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Yorston also drove overnight from Christchurch to be the first on the chairlift when The Remarkables opened for the 2021 season last week. “I’m still recovering from my freezing night,” he said late on Wednesday afternoon. “It’s an excuse to go camping. I wouldn’t hang out in the middle of a field if there was nothing to do. “Some people spend $300 to go to Rarotonga. I spend $300 on petrol to sleep on a chairlift.”
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Yorston has been among those on the first chairlift of the season at Mt Hutt skifield for nine years in a row.
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