Day six we got our skiing fix!

By Shaz Thompson on July 12, 2015 • ( 1 Comment )

WOW, WOW, WOW!

After the best steak ever, a good nights rest and blue skies it was shaping up to be a corker. No chains required on Coronet and a 20 min drive to the slopes. John dropped us off at the top, it was Sues first day out – she was feeling a little nervous so she came and skied with Neil, Jen and I on Meadows. We are now dab hands at getting ready, the whole process getting easier. I was nervous about my feet as the one arch still hadn’t relaxed, I put on my boots – they felt okay, so far so good.

No queues, it was bliss. My feet were killing me on the first two runs but somehow they improved and I had so much fun. It was amazing to see Jen ski, she is parallel turning and doing so well. The Meadows run has a left gentle slope with a sharp turn at the end, which Jen hates. But she hates the look of the steeper wider right hand slope. After the first run, she wanted to go on the left gentler slope and got stuck on the sharp corner and wanted to give up. Those having skied – no this feeling and we have all been there and generally it is on the first or the last run! We talked her into trying the right hand exit but steeper but wider and she “minced” it. Over the past few days I have been doing it tough skiing slowly with Jen and Neil – no longer we shoot down the slopes and before you know it we are on the chair lift back up again. The last run before lunch Jen progressed from green to blue. I won’t lie and say that she enjoyed it, she was doing well until John skied up behind her and tap her on the bum with his ski pole and oopsie daisy, all of a sudden she was twisted like a pretzel with the skis still on. John luckily stopped straight away and was able to unwind her and get her back on her feet. She fell a few more times but after she started to take shorter turns she blitzed it. So proud of her…. I know my dad would be toasting her bravery today. Jen and I did cath the giggles on the slope today, somehow in trying to avoid a skier she managed to be going straight downhill, skis still on, but she was sitting on her heels. As she passed me, she looks at me with a smile, still on her haunches she skied around two collisions and managed to do a snow plough and stop.

Neil, nearly didn’t come skiing this morning as he is starting a cold and has a sore chest, but after the first two runs he was glad he was out and he is skiing like a pro know. There are some ballerina moments where Neil does a U turn instead of a S turn and has a reverse ski turn in amongst the other turns. By the end of the day he was a happy chappy although feeling his age.

Sue skied so well, like a duck to water. After doing the easy runs in the morning she ventured out to wider pastures with John Sid and I in the afternoon. A great first day and she is now relaxing in a well deserved bath.

Sid and John skied the Coronet and Greengate in the morning and had the best time – they both skied the best that they have done all holiday. In the afternoon, Sid, John, Sue and I had a great ski, Jen and Neil skied Meadows on their own.

We are now all home and relaxing, bathing, having coffees before a home cooked meal of Shazzy Nachos with mulled wine. Doesn’t get much better than this.

Here are some photos and videos from today…