, British Olympic skier and winner of the 1929 Kandahar downhill, wrote; “To ski, however well or poorly, is a reminder-whatever one may for a long time have suspected-that one is alive, and that living is tremendous fun. There isn’t any other game to compare with it in the world.”

And alive is how you will feel when you reach the top of Treble Cone in New Zealand’s Central Otago region. Zen-like vistas await from its 2,100 metre summit. The mountains rise straight up from Lake Wanaka and valley floor ,beginning with lush green fields rising through numerous angelic waterfalls and culminating in snow capped peaks that look like the hand of god has turned upside down and dunked, gingerly, in a bowl of icing sugar like snow. When you reach the top of Treble Cone you realise how lucky you are, lucky to find yourself in one of the world’s most beautiful places.  Continue Reading