Queenstown is Snowless / I'm coming home

Queenstown, a beautiful fun place to visit, just a so so place to live. It's especially true if you have been waiting for three months for snow and it doesn't appear. Winterfest the big kick off festival for the winter season starts Thursday and there is no snow, on mountain events are going to have to be canceled. And snow still may be a few weeks out. The resorts have pushed back opening dates and have put their staff on hold, causing there to be a fair amount of tension hanging over the town and businesses. Which includes my two jobs more so at Quiksilver where the business is highly affected by tourists, Fat Badgers my new pizza place is doing good business but is still betting heavily that the people will come with Winterfest and well...snow.

But doesn't matter for me anymore I'm coming home early, these mountains and the snow aren't cutting it for me. I'll get a few days on the mountain when the snow does eventually show up. But my expectations for the mountains here were a bit too grand. I fully blame That's It That's All, though I guess I should have tempered my expectations a little seeing how all the NZ footage is heli. I'll catch a winter somewhere bigger and more powdery sometime in the near future.

I want summer and I want to be back in SoCal for awhile. I miss it. So yah that's what I'm doing I'll be home in 7 weeks, the first week in August. I'll see you all then!

The Remarkables from town w/ snow, 4 weeks ago

The Remarkables from town w/o snow, how it looks now

New pizza place. Stoned and baked, mmm my favorite, what a perfect match.

I never knew pizza skills would take me so far, god that looks good