<&>Wellington Corpus of Spoken New Zealand English Version One <&>Copyright 1998 School of Linguistics & Applied Language Studies <&>Victoria University of Wellington <&>side two <&>9:54 tut was that to do with the amount of alcohol people were drinking <{><[>or was it particularly dry <[>no i don't think <,,> many people were drinking a lot there <.>was <.>a a <.>set there's two fridges up there there's a normal fridge then there's the beer fridge <&>10:00 <{><[>and it was pretty full on beer laughs <[>word <.>they're they're always absolutely hung over when they're skiing but you can't tell laughs they're that good are they well yeah <{1><[1>maybe it's only like with years of practice and <{2><[2>they hit the slopes but then they say oh you hear them talking in the <.>k on the um <,> queueing up in the lifts about <.>how how awful they feel and how much they drank the night <{3><[3>before and whatever it's all quite gross but they don't look any worse for wear but i think it's quite dangerous i mean there's all those <.>little i mean <.>quite sort of like if you've seen them carry up packs full of beer and things and sit on the terraces drinking them and then you think you know drunk in charge of ski equipment <{4><[4>so that's why they don't sell alcohol up the mountain probably <[1>is it <.>they <[2>mm <[3>laughs tut <[4>mm tut oh yeah oh <.>it's yeah it wouldn't be <{><[>safe because <.>that <[>but i think they're changing it now no no they won't be selling it because it's um dangerous because it thins your blood out mm and you're more likely to get exposure well apart from that it's the fact <.>that i mean <{><[>drunk in charge of a ski it's bad enough being sober in charge of skis <[>yeah in charge of ski well i suppose if you're good enough but yeah i'm glad there wasn't many <&>11:00 i mean there's plenty of cliffs to go over by accident if you don't know your way round laughs even if you do know your <{><[>way round <[>oh of course further up the slopes yeah i'll <{><[>say just happy valley <[>and they <.>have i mean all they have is a few crossbars <{1><[1>and things like that so there's nothing to actually stop you you just have to know where not to ski <{2><[2>there's some sheer drops of you know twenty thirty forty metres <[1>yeah <[2>great laughs perhaps i'd better practise my turning laughs oh there's some <.>w nice wide bits where you can ski where there's no risk of that oh i think i might <{><[>stick to them for a bit <[>there's just an AWFUL lot of people skiing there i can handle people <.>people like the bits where they have <.>the <.>the <{><[>the rocks like on the lefthand side of um <,> knoll ridge tee bar tut like i'd ski down there on a fine day but i'd never ski down there in <.>white white outs i only ski down the really really safe bits in white outs because you can't see what you're doing laughs <[>voc word the white outs it's actually quite <.>good quite <,> good in white outs because there's not too many people like <{><[>practically NONE and the <.>snow and because it's really snowing it means that there's nice snow and if you just ski one of the smaller easy runs it's <&>12:00 actually quite pleasant and there's nothing too dangerous to do <[>mm how big's visibility normally up there or how long is it on a clear day you can see um <,> mount egmont slash <{><[>taranaki <[>oh yeah see well the largest visibility we got <{1><[1>over the entire time was maybe fifty metres <{2><[2>maybe a hundred if we're lucky <[1>oh yes <[2>oh yes oh <.>the yeah on <.>a day fifty or a hundred metres is good visibility for a cloudy day and on a bad day you'll be lucky if you get maybe a metre or <{><[>two visibility <[>yeah oh it wasn't white out it was just like continuous snow and sleet and hail and it was <.>really it was a <.>l little unpleasant but hey laughs what are your um was your new gear warm enough oh yeah <.>my my gear was fine hand <.>cold my hands got cold right at the end when you're still doing <{><[>the last slope <[>you know what to use those <.>polypropyle propylene inner gloves that <{><[>you can buy <[>ah i did have some of those except mine were wool not polypropylene oh but <.>i i didn't put them on except for tuesday and tuesday i didn't actually go <.>out <{><[>go skiing anyway <[>yeah <.>but no but wool gloves get <.>so no you can buy at the um ski shops and camping shops just plain white very thin <{><[>polypropylene gloves which you wear inside your normal gloves <[>yeah <&>13:00 oh yeah see my <,> goretex gloves have got um kind of furry polypropylene inside <{><[>because you <.>know <[>i know but this is just to give you an extra layer and <{><[>because polypropylene is a word it keeps you warm i haven't actually tried them but lots <.>of they look quite good <[>yeah oh but my goretex ones keep me warm oh <.>mine and they look very trendy yeah well mine <.>were were very good <&>microphone noise until i got up to um sort of the last five minutes of <.>the the climb up from the rec <.>c not the rec centre from tut the <.>ski <.>s kind of place area what did you do did <.>you did you <.>cli climb did you leave the skis in the car every night <{><[>and then carry them up <[>no we carried them up so you <.>had you didn't get to ski down <.>from i <.>s presume the skiers skied down from <{><[><.>the <,> the lodge to the word <[>yeah i was thinking that <.>i i skied down a little on monday <{><[>because um tut well i didn't have a pack or anything i was all right i just fell over once i think that was the first time i fell over on monday yeah it would have been the first time i fell over because it was the first time i was on skis on monday <[>it'd be quite terrifying laughs um yeah but my glasses were all misted up so i couldn't see where i was going so i banged into <.