My annual ski trip, this year again with the Specker Gang, and for the 5th time in Ski Amade. A great trip as usual, good skiing, good friends, good laughs, sing songs, bit of a walk, a jog, games of cards and schock dice the normal bag of tricks. I skied with Mark, we had 5 days of excellent conditions and one leisurely snow day. Three of the days were vigourous, one day we skied over to Flachau via the G-Link and did many good runs, two of the days were more pedestrian with coffee and hot chocolate breaks, and socialising with others on the trip.
The day over in Flachau, we were down in the valley when a storm hit, so we hand lunch, the storm cleared the resort, the group had headed back to the hotel so we went to ski back to base, by the time we got back up to the top we were above the cloud and missed, champagne skiing we skiied back with empty runs, new powder covered runs, no lift queues (no one to crash into) so we took perhaps too much advantage of it, missed the late bus back to our hotel, but managed to cajole another bus going near it to drop us off(one of the best ski days ever).
I was happy my recently broken and repaired foot held up (a skiboot is very like a cast anyways), the rest of my body perhaps feels the aches and pains a lot still, but well earned. I did have three falls, one due to an uncontrolled beginner clipping my skis, the two others were due to my messing so perhaps karma! but no damage done although my salopettes have seen better days.
As ever it was well organised by Dave and co, and thanks to Siegi Tours, and the Hotel Post for looking after us all.
