Skiing the other weekend

I hit the slopes for the first time ever the other week. Strapped myself in to a snowbaoard and away I went. It was fun and beautifually sunny so we were up there for 2.5 days. Here's the team, l-r Cath, Alice, Summer, me and Jacinta, in the carpark at Turoa Skifield on Mt Ruapehu in Tongariro National Park (see Tongariro walk post below).



This is me at the top of the skifield, having just made it up the tow bar on a snowboard on my third attempt. The other two were kind of embarrassing. The top of Ruapehu is somewhere in the background.




This is Jacinta in the same spot but looking down the skifield. The first time it had clouded up all weekend! She was on her secondish time boarding so we were of similar standard although she has skiied quite a bit before. We have the same sunglasses. This is a coincidence.




Me and Jacinta and Summer took a couple of days off and went to Hawke's Bay. This is the famous Pania on the Reef thing which was stolen earlier this year but they got it back in one piece. This is a fairly standard tourist photo if it wasn't for the idiot missing the timer and looking like some kind of deviant as a result.