Hi there readers and interested folk, well its June and its snowing presently.......................................................IMG has had a busy start to the winter with a number of Single Cone climbs completed, and yes believe it or not a ski touring day!!!!!................................................. The winter snowpack is accumulating some depth, approx 1 metre at 1800metres...............................................After a period of 7 days of cold dry conditions the resultant depth hoar will be forming.................................There is ice around and with a wet autumn behind us I'm picking some fanatastic ice conditions will form shortly.................................................... IMG has a number of film safety days coming up and several winter trips on standby.......................................Backcountry ski and snowboard touring is the buzz round Queenstown Its looking like a very early start to the season so please book your trips with that in mind.........................Coronet Peak has opened already with an excellent cover............................................. For some very good ski and snowboard deals ring Small Planet Sports Queenstown 442 6393 for info............................. Thats all for now from the IMG team..... Spoon, Richy, Dan the man, Woody,Whetu, Thomas the Frenchy, Stu, Bruce, and non other than El Cap himself....
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