My Blue Heaven

24 hour adventure

Ugh… can’t… move… too…. painful. My body is killing me today. And why? All coz of one day of skiing at Thredbo. Man.. I’m soo sore.. everywhere. Not just my legs, but my arms, back, neck, feet… argh. Hehe but it was worth it. Yep, I took a coach down and back – about 15 hours journey, for 1 day of skiing. Call me crazy, most people already have.

So the adventure began at 11pm, Central Station, where my luxury greyhound coach departed. The coach down was an overnighter, so I slept (on and off) for most of the time. It was also nearly emtpy, which was pretty cool. We stopped at a few places on the way down, including a half hour break at one of those petrol station/resturant highway stops – at like 2:30 in the morning. We arrived at Thredbo at 6:30am, it was still dark! And abso-friggen-lutely FREEZING! The only thing open was the bakery, where I stayed at for a cup of hot mocha and some brekkie. It was nice, watching the sun rise over the vast mountains. Slowly it got lighter, until you could see the pink light of the sun touch the peaks of these snowy mountains, and melt the morning mist away. Beautiful.

Anyways, by 7:30 I was ready to go get changed into my ski gear, then headed down to Thredbo Sports to hire my ski’s. By 8:30 I was heading up a chairlift for my first run of the day. 🙂 Unfortunately for me, it was a really blowy day… so half the lifts were on wind-hold. 🙁 But I still had fun – High Noon supertrail was in excellent form! Nice and firm, with a dry powdery surface. Made for some excellent fast skiing. I also tried a few blacks, which were fun. My only mistake was to follow a pair of snow boarders – who told me they knew of this really cool run that nobody went down. I kept up most of the way, but the snow was pretty bad, and eventually I fell (face-planted), and lost them. So I went down the rest of the way, but I think the lower half wasn’t actually supposed to be a run, and was in really bad condition – lots of deep untouched snow, but the surface was all crusted over, and lots of twigs about the place, and my ski’s just kept getting stuck in the snow. I ended up having to side step all the way down with people from the chairlift above kindly telling me it wasn’t a run, was I ok, was I stuck, and to be careful! Near the bottom, it just wasn’t skiable at all, so I had to take off my ski’s and walk down. Thats the last time I’m following a pair of unknown boarders. Grr.

I only stopped for a Powerade drink at around 12, before heading out again for some more action. I started getting fairly tired by about 2:30pm, when I finally decided to stop for lunch! After which, I only had time for one more run down High Noon, before traversing over to Crackenback to fast track it down to the village, return my ski’s, get changed and get on the bus, which left at 4:15pm.

I promptly fell asleep as we left the ski fields, I was so totally buggered. Though was woken up when they decided to play a movie between Jindy and Canberra. Grr. After a dinner stop at Canberra, they played another movie – a decent one this time – Miss Congeniality. Heheh. So I stayed awake to watch that. And then slept all the way back to Central, where my very kind Paul was waiting to pick me up at 11:30pm.

So that was my one day ski adventure. Fun, though very tiring. Dunno if I’ll do it again – but I’d never know if I never tried. 🙂 I took some photos with my phone – one of which is up on my moblog.

Anyways, better go and clean up my stuff – gotta wash my gear and clean my incredibly messy room.

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