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Scoop Images: Whakapapa Skiscapes
Scoop Editor Alastair Thompson is spending this week half-way up Mt Ruapehu, the largest volcano in the central volcanic region of New Zealand’s North Island. The following photos show a variety of different views of the skiing and accommodation areas at Whakapapa skifield.
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Whakapapa hut village, aka the “Top of the Bruce”.
Another view of the Whakapapa
Village, from the Hut Flat access chairlift. The lake in the
background contains water for snow making.
Rock garden snow-making
machines.
Rock faces on the
waterfall.
Chairlift approaching upper
mountain ski area.
The poma tow in front of the
cafeteria in the upper mountain ski area.
A view towards Ngauruhoe from
the top of the Far West T-bar.
Same view from the top of the
Knoll Ridge T-Bar
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Hut Flat and Ngauruhoe (viewed from ridge above
the
waterfall).
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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