Ski Trip!

For most of the term a group of us have been planning a ski trip to one of the smaller resorts, called Hemlock. We travelled over to a friend’s house last Sunday night (after picking up rentals on the way), then drove to the mountain the next morning. We arrived just before lunch, dropped our stuff and went onto the mountain straight away to get some skiing in for the afternoon. The runs were really good, with quite a lot of fresh snow from that morning. It also snowed a bit while we were there the first day. The ski lifts closed at 3.30 everyday, so we had plenty of time in evening to take advantage of the nice studio style chalet we were staying in, and the free HOT TUB just outside! We ended up spending every evening sat in there for at least two hours having a nice relaxing beer or two! The weather on Monday and Wednesday for skiing was really nice, with perfect sunshine. Tuesday was not so nice as it was overcast and kept sleeting and hailing on and off all day. I also swapped equipment one afternoon and tried out snowboarding for a couple of hours, and it was pretty fun…..well I could only stop and turn one direction but not bad for an afternoon By the end of the trip I was skiing down the blue runs without any problems, so all in all it was pretty successful. Also there was the Canadian ski cross team training there for most of the week, but we only found out who they were the day before we left!

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