For those of you who don't ski or snowboard i'm going to apologise as for the next few weeks this is about all we will be writing about... for those of you who do, feel free to read on... we've had some awesome conditions already!
Last night we had dinner at "Powder Hounds" restaurant... very busy as it was xmas eve so we spent an hour waiting for our food. We were both sore and tired from our first day snowboarding so had an early night.
I woke up at 4am ready to hit the mountain... couldn't really sleep when i checked the report and we had 15cm of fresh snow overnight! The best xmas present i could hope for!
Neri and i got our act together and made it to the lifts early this time. The mountain was dead empty, and as we approached the top we couldn't believe our eyes... untracked snow everywhere and nobody around.
I'm learning quickly that when they report 15cm it is more like 30cm up top. Our first run was straight under the lift at full speed on a layer of boot to knee deep powder, face shots the whole way down... epic!
I got a bit too excited and ventured into the trees and fell over... neri zoomed ahead. The call from the chairlift by some random guy was "Catch up with your girlfriend!" how embarrassing.
From there we went to the top of Crystal chair and tackled some of the steeper runs which were also covered with fresh snow. Once again, only saw one or two people on the run.
As the day went on we found more and more fresh lines, a few times we followed the fresh snow into some flat spots were we literally had to "swim" out. Luckily the snow is so dry that you can pretty much kick your way through, even when we were waist deep.
Not much more to be said other than this was one of the best days i've ever had snowboarding.
By 2pm we were soooo tired and rode back to our hotel.
We got plenty of pics, but in most of them you can't even see us through the cloud of white snow...
That's it for now, more snowboarding tomorrow and then a day off to go dog sledding on Saturday!
Hope that everyone back home had a great holiday / christmas / birthday... we miss everyone but it is very nice to be up in the mountains at this time of year.
-Jase
3 comments:
hi guys,
epic photos, looks like you've scored some killer conditions on a beauty of a mountain. had my most fun day here on xmas eve but now it's boxing day, puking down but super windy so only lowest lifts open and big lines. keep the powder shots coming, looks like you;ve been having a ball.
Lee
hi guys,
epic photos, looks like you've scored some killer conditions on a beauty of a mountain. had my most fun day here on xmas eve but now it's boxing day, puking down but super windy so only lowest lifts open and big lines. keep the powder shots coming, looks like you've been having a ball.
Lee
as lee said epic shots...that one of Neri is sick.
I've been checking the forecast and it looks like the snow will continue to fall nicely for the next day or so.
I hope you keep scoring the goods!
keep shredding the Gnar yeeeeewwwwwww!
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