This Saturday, I went skiing with Sarah and a couple of her friends she knows from work. This adventure involved waking up at 3:30 am, catching a bus from Canberra to the ski resort and then "hiring" skis and boots (known in more civilized areas as "renting"), which was all part of a pretty good package deal. However, the place where we were renting our skiis had an alarming lack of... snow. In fact, we still had to catch a TRAIN that went, as near as I can tell, straight up through a mountain before we finally got to see actual white stuff!
I know what all my Colorado and skiing friends are wondering... no it's not as good. It wasn't bad though, especially the second half of the day when we moved to the "tough" mountain where there was some actual powder and some nice ungroomed blue runs. It was really quite fun! The runs are about 1/8 to 1/4 as long as the runs in Colorado though, that was the main difference that I noticed. That... and there wasn't much snow. And it wasn't very steep... Australia is the flattest continent in the world, did you know that? I bet it was still better than any skiing any of you did this weekend! (Hopefully no one from South America or New Zealand is reading this...)
The other thing that was different was the T-bars! Fully half the lifts we used were T-bars, and I had never used one before. It's quite a different experience - you actually have to pay attention so you don't take out the person next to you and your legs don't get quite the rest that they would on a lift, but it is much warmer as you are well ensconsed in the Earth's viscous sublayer, if you know what I mean. Sarah attempted to kill me several times on the T-bars, to which I retaliated by taking her down runs that caused her to fall, quite spectacularly, many times. Good fun.
Sarah!
Pretty good weekend!
Pretty awesome, skiing in July. Thanks for sharing the pics!
ReplyDeleteLooks like you're having a great time!! I agree with Monica, skiing in July is pretty darn awesome.
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