NEW SKI-ING GROUND

Taranaki Daily News, 6 August 1932, Page 5

NEW SKI-ING GROUND

, SLOPES OF HERBERT PEAK. . CHRISTCHURCH ENTHUSIASTS. The Lyttelton trains and the Diamond. Harbour launches on Sunday carried 150 winter sports enthusiasts,Jwith their . skis, and toboggans, to a new snowfield—high up on the slopes of Herbert Peak, says a Christchurch newspaper. . There they- found a first-class ski-ing ground, extending for miles back to. the snow-clad hills of the Peninsula. For winter sports purposes the ground hpd the advantage that it could be reached in less than a two hours’ walk from Diamond Harbour. The only regret is that such a quantity' of snow is unusual'oii this part of the Peninsula, and that it is.not likely to be suitable for tobogganing, unless there is a further fall of show,* for more than a week longer. .. .*. . ' . ■ Though no new snow had fallen for nearly a week, the depth on the area where most of the ski-ing was done was three feet and over, with a slightly frozen crust.' From that point back to Herbert Peak (307 ft. the depth gradually increased, and in some places the fences -were buried, and there were drifts 15ft. deep. The result was that the slopes of the main spur formed a ski-ing ground as good as couldybe found anywhere. This was made better by the formation of the ground, on a kind of table-top with, a good rise at one side and a long, gently sloping.runoff, giving a straight ski and toboggan run of a quarter of a. mile, ■