Opening Day report from Turoa

Our North Island roving reporter Kingsley has sent thru a report on Turoa's opening day action, read on

Hi Matt,
As planned 3 mates and myself headed off from Levin at 6am on Saturday to
hit Turoa on it's opening day. The travel up to the mt was great, the
excitement of that moment when our boards hit the snow once again, man, we
couldn't wait....Lucky for me the car has cruise control, so no unexpected
expenses from the cops. We eventually made it to Ohakune and had planned
to stop for breakfast, but the car wouldn't stop, it just knew we needed
to get to the snow asap, so no breakfast in our tums and we were on the Mt
Road. We finally made it up to the car park and got all set up and off to
the lifts.

Unfortunately the lifts were closed as it was blowing a gale and snowing
something chronic. We decided to head out onto the Alpine Meadow and
figured there were things we could work on. So once we got our feet back
after a run or 2 we spotted some hard-nuts trekking up the trail to the
upper learners area for a bigger run. We decided to join them. It was a
25-30 min trek to get to the top of the Parklane chair. It was seriously
blowing up there so we didn't head any further. We strapped in and away we
went, our first big(ish) run. But it was over all too soon. So the 2nd
trek begun. Before we knew it it was nearly lunch time. Anyways, spent the
arvo down the bottom at Alpine meadows practicing riding switch, ollie
180's, nosepresses and tail presses.
It was a good arvo actually, ended with a hour hanging round right at the
bottom on a little slope in which we built a small kicker and spent the
last part of the day on that.

All in all it was a great day, pity there was no lifts, but hey, trekking
the mt, hitting a small kicker, and being forced to spend time doing
things we usually wouldn't, it was an experience that had to be had.

We left the mt all in high spirits, keen and amped for our next day,
hopefully this time some top-to-bottoms will be run.

Cheers

~Kingsley~