Thursday, 9 January 2014

Day 13 : Almost Perfect

Today was almost perfect, all it needed was blue skies and sunshine. However, that was not going to happen. It 'puked' snow on and off all day, which made for great skiing when we could see. This morning was great, a bit cloudy (sometimes almost reminiscent of Buller sunshine) up on top but the further down the slope we skied the clearer the skies. The snow was soft, forgiving and constantly falling. Found a new favourite run 'Chief Joseph Bowl' - the lower half of this run was a natural half pipe and was so much fun to ski! After lunch the fog had rolled in even more and it was very hard to ski because everything was white and you couldn't see which way was up. So we came back down to the  beginner area (which is one of the best beginner areas in any ski resort I have seen) and had some fun skiing in the trees.
I have been regularly icing my knee, and because we have no refrigerator in our room we have been putting the ice pack in the snow outside our window. This has been working very successfully until this morning, when I went to get the ice pack and it had moved quite some distance and was unreachable out the window. We had to use a stock to get it back! Yes, an animal (fox we suspect) had decided it might be food and tried to eat it. I'm just glad the same animal didn't try to getting the open window during the night. We repaired it the best we could and will keep using it until we get somewhere to buy a new one. 

Margo for the Olympics!!!! I did a Marnie and disappeared into the trees for a bit and then margo says "that is so much fun!"  -  in the natural half pipe - then later on in the tree runs ( in the beginner area) but still tricky when your skis are three times longer than kids skis and turn slower and all this with a dicky knee! 
Hopefully maintenance have fixed our room thermostat and we don't need the window open tonite so I don't have to fight off the fox - he probably has a guts ache after sampling the ice pack - just hope he doesn't bring his grizzly bear mate back for revenge.
Great skiing and the forecast is for snow snow and more snow. Heard a guy talking about a rock drop off today in the grocery shop - I will need to keep " Olympic" Margo away from that, or she will start practising aerials!!!!

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