Cardrona Alpine Resort
Family-friendly alpine ski area with gentle groomed runs, terrain parks and wide valley views.
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About this audio guide
This guide to Cardrona Alpine Resort near Queenstown follows John Lee, a Cardrona Valley sheep farmer who was not especially fond of snow, and the late nineteen-seventies decision to build a ski field on his own station. It touches on a valley emptying of people, a road laid out before anyone at the council was asked, and a wife and partner, Mary, in the venture. Best heard at the top of the access road, looking back down toward the valley.
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