Sea View/beach close to Mountains for skiing
Jul 7th 2006, 7:30 pm
#1
Just Joined
Thread Starter
Joined: Jun 2006
Location: Staffordshire
Posts: 23
Sea View/beach close to Mountains for skiing
I call to all those with a greater knowledge of New Zealand to tell me where (if at all ) we could live by a beach, and have easy access to the mountains for skiing. 
Jul 7th 2006, 9:27 pm
#2
BE Enthusiast
Joined: Nov 2005
Posts: 404
Re: Sea View/beach close to Mountains for skiing
Originally Posted by hanjan
I call to all those with a greater knowledge of New Zealand to tell me where (if at all ) we could live by a beach, and have easy access to the mountains for skiing.
Sounds a fab area, good luck to you wherever you end up!!!
Jul 7th 2006, 10:34 pm
#3
Melbourne Australia
Joined: Feb 2006
Posts: 4,169
Re: Sea View/beach close to Mountains for skiing
Originally Posted by hanjan
I call to all those with a greater knowledge of New Zealand to tell me where (if at all ) we could live by a beach, and have easy access to the mountains for skiing.
Kiwi
Jul 7th 2006, 11:22 pm
#4
BE Enthusiast
Joined: May 2005
Location: our own home, chch
Posts: 812
Re: Sea View/beach close to Mountains for skiing
In christchurch you can live by the beach at many points along the coastline (some nicer than others) and you're only about 1 1/4 from a number of skifields.
Jul 10th 2006, 4:03 am
#5
Just Joined
Joined: Feb 2006
Posts: 13
Re: Sea View/beach close to Mountains for skiing
Napier,Hawkes Bay - most sunshine in NZ!! I just went skiing at Mt Ruapehu about 3 hours beautiful drive away
Jul 10th 2006, 4:27 am
#6
BE Enthusiast
Joined: Sep 2003
Location: Brisbane
Posts: 977
Re: Sea View/beach close to Mountains for skiing
Originally Posted by hanjan
I call to all those with a greater knowledge of New Zealand to tell me where (if at all ) we could live by a beach, and have easy access to the mountains for skiing.
even auckland (by a stretch) as Mt Ruapehu is about 4hrs away....
Jul 10th 2006, 7:07 am
#7
Account Closed
Joined: Dec 2005
Posts: 527
Re: Sea View/beach close to Mountains for skiing
Originally Posted by newkiwi
Christchurch and surroundings
even auckland (by a stretch) as Mt Ruapehu is about 4hrs away....
even auckland (by a stretch) as Mt Ruapehu is about 4hrs away....
Porter Heights skifield, 1 1/4 hours, Mt Hutt (big although not big in the Europe scale) 1 1/2 hours, four small, friendly club skifields in Arthurs Pass - 1.5 - 2 hours away. Then there is the ski touring... big fields in Queenstown, small fields close to Timaru and Fairlie and Kaikoura. Note that these are not fields like you get in Europe, most people drive up for a day (which is good as you can wait to see what the weather does, rather than having to do it all in a week) and the access road is all part of the fun =) In the south island skiing is not a pretentious sport, but one that many people have a go at especially in a season like this one as the snow is great.
Of course skiing in the north island is great as you get to be on a live volcano
