First for the Season

July + School holidays + sunny still day = skiing! We christened our season passes today with a day trip to the snow in perfect conditions. It was an early, cold and misty start to the day leaving home just before 6am in time to get a park at Perisher. We made good progress as there wasn't much traffic around and arrived at Perisher around 8.30am parking in one of the last rows of the carpark.

Al, Mira and Max were already on the slopes having arrived about 30 min earlier having made it through the biggest queue at front valley. From then it was a very quiet day on the lifts much to our surprise.

We spent a good deal of the morning on Interceptor - firstly winding our way through the snow gums on the Discovery Trails and then zooming down the run under the chair before returning to the top via mid station. Andy and Ella were both full of wobbles and near crashes as they adjusted to the feel of their new skis.

Post lunch, we headed over to the Ridge Quad for a few runs before splintering into several groups. Andy and Ella decided on harder stuff, Al and Max went on their own adventure towards Mt P, while the two little girls and I headed back to Interceptor.

Katy and Mira named a new location on the map - the Katy and Mira Snow Pillow. A snow ramp which they loved skiing down. Their first go they both ended up crashing and spent a long time recovering from their laughter! Every run from then on involved the snow pillow and they improved with each attempt.

Wondering how the others were going, I received a call from Andy - Ella had crashed hurting her ankle. Their plan was to catch the skitube back to perisher. It was around 2pm by this stage and the little girls were getting tired too so I called it a day and we began to make our way back to the car as well, seeing though it was still a fair way away. In perfect timing we bumped into Al and Max coming down the final run into Perisher. A great day sweeping away the spiderwebs and finding our skiing legs again!