>some a couple <.>of of cliffy bits <.>and um well <&>14:00 not <.>cliffy large rocks and <{><[>fell over tut but tuesday i didn't want to do that because i had my pack and a hand bag as well and <[>mm oh you'd taken all your gear down to <.>the <{><[>down to the word <[>yeah i found out LATER that i could have left my skis and poles and stuff up there and um cam would have skiied them down because they were skiing some of the stuff like that down but no tut what did you wear for inside take your tramping boots up or what yeah but i was <.>just <.>like i wore my tramping boots UP the first night and then after that i just wore ski boots it's <.>bigge <{><[>keeping tramping boots dry <[>oh yeah ski boots are fine yeah except when you go right down the <.>s the snow gets inside so it's as <{><[>if they're done up fully oh i had them half done up but not fully done up <[>did you have them done up yeah snow goes inside <{1><[1>word in a knot before they <.>get you can get <{2><[2>then they word <[1>yeah <[2>oh i wasn't worried about that it's just <.>like it's as bad as it being fully done up because it just sticks to the inside and <{><[>you can't do anything <[>mm yeah i wear <.>s sneakers but we just go off the car park so i <{><[>just wear sneakers and i manage just pop the boots on and TRUDGE up to the um <,> to the bottom of the lifts <[>yeah <&>15:00 mm <{><[>tuesday mm <[><.>but <.>but but it's very pleasant when you take your boots off and put your <{><[>sneakers on <[>oh it's great isn't it it's so light and such a relief laughs like tramping that <,> yeah and tuesday morning i was going down i was just carrying so much <.>i i <.>went sunk up to my mid thigh at one point laughs wow that <{1><[1>i call a decent amount of snow <{2><[2>and how many people were up there i mean on <.>the were the queues for the <{3><[3>wednesday morning too bad no not the rope tows <{4><[4>i mean for <.>the for the lifts to go up <.>t to go up the mountain <{5><[5>word <[1>yeah <[2><.>like <[3>there wasn't queues for the rope tows really <[4>oh for the passes <[5>there was only one lift going that i saw and that was further up <{1><[1>from the main base it's the one <{2><[2>off to the right you know how there's two <[1>the um centennial chair <[2>or rock garden there's two there's one lower down which you walk down <{><[>to and one you walk up <[>yeah okay <.>y yeah i think the one you walk up <.>to yeah that was going usually they <.>run i think the bottom one's centennial chair and they usually run that and only the other one if there's extra people because it's easier to ski down to one that's <{><[>word yeah word <[>er well it's the one on the righthand side anyway as you look up the hill that was going virtually the whole time but the other one was just <{><[>going intermittently <[><.>was was national down hill going <&>16:00 i don't know <,> how you <.>call there's <{><[>the two parallel basically <[>national <.>down yeah national down hill goes off at an angle like that compared to the other two nah <{><[>oh i didn't see it <.>s oh i didn't notice that <[>it's a really big one it's triple chair a big one oh you'd have been too far away for you to see it from <.>the the <{><[>vic ski lodge <[>yeah well like we had enough difficulty just seeing <.>the the distant one ah well in that case <{><[><.>you <.>you although the national downhill's often closed but it's quite a good place over there and you can ski between knoll ridge and national downhill without any problems <[>yeah yeah the real skiers were a bit despondent because they didn't really get to do any skiing at all <,> but you know they got the cheap weekend well mm suppose mm it's not cheap if they don't get to go skiing <.>but mm but they got the chance i was quite pleased word there was no kind of demands to get out of happy valley the PRESSURE pressure yeah oh except i'd like to be able to on tuesday tut what did do we on saturday night that's right i was a talking about skiing ploughing so i had to draw <.>a oh i ended up <{><[><.>draw <[>that was sunday <{1><[1>night and it was snow ploughing not <{2><[2>ski ploughing <[1>yeah <&>17:00 <[2>snow plough tut <.>i i didn't know what a snow plough was and it was an action haven't you seen them up <.>on didn't you see them <.>on no no no no i <.>d it was <.>an an action i didn't know what the <.>actions a snow plough was so i actually drew <.>a a bull dozer type thing as a snow <{><[>PLOUGH <[>did it look like a <.>dooda a bull dozer well you know they were getting all sorts of weird things for it but they got it in the end it was something like you know <{1><[1><.>a a minute and a half which is about the worst in the entire evening but considering i had a thirteen second one for my first <{2><[2><,> and managed to get several others in two or three seconds <[1>laughs <[2>yeah it's so tough but i mean you don't have to draw it as an action you just need <.>to to draw something that <{1><[1>reminds people but yes i'd draw someone on skis <{2><[2>with their feet in a little v <[1>yeah <[2>oh you see i didn't know what a ski plough was though <{><[>well it was to ski plough <[>snow plough snow plough snow plough <{1><[1>snow plough oh <&>sighs yeah what did we do <.>on on <,> <{2><[2>oh that's right played um charades on monday except i was busy doing the dishes for an hour and a half <[1>snow <[2>word laughs that many dishes huh fourteen people can generate a LOT of dishes laughs there's two of us luckily i was doing <&>18:00 drying laughs there was ME and inhales lynette <{><[>that was the lynette who's going out with john rather than the other lynette who is doing computer science <&>18:07 <[>mm