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Coronet Peak
Newest Review: ... ''winter warmer'', hot red wine and lemon juice concoction! You cannot write a review about Coronet Peak without a mention of the Queenstown Winter Festival because many of these annual events take place up on this mountain. I feel another review topic coming on!!!! People come from all over the world to take part in the fun, the sport, the not very serious competition and the apre-ski that is experienced over the 10-day celebration of ski and snowboard sport. Memorable is the Dog Derby and Barking competition; shepherds and dogs are taken to the top of the mountain and then slip,slide down, anyway they can. Many other ski and snowboa... more |
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Coronet Peak, snow sport's crowning glory (1366 words)
by logberg - written on 08.10.05 (Very useful, 415 readings)
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Coronet Peak is in the North Otago, province of New Zealand's South Island, amid some of the world's most stunning mountain scenery. Atop the 5400ft mountain sits an outcrop of rock, in the shape of a crown, hence the name given to it by explorer/surveyor James McKerrow when visiting this virgin area many decades ago. Another, more modern pioneer was Sir William Hamilton who, with typical New Zealand 'Kiwi' ingenuity, put Coronet Peak on the map by manufacturing the first rope tow at what was the country's first commercial ski field in 1947. He followed this with the country's first double chairlift in 1962 and the first triple lift in ...
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