I LOVE snow! And there was A LOT of it in Perisher this weekend. It was nice and thick so you were able to carve (or try to carve) some pretty sweet s-curves.

Day one was a beautiful sunny blue-sky day, making it the perfect day snowboarding.

Most of us are beginner snowboarders so, as you can imagine, we spent a lot of time on the ground or tumbling down the slopes. One friend in particular, Jess (pictured below), spent a considerable amount of time on the ground. Whenever Jess fell – she fell spectacularly! I’m talking stack and tumble or face-plant and slide down the mountain head first on your chest. It was very entertaining and absolutely hilarious.

Say no to T-bars
We’ve decided for our next snow trip we’re heading to Thredbo, why? So we never have to deal with a T-bar ever again. Those things are dangerous. The first time I hopped on the T-bar I was partnered up with Jess – bad idea. We went about 2 meters then totally stacked it with Jess’s board colliding with my knee which now feels like a tenderised piece of steak – nice and mushy.

On the next attempt we thought it might be easier to go on the T-bar individually instead of in pairs. After a bit of stalling and a crash course on how to use the T-bar, the line backed up considerable giving us a big audience for our performance on the T-bar. The pressure was on and unfortunately we didn’t perform. One after the other we fell off the T-bar with the audience Oo-ing and Aww-ing as we fell and then cheering when someone finally made it up – which wasn’t one of us. It was the most embarrassing experience of my life.

We decided to give up on the T-bar and just do the walk of shame back to base. It was a good 20 minute walk in thick snow.

That night we started planning for the next day with the main objective of avoiding all T-bars. We successfully mapped out our day so that every time we reached the bottom we would meet a chair lift not a T-bar.

Day 2 – a successful day T-bar free
We caught the chair lift up to one of the highest points on the mountain and were met by a terrible snow storm. It was so windy and snowing so much that no one could snowboard up there. Pretty much everyone took their boards off and walked the entire run. It was so miserable that some of us just wanted to pack up and head to the pub, and this was the first run of the day.

The storm eventually blew over and the rest of the day was nice, not sunny like the previous day, but better then a blizzard. We found a really sweet run called Copperhead, it’s a smooth downhill run that has lots of turns and corners, that was by far my favourite run. Followed by a steaming cup of hot chocolate.

And the perfect sunset to end the trip and send us home.