The Remarkables Ski Area
Alpine ski area reached by a steep switchback road, with lake views from its base building deck.
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About this audio guide
This guide to The Remarkables Ski Area above Queenstown is about the mountain road you drove up to reach it, not the slopes. It follows the gravel track cut in the early nineteen-eighties, the decades of washboard that followed, and the summer crews who came back to rebuild the top of it against the clock. Best heard at the edge of the car park, looking back down towards Lake Wakatipu.
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