The Running Man

Last weekend, Dorothy, Jo, Pete and myself went on a 'hardcore' snowboarding and skiing weekend @ Perisher Blue. The snow is exceptionally good in Australia this year (very strange) and well it just proved too irresistible to the snow hounds like us :). The picture on the left shows us in the traditional pre-road trip pose in front of Pete's 4WD. The plan was that we were to leave on Friday night, drive to Berridale (about 4 hrs away) stay overnight there, then drive to Perisher (another hour away) on Saturday morning. We would then ski/board on Sat and Sunday and leave on Sunday evening and head back to Sydney. That is the hardcoreness of it all haha :). Here are some of the pictures from the trip...

The two lovely ladies seating behind with our gear that we picked up in Cooma

This was what we saw on the drive to Perisher...can you see the snow (even before we reached the snow fields..told you it was good ;) haha...

Finally we reach Perisher Blue resort!

The traditional pose with our boards and skis in the car park (can see a similar one in my prev post in July 2006)

The 4 of us on the chairlifts.

Me near Gunnedah with my board...just look at all that snow! I literally sank in! haha...nice and soft...

The setting sun on the slopes means its time to go home (but not before another run down!)

Our accomodation was simple and basic, but comfortable and warm. Thanks to the gals (whom brought alcohol hehe) we played some drinking games during the night and had pizza for dinner. Plus there was a tv in the room and I managed to catch my WC Eagles game (which they won). Tired, Full, Sore and a little drunk, but happy we all slept very well till the next day when we headed back to the ski fields...

Unfortunately, all good things must come to an end...and we had to leave at the end of the day for the long drive back up to Sydney. Tired but happy...it was a good weekend and the snow was everything that I'd expected. Will be back next month, so watch out for my next post! :)