It was a slightly scratchy day at Broken River – but great to be out in the Sun. Thanks to Chloe for taking the video below. Looking at it, I can see that I’ve so so so SO much more to go to get anyway decent at this skiing lark. If you contrast how _non_ shaky her video is, compared to the ones I take… I’m definitely not just pointing my body downhill and pivoting properly. Still.. it’s good to have room for improvement. After all, it’s pretty much impossible to be perfect at everything all the time ;)
It’s also is probably the last day of the season for me. It certainly has been a mixed one. We had such a great dump of snow at the start of the season, but then it really did tail off, and then a bang again in late August.
You can sort of see it reflected in the Snowpool statistics..
Still, lovely to be out and about. Still, it’s not the end of the world.. after all.. now it’s into the hiking biking & climbing season. Terrible country this ;)
Finally I feel like I’ve done Matt’s overly generous GoPro justice. Damn it was fun fun and more fun.
Maaike did very well for her first time on powder… and last weekend at Olympus managed to get up on the nutcrackers – some excellent progress there!
Other than that, quite busy at work and looking forward to a proper holiday in a couple of weeks time! Need to get more exciting things happening on a blog. Oh, and Maaike and I bought a car from her boss who left the country – more to come on that later..
Had a great long weekend (my first day of holiday since Christmas! CHRISTMAS! something needs to be done about this). Anyway… had a great time with a huge bunch of friends down in Twizel. Michelle G did an excellent job of organising the (20?+) people. A big pot luck dinner was had on the Saturday, and much merriment was had by all.
Roundhill probably had the best skiing, unfortunately the day that I had my camera there is was cloudy – so you only get nice pics of Dobson (where we went on the way home).
Other than that, had the annual mulled wine & mince pie party. Next year we definitely have to tell people _not_ to bring wine. Or, at the very least, not encourage them to bring any. It’s slightly embarrassing to end up with slightly _more_ wine than you started the evening with. I mean, it’s a good problem to have, but still… it’s a problem.
Anyway.. here’s a quick run at Dobson. I’m unsure how to make videos in a way that doesn’t make you seasick watching them. Maybe I just need to get a lot better at pointing downhill. I thought I was getting better at that, but it seems perhaps not!
So.. this weekend off to Lyford (Maaike was away cross country skiing.. Michelle put a few pictures up on the snowpool photo competition page..
Anyway, while Maaike was off doing that – I got a days skiing in at Lyford. It was _OK_.. nice to be out I guess, but the conditions weren’t the best. Anyway, here’s a video of my first time this year on a nutcracker… definitely an efficient way of getting up the hill (and oh so much more comfortable on ski’s than a board)
Thanks to Can & Dan & Ian for a great trip!
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