Felix is back for the ski season
Swiss ski mechanic and ski instructor, Felix Tischhauser, is back in National Park to work at Roy Turner's ski shop for a second season. Felix has been coming to New Zealand every ski season since 1977. It was in Ohakune in 1980 that he first met his wife Lynette, from Auckland. While Felix repairs and tunes skis at Roy Turner's ski shop this winter, Lynette will work in the shop and the ski hire section of the business.
During the last European winter, Felix worked in a ski shop in Laax, Switzerland and plans to work there next season too. In 1977 he worked on the Whakapapa skifield and spent the following two winter seasons instructing in the South Island. From 1980 to 1983 he worked in the Ski Rack in Ohakune. Felix doesn't come to New Zealand for the skiing as this country's slopes can't compare with those in his native Switzerland, he claims.
However, he does enjoy the "cruisy life" here. "There is more space in this country than in Switzerland," he says.
Felix is not impatiently waiting for the snow, he says, as he is already fully occupied with ski repairs and tune-ups in preparation for the season.
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Waimarino Bulletin, Volume 3, Issue 5, 25 June 1985, Page 10
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