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Snow Farm NZ ~ photo gallery 1

The Snow Farm is a ski area near Wanaka, New Zealand, dedicated to cross-country and nordic skiing [including biathlon, snow-shoeing and tobogganing]

And host to:

The Merino Muster
Worldloppet Race

The Snow Farm, Cardrona, Wanaka, New Zealand
22nd Edition
Early September each year
42 / 21 / 7Km Cross Country Ski Race

Experience one of the Southern Hemisphere’s top XC ski events

The Snow Farm is also open in the summer for mountain biking and hiking

+64 3-443 7542

http://www.snowfarmnz.com/

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Lake Wanaka ~ winter’s evening

From the bicycle seat this evening ~ Lake Wanaka, Black Peak on the left, Fog Peak in front of the sun…

Wanaka evening

This first good snowfall for the winter

A typical NZ scene – happy sheep that have just been fed and they’re quite oblivious in their thick wool coats to the heavy snowfalls on the mountains.

St Bathans Range in the background
St Bathans Range in the background

The nearby Cardrona Valley and a weather change

We’ve just had many days of settled weather in Wanaka and in winter this equates to either an inversion cloud base hanging over the town [where the temperatures actually are higher as one ascends – proved by going up to a ski area], or the skies stay clear and we have wicked frosts…
Hawea River frost and sunrise

And it’s when the weather is on the cusp of change that other possible scenarios present themselves as landscape photography opportunities. In this case it’s warmed up as cloud with accompanying wind comes in from the north west.

For this image, just a 20 min drive up the Cardrona Valley was all it took to capitalise on the change photographically speaking…
Mt Cardronai