The Running Man

Thredbo 07

Ok...its another snowboarding trip to the snow (final one) :P only this time its with 10 other people including my dear Lil...and its to Thredbo (another ski field in NSW) rather than Perisher. The people who went this time are: Me, Lil, PT, Jo (a new couple), Mich, Yish, Joey, Iva, Wanyi, Gin, and Lizi...yup you got it right...there are 9 girls going and only 2 guys :P needless to say this was going to be a slow slow trip... The photo on the right shows the traditional photo before the road trip outside a truck stop on the way to Canberra on Friday night (we went to the snow on the weekend of 18 and 19 August). So anyway here is what we did...please refer to slide show below and youtube video in previous post for the details :) So here we are at the snow store where we are renting our snowboards and skis, you can see PT and Joey (background) in the picture. Can you see the massive amount of cool snowboards there...sigh...so many different designs...so tempted to get myself my own snowboard haha...
Here is a picture of us with my trusty Sapien snowboard (the same one...the 1 with the Lion design...soooo cool) which is the one I borrowed last time...I instantly saw that when in the shop :)
We spent one night in Canberra...to rest from the long long drive up from Sydney. We left Canberra at 5am to head for the snow shop to hire our gear and then headed off to the accomodation place to drop off some luggage. Then it was off to Thredbo! Here is the plan (warning...complicated :P), we were to meet up with Iva and Joey in Canberra and drive down together. We were also to meet Mich, Yish and Lizi at Berridale (as they drove up from Melbourne...a 7-8 hr drive..respect!). Anyway like all plans...they often don't go to plan..haha...due to some adventures by the Melbourne people (let them tell it to you and how they ran out of fuel in Thredbo) we arrived kinda late at the snowfields, but oh well it was still pretty good snowboarding and skiing :P Here is a picture of Gin and Wanyi looking fresh and awake and read to ski the day away. I was also looking forward to the day, not only because I was going to be snowboarding with Lil but also because I was going to catch up with Suey and Tina (yes you guys got a mention on my blog as promised..haha)! These are friends from Perth who are up in NSW for a dental "conference" (tax deductible of course) grrrr....
Me with Suey and Tina (its been ages since I last saw them...and I am going back to Perth for their wedding in Dec!! can't wait!)
My Lil coming down Merrits (snow run)...she is pretty good and steady...we pretty much explored all the slopes and she is about the same standard as myself so she was an excellent companion! :)
Lil doing an advertisement for 'Burton' snowboards haha...don't know what sort of ad it is tho haha
Us at the bottom of Eagles Nest (which you can somewhat see in the background)...one of the highest peaks on the mountain :)
us doing the traditional snow pose haha...

The pictures above shows the breathtaking speed my Lil is travelling haha! :)
For those who have gone snowboarding or skied before...they would know that after the event you are just so so hungry. Like the first hardcore snowtrip, I booked a table at the pub type resturant next door. The picture on the left shows the entire group + Anthony and some of his work colleagues (who joined us for dinner since they were also in the same accomodation place and had gone to Perisher for the weekend). We were all soooo hungry and just ravenous for hot food :) Anyway it was a pretty decent feed...and here are some pictures

The pictures above show what we had for dinner...a gourmet beef pie and some lamb shanks yumm! (doesn't beat the Tyranosaurus Rex Ribs I had last time...because the previous owners went out of business :P haha) Good tucker! After a very filling dinner we all went back to our rooms.... to play drinking games! haha...good times good times and quite fun times with all the various games (poor Mich! haha). It was good to be surrounded by the familiar sounds of Singlish, Mandarin and just general Singaporean accents (for once its Lil that is outnumbered haha). Tired, full, we headed back to our own rooms...for a good nights sleep
The next morning (the final day :( ) we headed off again for the snowfields (now its relatively quite 'late' in the season...so as you can see from the above picture, there was actually grass and sun shining....compare it with my previous post and the amount of powder present as compared to this one haha...
We met up with Suey and Tina again for lunch at the highest cafe in the Southern Hemisphere...Eagles Nest! A picture of us at the cafe having a coffee (we are at the snow! we should be snowboarding...haha) As you can see from the apparantly warm weather...winter is nearly over :P no more snowfalls fo now...
Here is a picture of Mich (on her bum...) haha... she was very brave ...always keep getting up and going down the slope no matter how many times she fell...respect Mich...and well done for completing that final run and managing to stop without falling down! its quite an achievement for a first timer! haha Another pic
A picture of the 3 new PwC secondees (guess who they are out of the 4 on the chairlift behind us) haha...
My Lil ready to go!

Now unfortunately, all good things must come to an end...and it did for this season's snow trip ... we all left the fields early to beat the traffic and head off in out seperate directions :) Overall a very fun trip and looking forward to it next winter haha...

posted by Darren at 1:20 AM