First Day Skiing on Powder.

We have had some wonderfully rubbish weather over the last few weeks. Fortunately, while it’s raining in Christchurch, it is still cold enough to be snowing in the hills. So… with some encouragement from friends – I decided to leave the snowboard at home and see if I could manage to ski on powder.

I managed! Nice to have 60cm or so of fresh powder to learn in. It made the inevitable face-plants a lot less painful than they might otherwise have been.

So yes, headed up with Mark Adams (right above) and two of his friends Jack and Kerry. It was simply a spectacular day – definitely the best this season and quite possibly the best ever.

I also brought up some snowpool stickers and they’d mostly disappeared by the end of the day… which was nice. A couple of videos.. no GoPro this time unfortunately.

As you can see in the difference of styles… I’ve a *long* way to go – but, without wanting to blow ones trumpet too much, I’m *very happy* with progress so far.

Finally… a picture of the inclinator which Broken River installed two years ago. It saves you a 30 minute walk up the hill.. however, when we got there this morning there was a massive queue so we decided to walk up anyway. Definitely didn’t need a warm up by the time we got to ski!

So much fun. Looking forward to next year already.