Hello fellow skiers and ski-ettes.
My friend Ben and I went to Craigieburn today, it was a blast. These club ski fields are something else. The terrain is as ridiculous as you want it to be, the rope tows are a challenge in themselves, and the mountains are spectacular. In interviews, Aaron Brill, the founder of Silverton, says he got the idea for that mountain after a trip to Craigieburn.
This nutcracker tow is famous even in NZ because it goes around a corner. That's my hand at the bottom. Remember, this thing is hauling ass. Get it wrong and you have your knuckles flattened. Taking the photo was a pretty respectable feat.
That's an old Ford tractor in there powering the apparatus.
The goods:
