My time at Mt Hotham - and related experiences
Posted: Fri Aug 27, 2010 10:51 pm
G'day all
I thought I'd share my experiences since moving up to Mt Hotham for a season.
I'm sure you've all read about my radiator freezing exercise, always make sure you've got quality antifreeze!
So far I've enjoyed my time - more so now since we've got almost a record snow base! The last week of snow fall has been simply wicked. Skiing knee deep powder on Thursday morning was pretty much a life changing experience! I really need to learn how to turn in powder...
Just before the start of the season we brought everything we needed up in Ruby Scoo and the trailer I knocked up just before we left for Mt Hotham. The trailer carried my 27 inch tyres and Kez's "ebay special" hair salon.
While parked in that position we had some super cold weather + the wind chill factor, Ruby Scoo copped this:
I got that sorted and moved her down to the staff carparking. I've had a bit of fun in there and I'm getting good at accessing Ruby to start the warm up process while I dig her out, pics on that later.
I must say that I love driving on a snow covered road - the noise is different and when you can see for ages with no one coming, well, you know...
There's something different about living on top of a snow covered mountain - at least when there's snow, when the snow is/has melted the mood of the staff here is very low. But its the opposite when there's snow falling/staying/heaps of it (yet still not enough). Here's Hotham Central and the Mt Hotham Summit (just out of shot on left) under moon light about 3 weeks ago - using a long exposure the digi camera was able to snap this one:
^ the little lights on the mountain tops on the right are snow guns pumping out the good stuff. They're not needed now and have more snow on them than they'd probably produce in a night!
I've managed to do some 4wd'n and exploring with a mate that's local to the area since he was knee high to a grasshopper. Here's a video of our first trip out:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h5amnTrvXG8
The next trip out was down Omeo way. We did some exploring in a mine until we got to a roof collapsed section - we could've gone past but weren't properly equipt so turned back:
^ This last track was from the old mining days and wouldn't be there if the miners didn't build a 3 metre stone wall to hold all the rocks etc in place for us to drive on.
I thought I'd share my experiences since moving up to Mt Hotham for a season.
I'm sure you've all read about my radiator freezing exercise, always make sure you've got quality antifreeze!
So far I've enjoyed my time - more so now since we've got almost a record snow base! The last week of snow fall has been simply wicked. Skiing knee deep powder on Thursday morning was pretty much a life changing experience! I really need to learn how to turn in powder...
Just before the start of the season we brought everything we needed up in Ruby Scoo and the trailer I knocked up just before we left for Mt Hotham. The trailer carried my 27 inch tyres and Kez's "ebay special" hair salon.
While parked in that position we had some super cold weather + the wind chill factor, Ruby Scoo copped this:
I got that sorted and moved her down to the staff carparking. I've had a bit of fun in there and I'm getting good at accessing Ruby to start the warm up process while I dig her out, pics on that later.
I must say that I love driving on a snow covered road - the noise is different and when you can see for ages with no one coming, well, you know...
There's something different about living on top of a snow covered mountain - at least when there's snow, when the snow is/has melted the mood of the staff here is very low. But its the opposite when there's snow falling/staying/heaps of it (yet still not enough). Here's Hotham Central and the Mt Hotham Summit (just out of shot on left) under moon light about 3 weeks ago - using a long exposure the digi camera was able to snap this one:
^ the little lights on the mountain tops on the right are snow guns pumping out the good stuff. They're not needed now and have more snow on them than they'd probably produce in a night!
I've managed to do some 4wd'n and exploring with a mate that's local to the area since he was knee high to a grasshopper. Here's a video of our first trip out:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h5amnTrvXG8
The next trip out was down Omeo way. We did some exploring in a mine until we got to a roof collapsed section - we could've gone past but weren't properly equipt so turned back:
^ This last track was from the old mining days and wouldn't be there if the miners didn't build a 3 metre stone wall to hold all the rocks etc in place for us to drive on.