Last week, from July 8 to 16, I was spending a week skiing at Falls Creek in Victoria, along with Noveta (mum), Andrew (dad), Lisa (older sister) and Leah (Lisa’s friend).
The first few days had shocking weather: it was so foggy, it was hard to see where we were going as we were recklessly flying down the hill with little regard for our own safety. But, by the middle of the week, it cleared up and left a reasonably good covering of snow.
Except for Andrew, who prefers to stay on the easy green runs, we spent most of our time doing the blue and black runs over near the Scotts and Ruined Castle chair lifts. There was a terrain park over there with various jumps, boxes and rails to challenge (and injure) ourselves on. The most challenging of these was a yellow school bus buried in the snow.
Out of 6 attempts, I successfully completed 3 and stacked the others. Luckily, we made it through with little more than a few minor bruises. Surprisingly, even dad didn’t sustain any injuries as he has in previous years.
We stayed in a lodge called Karelia where we spent the evenings in the outdoor spa and sauna, and in the lounge room socialising with the many other families staying there as well.
I liked to play scrabble and various other games with one group of boys (pictured below), from 2 families that had come down together from Brisbane; whom I went out skiing with later in the week.
From the top left, this is Paul, Kelly, Paul (yes, another one) Kathy, William, Jay, Harry, Mitchell, myself and Sam. There’s also another photo of the boys and I without their parents.
We managed to take some photos and a few short videos of our skiing adventure, which I have compiled into a short video (MPEG-4: high quality (14.1MB) or low quality ( 5.5MB)). Lastly, here’s a nice dashing photograph of myself and Lisa in our ski suits.