Hotham 09 – Day 1 – To the snowfields!

Day 1 of the 2009 OnSno.com Australian Ski Adventure started as early as normal; 4:30am was the prescribed meeting time, at the usual (but very secret) starting location. While for once, Ed, Pip, John and I were on time, the remainder of the crew was not. Kim and Max arrived at 4:39am, literally seconds before Ed’s finger was to dial their number to question their whereabouts. At this point, we hadn’t seen or heard anything from Nick – but did blame his lateness on Astrid’s ability to never be early. A quick phone call later, and we soon discovered that both Nick and his volunteer driver Jock had taken Ed’s advice a little too literally about the location of the meeting point, and had actually... [Read More]