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Scoop Images: Snowy Mountains High
Some new pictures (taken on Scoop's new S7000 Fuji Finepix camera) from Mt Ruapehu which is presently experiencing one of its best ski-seasons for several years. Both Turoa and Whakapapa skifields are operating from top to bottom with huge snow bases as these images indicate. Images by Alastair Thompson.
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Whakapapa's huge breadth can be seen in this image of the mountain
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The bottom of the Turoa field has
plenty of snow too…
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Mt Ngaruahoe as seen from Whakapapa's
far west
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A closeup image of the
snow encrusted
Pinnacles
Alastair Thompson
Scoop Publisher
Alastair Thompson is the co-founder of Scoop. He is of Scottish and Irish extraction and from Wellington, New Zealand. Alastair has 24 years experience in the media, at the Dominion, National Business Review, North & South magazine, Straight Furrow newspaper and online since 1997. He is the winner of several journalism awards for business and investigative work.
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