My understanding, New Zealand winter isn’t really that cold, right?
I already use my car as my base lodge when I ski in spring. Sure, it’ll work pretty well. Tail gate BBQ and a camp chair will do quite nicely. Who wants to sit inside when it’s 60 degrees out?
But at 30 degrees, it’s not quite so nice to be sitting outside unless it’s a really sunny windless day.
When it’s in the teens and blowing, I could use a fire place to dry off the wet gloves and balaclava, Probably take my feet out of the boot and air dry the socks. Do that in the car... hmmm... maybe.
Hot chili out of a thermo. That I can do.
Wait, I thought food/beverage was a significant income stream of the mountain? That’ll be kind of tough if we all goes to our car for lunch break.
Never mind, I‘m a lot more likely to only ski half a day. I mean, trying to put back on all those wet stuff and getting back out? It’d better be a powder day!
(as I mentioned in the other thread, I’m getting a lot fitter thanks to working from home and able to put in a couple hours of bike ride after work. So come next season, I probably can ski a lot longer without break. So maybe I don’t need a base lodge, my car or not)