Ski – Day 4: Whiteout – Again!!!
New Routes…
1) We have struggled to get onto the bucket lifts, so Miss Lawson and Miss Monaghan (with their new hats) investigated an alternative route to the Instructors meeting point. This meant that the ‘Experienced’ group…to quote Miss Monaghan “Well…that was a VERY civilised way to get to the slopes”, we at Hyndland love a little civilisation from time to time.
2) The same group traversed off-piste to experience a forest trail, knee deep in powder…..although Milo Lockhart (Intermediate) has been doing his own version of off-piste since Monday! This included ten pin style crashing into Gabriel Herlihy-Martin, George Prince, Steven McWilliam and Iain Black….STRIKE!!!!!
Euan Urquhart and Martin Monaghan found their new vocation…..sweeping up the sprawled ski-less bodies strewn across numerous slopes; Mr Elder was particularly thankful!!
The BIGGEST success of the day has to go to the Beginner Group, who are now officially known as ‘INTERMEDIATES’ too! Well done to all, but Rachel Taylor and Katie Brown shone above the rest with their slick parallel glides down a BLUE run. While we are talking about this group, it must also be noted that Mr Morrison has had to do a little thread work on ripped clothing. Although the whole group were aware of this fashion faux pas, it was decided that Mr Morrison would only be informed by the next person to fall. Following an unplanned spin, it looked like Cuinlan had drawn the short straw but by some miracle, and despite a 200 metre backwards slide, he held his nerve and remained standing. Ben McD laughed so hard at Cuinlan’s antics that he lost his footing, stumbled and tumbled and was told by Christian the instructor “Ben, you must now do zour job. Tell heem!”
Back at the ranch the snow was now so heavy that our planned trip to the outdoor ice rink had to be cancelled. After a petit gateaux chocolat for Francesca Macmillan’s birthday, we headed to the in-house cinema for a date with James Bond. Swoon! At least tomorrow night’s entertainment is the disco so hopefully this won’t be snowed off…
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