Hotham 09 – Day 5 – Happy Birthday Max (and what a great day)!

Day 5 started early. Around 7am for most. (It was Max’s birthday, and so he is forgiven for not wanting to be up before the sun.) The promise of a 7:30am lift start, coupled with fabulous new snow and brilliant weather was too good to pass up (although, how did we know anything about most of those things the night before when we planned this?!). John, Dave, Michelle, Ed and I were the keen skiers, although it took John and I longer to get out than the others. In the end it didn’t matter as the lift opened a little late and we soon caught up to the early crew who had been held up with a long line of other people with the same... [Read More]