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Info on NZ ski resorts

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F5*
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I want to spend a season in beautiful New Zealand.  Im hoping you can help me out with some info.  Im looking for a resort with wicked off piste/back country acess.  Basically the steepest and snowiest resortwith the smallest lift lines. 

I'll need a place to live too, thinking about renting a caravan.  Any suggestions or know how much it is or rent in a house would be?

And I would have to get a job.  Im a ski instructor, and I coach park and freestyle.  But I would take up any job basically.  Can a canadian get a job easily? and any idea on wages (minimum wage?)?

Thanks

Jah Bless

Jan 11 2010 12:51PM
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carbon.pulse
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For the smallest lift lines and steepest gnarliest terrain you cant go past the club fields in nz.

Hit up a license to chill pass for that. http://www.chillout.co.nz

But if you want a solid job and still be able to ski the club fields you would want to look into a job at Mt Hutt, http://www.nzski.com. Or porters, http://www.skiporters.co.nz

or you could look further down south and work at Cardrona, Snowpark Treble Cone etc.

Hit me up with a PM if you want more info or just PM anyone else who's in the Kiwi cult.
Jan 11 2010 9:53PM
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HeathR
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Off the fields down south Treblecone def has the best snow and terrain.
Feb 6 2010 11:25AM
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Rosbif
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TC def has the best terrain out of the major resorts, they have a ski school where it's not too hard to get jobs either. No park there though, and sometimes the conditions in NZ really make the park where you want to be. I work at Remarks and really like it, bit smaller than TC but a sick park as well.
Mar 8 2010 7:39PM
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toominator
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are ya coming back again this season?
Mar 9 2010 8:13PM
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Rosbif
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Yeah man, you going to be about much?
Mar 10 2010 4:21AM
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toominator
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Yeah for sure, I'll be up there as much as work lets me

Are you in japan now? It looks so sick over there
Mar 10 2010 3:36PM
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AndrewNZ
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Four Main locations to ski: (may be wrong on some south island resorts)
Auckland - Snowplanet. Inside ski hill, has a small park but is sick to train.

Mt Ruapehu/Ohakune ( interior north island ) - and has two resorts Turoa/Whakapapa. Both recruit alot of foreigners, should apply right now cause jobs are filling quickly if not already.
www.mtruapehu.co.nz

Christchurch Area (Middle of south island) - Mt Hutt, a few club fields and a few others i cant name. Is sick, most of these are smallish fields with club fields limited to 1-2 chairs.

Wanaka/Queenstown -south NZ.
Has the three main fields in Wanaka Cardrona/snowpark/Treble Cone that has sick backcountry and park. and some club fields north of wanaka e.g Ohau etc.
Queenstown has places like Remarkables/Coronet Peak/ and some others i dunno the names.

Anyway, all places hire foreigners except maybe club fields but you wont want to work there. Thats a summary, it may be flawwed.
Mar 11 2010 10:20PM
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Rosbif
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Sweet man, see you there! Yeah I'm in Japan, it's been a great season, so much snow.  Shitty today though, windy and warm :(

Remarks got snow yesterday which is pretty cool.
Mar 11 2010 11:43PM
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MasterOz
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best snow is in canterbury. for backcountry go to Temple basin, Craigieburn, or Broken River.
Mar 18 2010 11:22PM
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