Archive | July, 2009

Hotham 09 – Day 4 – Powder day

14 July 2009

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After a late night with Pip, who was not very well at all, I was a little slow getting out of bed this morning. Most other people were up and moving, ready to hit the slopes, before we were even eating breakfast – which was a shame, as there had been another 14cm of fresh [...]

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Hotham 09 – Day 3 – Mountains of snow

13 July 2009

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We awoke on Day 3 to 20cm of fresh snow blanketing the resort – a nice change to the worsening conditions we had experienced the day before. It was still snowing as we were eating breakfast, but from inside the chalet the weather looked rather pleasant. It was a bit of a slow start for [...]

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Hotham 09 – Day 2 – Wild weather, big bad organisations, and some skiing

12 July 2009

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Note: this is the second time I’ve written this post, so this is the somewhat abridged (and possibly slightly more negative) version. Thanks a lot Apple Mail and Gmail – you guys work great together. Not. Day 2 started at a more reasonable hour – 7:00am wake-up for most of us, although Ed had been [...]

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Hotham 09 – Day 1 – To the snowfields!

11 July 2009

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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 [...]

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