Popping Dans Boarding Cherry

Even though the forecasts were reporting milder conditions today we hadn’t anticipated weather nearly as gorgeous as it was!  It’s amazing how quickly things can change in the mountains.  We were hungover and Dan had never skied or snowboarded before so it seemed like the perfect time for him to pop his boarding cherry!  Surprisingly he picked it up quite quickly but couldn’t quite get over his Zoolander blight of only being able to turn left.  He probably would have cracked it but his day was cut short by a damaged board making it virtually impossible to continue.  Dan headed back down to the hire centre to negotiate a five pound refund so I took the opportunity to move onto some faster slopes.  The snow was ace and despite me saying previously that I’d never board in Scotland again i really enjoyed it.  Sadly, I’d been an absolute muppet and had left my gloves at the guest house resulting in frozen blocks of ice where my hands were meant to be… if I’d only left my pockets unzipped and the camera gaffa taped to my forehead then I would have got some great pictures and videos of Dan falling on his arse!  I’m sure there will be a next time though   Here are some pictures that I stole from the SAIS blog to show how nice the weather was (and how foxy the forecaster looks).

 

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