Methven Travel Blogs, Travelogues and Travel Journals

Well up at 6.40 this morning, the luxury of having stayed in a camper for a couple of weeks, no early mornings, the bus for the slopes leaves at 8am and had to collect Ski's and Boots on the way to the bus stop, well it was a nice 1 1/2 bus trip up to the mountains, left Mark at ski school and met up with Susan who was staying in the hostel, I couldnt have asked for a better ski partner for the day, she used to race when she was at school, so I had a top days skiing...hard and fast.  The…

Headed to the little town of Methven in order to do the Mount Somers trek. Went to the office to book our hut tickets only to be told the weather would be bad enough to make te trek too dangerous for us to attempt. Huh. Not having much luck with this weather thing. SO had a lazy day here instead and spent a night in the local surrounded by skiers. They all had on those really expensive beany hats and Ripcurl coats trying to out-cool each other.  

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We found ourselves a great, homely YHA hostel in Methven, a small town set-up for servicing the snow-bunnies heading to Mount Hutt. Big Al sorted us out with hire gear and we were ready for the slopes.   Much to Nick's despair, Mt. Hutt (Mt. Shut as I later found our from my uncle is what it is often referred to) was closed on Tuesday so, along with another 4 from our hostel took a one-way trip up the beautiful Rakaia gorge. We finally managed to tick the jet-boating of our wish-list a…