It takes a certain kind of lunatic to take two high-speed, dangerous extreme sports and combine them into an e
ven crazier activity. In Queenstown, New Zealand, it seems, there are plenty of lunatics to go around. Such was the spectacle at the ‘mountain bikes on snow’ event on Saturday at the Coronet Peak ski resort, where cyclists took a once-a-year opportunity to combine downhill skiing with off-road biking and race their (unmodified) bicycles down the ski slopes. There were thrills and spills a plenty as the riders tore down a course normally reserved for skilled skiers and snowboarders, all the while trying their hardest to keep their bikes upright. It was just one of the dozens of events taking place in the world’s adventure capital this week as part of the city’s annual Winter Festival: a week-long party that combines big-scale events with the sort of quaint community activities more typically associated with small towns. New Zealand Prime Minister John Key (who is also Tourism Minister) launched the festival on Friday night with an outdoor party and fireworks display on the banks of Lake Wakatipu. The party continued late into the night as the extreme sport guysnand girls bar-hopped their way around the town’s multitude of watering holes (Queenstown reportedly has one bar for every 75 people).
For further details visit at:www.watoday.com.au/travel/be-an-extreme-sport-in-queenstown-20090629-d269.html
ven crazier activity. In Queenstown, New Zealand, it seems, there are plenty of lunatics to go around. Such was the spectacle at the ‘mountain bikes on snow’ event on Saturday at the Coronet Peak ski resort, where cyclists took a once-a-year opportunity to combine downhill skiing with off-road biking and race their (unmodified) bicycles down the ski slopes. There were thrills and spills a plenty as the riders tore down a course normally reserved for skilled skiers and snowboarders, all the while trying their hardest to keep their bikes upright. It was just one of the dozens of events taking place in the world’s adventure capital this week as part of the city’s annual Winter Festival: a week-long party that combines big-scale events with the sort of quaint community activities more typically associated with small towns. New Zealand Prime Minister John Key (who is also Tourism Minister) launched the festival on Friday night with an outdoor party and fireworks display on the banks of Lake Wakatipu. The party continued late into the night as the extreme sport guysnand girls bar-hopped their way around the town’s multitude of watering holes (Queenstown reportedly has one bar for every 75 people).For further details visit at:www.watoday.com.au/travel/be-an-extreme-sport-in-queenstown-20090629-d269.html
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