Winter Games NZ 2013
Winter Games NZ is one of the top five events on the international winter sports circuit featuring no less than seven World Cup events over the 11-day programme.
See Olympic and Paralympic medallists, past, current and future, compete in FIS World Cup events in Snowboard Slopestyle, Snowboard Halfpipe, Freestyle Ski Halfpipe and Freestyle Ski Slopestyle at Cardrona Alpine Resort and Snow Park NZ, plus the Paralympic Snowboard Cross and Alpine Adaptive Slalom World Cups at Cardrona and Coronet Peak respectively.
Snow Farm will host the world’s top cross-country skiers while Coronet Peak will see the superstars of alpine skiing compete in Slalom and Giant Slalom. Naseby’s Maniototo International Curling Rink will once again witness the tension and drama of curling as teams fight it out ahead of Sochi 2014.
As in all previous years, Winter Games NZ 2013 will feature adaptive athletes racing alongside their able bodied counterparts in cross-country and alpine skiing as they prepare for the 2014 Paralympics.
The Games also includes the off-snow Downtown Sessions festival featuring an Adventure Film Festival, live music and entertainment as well as bringing the action off the mountain in a series of downtown extravaganzas in both Queenstown and Lake Wanaka.
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Coronet Peak
Good freeriding resort offering some very nice powder areas. The resort management has a healthy attitude towards snowboarding here.
New Zealand
The pick of the Northern hemisphere countries with a great selection or regular resorts, club fields and some heli opportunities. They know how to build decent parks, but chances are you're not going to be waist deep in pow very often.
Cardrona
Okay all round resort