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Lake Ohau - Favourite Photos

Ohau Snow Field is amazing. It consistently rates high on our guest's favourite EVER ski field and you can see why. The view is unbelievably ethereal. 

Ohau means 'Place of Wind' in Maori. It can get windy but it compensates in many other ways. Anyway, lots of wind means freshly blown powder and fresh tracks all day right?

Ohau is a small commercial field two to three hours north of the bigger resorts in Wanaka/Queenstown. It has an amazing view of Lake Ohau - feed by glacial deposits making the colour look like something from a different planet (someone once asked me if it was poisonous...

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Posted By: Angela Schrider, @ Sun, 6th Feb 2011  View comments (0)  Add a comment

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