The fifth day we had a really late start due to the three ladies in the apartment over sleeping. However, no-one wants to ski with tired and thus potentially volatile women, so I left them to there slumber. They finally managed to stir around eleven o’clock to yet more brilliant sunshine. Have to say that we were all hoping for some fresh snow, but alas we were not in luck. Anyway the rest of the day was pretty uneventful with Katy and Cara going off to do their own thing and Mrs F and I enjoying some runs on our own.
The final day, and we awoke to a misty outlook. Katy and I had decided that we would go for a couple of early morning runs, whilst Mrs F and Cara were still trying to rouse themselves from the land of slumber. Whilst traveling up the first of two gondolas to our start point, we slowly watched as the mist draw closer and closer in. We both hoped that we would rise above this mist, but were greeted at the top by only more mist and a light snow shower.
Having travelled all this way we decided to make the best of the current situation and headed down the other side of the mountain, to see if it was better the other side. The weather didn’t clear much, but the fresh snow was as Katy put it “awesome” to ski on. We took the chair lift back up and even though the visibility hadn’t improved a great deal decided to make another couple of runs before heading off to meet up with Mrs F and Cara.
We just had time to hit the green run we did earlier in the week and managed to complete the whole run in 15 minutes flat. I think this was due to the fact that Katy had the bit between her teeth and managed to get some good run ups to the flat parts. Anyway, after finishing that run we were just in time to meet up with Mrs F and Cara. As the snow fall was getting heavier we decided that we would call it a day and instead release the inner child and headed over to the an empty field to try out the new bum boards.
As you can see the inner child in each of us came out to play, and much fun was had by all. In addition to simply sliding down on these boards, we made a train linking legs around the person in front, and also made snow angels in the fresh powder. However, once you get these boards going there is much control on them, and several times we all ended up in a heap, but it was great fun.
