Book your trip now. It's official, according to the Wall Street Journal it is going to be a big snow year!  As regular as the phases of the moon, every May snowstorm bring the forecasting of a great ski season.  Usually it is just the local papers but this year is particularly auspicious with the worlds premier financial journal weighing in on the side of great skiing in New Zealand.

 

http://blogs.wsj.com/scene/2012/05/04/light-snow-bodes-well-for-new-zealands-ski-season/.

 

In actual fact we have no way of knowing what kind of ski season it is going to be.  But I can guarantee one thing, if there is good snow out there, Aspiring Guides will be on it!  So if you are trying to decide whether or not to book a trip this year, go ahead, tell your family you are just following good financial advice.

Severe Weather Warning?

Change in the weather?  Not likely.

Foreign correspondent Whitney Thurlow reporting in.

My computer receives severe weather warnings whenever the NZ Met Service issue a particularly nasty weather forecast.  Sitting here in the heat of Peru I am being bombarded with severe weather warning from the South Island.   As I watch a vulture circle the desiccated remains of some poor creature that died from thirst in the desert, the words "gale force winds", "heavy rain", " snow lowering to..." seem like some remotely familiar language.  I guess extreme weather changes, or even the concept that weather can change at all is something I will just have to take the Met Service's word on.  .