Coronet Peak Triple Line

• August
• 5

10:30 pm snowboarding

On Monday Nick Hein , Nick Brown , Jake Koia,Myself  and a handful of Canadians went up to Coronet Peak to film for ‘Down Under Diaries’ which is a New Zealand Snowboarding show that is watched worldwide on  snowboarding .transworld.net .

5pm on Sunday evening  , Ryan Campbell was taken out and buried two metres under the snow in a size 2.5 slide at coronet peak. Unfortunately Ryan Passed away shortly after being airlifted to the lakes district hospital.

The Back-country wasn’t open when the crew drove into the parking lot at coronet. We rode the Quad chair up and ventured down The Exchange which is on the opposite side of the resort to where the slide occurred. There was a double line [two jumps in a row] that we were familiar with,and some of the crew wanted to build a larger step-down which was  higher up from the double line making a triple line.

Most of the time this would mean a lot of hiking and in most cases you’d probably want a sled to tow you back to the top ,but not the coronet triple line , you can access it from the chair , no hiking required.

  The first larger jump was a step down[the landing drops away ,little hang-time] into powder  .Then you had to ride along the nearby ridge line and drop off a small cornice into a lofty final booter which generally sent us upside down .If you check out the second pic you can see the line .We got a bunch of footage but no riding pics ,you’ll just have to watch ‘Down Under Diaries’

‘Down Under Diaries’        -     snowboarding.transworld.net