Club Hocking Calendar updated for this winter's bookings.

DMs post below combined with the trail of man made on the Perisher Snowcam got my arse into gear and Club Hocking Calendar has been updated with the dates for this winter's bookings.

If everyone can use it to communicate with each other to organise visits so we don't have to organise everyone that would be really helpful. So please have another look at the Club Hocking Guidelines and help us out.

Looking forward to seeing you all this winter!

Plans for the opening weekend?

Are there any?

Rick and Veka, will you be in residence?

Who else is thinking of heading down?

New Snowcams

With the snow falling this morning I had a look and discovered a couple of new snowcams. One at the bottom of the ridge at PB.


The Basin cam at Thredbo has been moved to the bottom of the T-Bar.


I've added the Ridge Cam to the side bar, if there are any other cams people woould like to see on the sidebar yell out.

Hopefully I'll be able to get my first turns tomorrow morning!

Charlottes Pass Panorama

Went for a drive up the hill this morning to have a llok at the snow that feel earlier in the week. Here is a panorama from the top of the Snow Gum walk at CP.

World Record Cliff Jump an Accident!

Here are the words of Fred Syversen from this thread at the TGR forums.

Hehe,

Somebody told me about this discussion (could'nt read it trough, too much), and I like to add a few facts, the rest I will leave for the film and the pics. I can’t give you any proof, that’s not for me to decide.

My ski philosophy is that you should always stick your landings, that’s gonna progress our sport! Going this BIG we’ll leave to the BASE jumpers.

This was the warm up run at the beginning of the day during heli filming, and it turned out that I missed the end of my line with not to many meters (difficult routefinding cause of similar terrain features ). I let my skis go pretty much into the falline and picks up speed instantly, and just thereafter realises my fault and that I will go out something, probably huge.

The mind works amangsingly fast under stressed situations; breaking or trying to stop was no longer an option, it simply went to fast. If I had tried that I would’nt write this. So that left one choice; go for it, and do it right!

For a fraction of a second I thought this is it, but manages to get in a slight right turn to avoid the cliffs on my skiers left in the landing area. Then comes the take off at an amazing speed ( it felt like that ), I see snow underneath, and I decied that it’s not over yet.

In flight I tried to keep a position as long as I could, but airpressure finally pushes the skitips up and you end up in the backseat. That’s what I wanted as well, because landing it anything else than horisontally was out of the question!

I had an ABS avalanche back pack, and for those who know, it has a little metal/alumunium bottle ? near the lower back, not good if you land on your back. So I tilted my body slightly to the left before impact and that probably saved my spine.

I did’nt want this to come out, but with mobile pones around……

Nuit de la Glisse Films / Perfect Moment Clothing company, producer Thierry Donard
Photographer : Felix St. Clair Rénard
Measure of the jump 330 feet.

For the skiing watch Free Radicals : Rising and Snowblind and Nuit de la Glisse: Perfect Moment ”The Contact”.

And as far as I know; I am not 42 yet, but hope I will be.


Fred Syversen

And here are some images of the Jump.

From Above


Another Angle


For scale here is a photo of the bomb hole in the photo above.


I can't believe that he did that accidently.