My Blue Heaven

Fully S.I.C

I had the bestest best time on the weekend. I spent a wonderful three days carving it up on the slopes of Perisher Blue. T’was brilliant! The weather was perfect – blue skies and sunshine each and every day we were there. The snow was in top form – being cold enough, it was topped up each night with snow-making to give us a nice fresh dry cover the next morning. And the company was great – went with a bunch from a ski club (to their annual Ski Info Conference) for the first time, and made many new friends. Ahh it was sooo much fun! There were about 40 or so of us, and we all stayed on snow at Smiggins (which was just fantastic, and soo soo convenient – the ski lifts were just across the road from my lodge!)

I went down on Thursday night via an overnight coach (again) and came back Sunday night. Won’t go into details about everything, but I took a few pics on both my digital camera and phone – which I will post up sometime this week (hopefully tomorrow!)

I also had the best skies I’ve ever skied on – which probably was a major contributor to my great time. I asked for High Performance skies, but they didn’t have any in my size (160cm)… so the very kind folk at Snowline Ski Centre upgrade me to last years 2003 demo’s (a Rossignol Bandit X, for those who are interested) for free!! And with a fresh wax just before giving em to me, ahhh.. *sigh*.. they just glided across the snow so smoothly, it was like skiing on air. Makes such a difference having a decent pair of skies.

I didn’t ski as hard as I have in the past this time – I didn’t even do Olympic or Kamikaze (and both were open with decent snow on them – tho prob a bit hard packed in places). The only crazy thing I did was on the first day, I got dragooned into jumping of the “cornice” at Smiggins. The cornice is just that… a cornice, high above Smiggins. (Accessed by hiking up, either left of the Bourke T-bar or right of the Link T-Bar.) Its just a fairly steep section, with a bit of a drop off at the top. I wasn’t sure if I wanted to do it, but I went up just to take a look. I ended up going off it, after some encouragement from the others – and man, I was literally shaking just before I did it. I think I stood up there too long – looking at it and thinking about it. But I did it, and didn’t stack either! Yay for me. 😀

Anyways, I had today off also, to rest and recuperate. It’s been a very relaxing day for me – went for a swim/spa/steam/sauna at Ryde Aquatic Centre to ease those tired muscles. Suprisingly, I’m not really all that sore! I expected myself to be hardly able to walk, but apart from a sore-ish and stiff muscle here and there, I’m alright! I get more sore from dance class! Maybe its because I’d increased the dancing and exercising in the few weeks beforehand and was in a fairly fit condition.

Well, its bedtime for me. Wanna get an early night to give myself some extra recovery time. Nitey nite folks!

Current listening :: “Who’s That Girl” – Eve

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