Eager skiers and snowboarders in the south have just one more sleep until the country's first skifield on Ōpuke/Mt Hutt opens on Saturday.
And one man is so eager to be the first person on the chairlift, he's spending two nights sleeping on it.
It was a bluebird, yet freezing morning at Ōpuke/Mt Hutt on Friday.
And keen skier Harry Satoshi may look warm - although he's anything but.
"It's been bloody freezing, my fingers started bloody going numb. My feet weren't feeling too good [and] my blankets fell off me in the middle of the night while I was asleep," he told Newshub.
That's right - in the middle of the night, when he was asleep - on a chairlift, in 1C, at the top of a mountain, next to a very loud machine making snow.
Newshub asked Satoshi how much sleep he thinks he got last night.
"Not enough," he replied.
It wasn't only his sleep that was broken, but his one luxury item too.
"I had a third of a bottle of wine before it broke," he said.
Ōpuke/Mt Hutt manager James Mackenzie told Newshub snow guns have had to be used this year due to the lack of snow, which also delayed opening by one day.
"It's just quite thin and anywhere off the main groomed trails, you're gonna have to keep an eye out for the rocks hiding just beneath the surface of the snow," he added.
They are expecting about 1500 people on the slopes for opening day on Saturday, with perfect weather forecast.
And thankfully there are more staff now than in the post-COVID-19 world of last year, to cope with it.
"Staff were having to work many days of the week and not get days off," said Mackenzie.
"It was tough. This year's a totally different story - across NZSki we had nearly 6000 applicants for just over 1000 jobs."
Satoshi will spend another night sleeping on summit six - he wants to be first on the chairlift on opening day - but there are other reasons, too.
"The glory, the fame, the money, the women," he said.
"But most importantly to raise awareness for men's mental health during the cryptocurrency bear market."
With the future of ski fields in te Ika a Māui / the North Island still uncertain, there will be many more eyes on te Waipounamu / the South Island fields this year with Ōpuke/Mt Hutt the first to open.
