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If anyone is intending to head to Central Otago this weekend (or are already there) and want to play some hockey or go skating with some other hockey players, please get in touch. I likely won’t be online tomorrow, but can be contact via text messaging … 021-297-2698.
There’s a bunch of us meeting in Alexandra tomorrow around noon to hunt for suitable icy patches
” title=”Smiley” />Here’s a pic from Idaburn over a week ago and there’s been quite a few days of hoar frosts up that way since then. Source Aardwolfs Natural Ice Reports[/url:3m1gynnr]
More information is available on the Aardwolfs Natural Ice Reports page too:
http://aardwolfsice.com/News/NIR/NIR_Page.html
[quote:3gmxzciy]If you have nothing planned for the weekend and want to do lots of skating, Glen and Kush are organising a trip south this weekend (3rd 4th July) searching for Natural Ice, for those of you who haven?t seen the News, Central Otago have had a hoar frost for the last 6 days, it started clearing today.
Ted has a van and there are some seats available, they will be leaving ? Very Early? this Saturday morning and returning Sunday evening, your costs will be: travel, your food and accommodation, the plan is to head down to Alexandra find some accommodation and the look for ice from there. If you are interested in going contact Glen on Hm: 03 3664833 or Mobile: 021 1146050.[/quote:3gmxzciy]We had some awesome skating on the weekend. 20 km’s or so near perfect black ice around Lake Poolburn. Plus good ice at Manorburn and Idaburn dams as well. We also skated on some utterly shit ice at St Bathans (not recommended).
From left: Me (Ryan Hellyer), Dave Patchett and Wellingtonian Alan Knowles. Thanks to Dave Young for the photo … http://chipofftheiceblock.blogspot.com/ … d-ice.html
[img:2bx5dfay]http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_i7ZBKG80iUs/TDBlUFMT0UI/AAAAAAAABgY/LyOLJCFmCng/s1600/boys+poolb.jpg[/img:2bx5dfay]Some photos taken by me on Saturday at Poolburn dam.
There’s occasional watery patches at the very edges of some of the rock formations like the one below so best to avoid sending the puck too close to them in case it falls in.
[/url:qxv83u82]David Patchett in motion:
[img:qxv83u82]http://ryanhellyer.net/wp-content/uploads/2010/07/dave3-450×396.jpg[/img:qxv83u82][/url:qxv83u82]My helmet cam found a new use as an under ice video camera on the weekend. Thanks to Dave Young for the idea, strapping the camera to his pole and editing the clip. The guy in yellow is Dunedin referee and SlapShot member Dave Patchett and the second guy is Dave Young from Outram. Also starring, but not seen up close is yours truly and Alan Knowles.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jkY2BnOFKYwI’ll move this topic over to the photos and videos forum since I seem to have turned it into more of a gallery now.
You put a camera under the ice and didn’t take the opportunity to do some puck handling drills that we could see from the other side? C’mon!
I don’t think I even thought of that!
If I can find a similarly good quality chunk of ice this weekend I’ll try it then.
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