Mindless Babble: Thredbo Day 3

Thredbo Day 3:
(Tuesday the 20th)

Woke up at about 7 o'clock and the weather outside was really nice, only about 3cms of fresh snow but at least it was clear and not windy, went and had breakfast at the restaraunt and then got ready to head out.

View from our hotel room

the mountain looking a lot softer and fresher than it actually was.

Daws and I went to the top of kozi chair and skied all the way down to friday flat on the other side of the mountain and caught the gunbarrel chairlift up, Antons T-bar near the peak was open for the first time this season so we thought we better go check it out, i was hoping there would be fresh snow and some interesting terrain but it was ridiculously icy and very boring so we skied down and then met Bennet back at the supertrail area under kozi lift. we did some super fast racing lines down world cup a couple of times which was fun

Daws chillin...get it...because he's sitting in the snow...haha

Then we went over to friday flat and met the others, had some food and then caught the gunbarrel chairlift back up to the cruiser area, this was the first time Nada Courtney and Alex Vickery had snowboarded anywhere other than the beginner area and they were doing really well.

Ollie Daws and Bennet on the cruiser chairlift

This is a run called boundary riders under the cruiser chairlift, looks like it would be ridiculously fun but as you can see there is almost no snow and skiing it would of just been stupid.

I kept doing park laps while the others kept skiing and boarding down the cruiser area, I managed to land railslides to normal and fakie, butter on a box, a few more 180s and nearly a 360 but kept landing on my ass cheek. then the others headed in and i stopped off at the "intermediate" park to check out the big air comp that was on, it was pretty cool and the competitors were doing some sick stuff on the first two jumps, i skied down the rest of the park which was set up to an extremely high level, double kink rails, a rail jam into a bonk bin, huge hitching post and a massive C-rail, they were all set pretty high above the ground with big gaps which made it pretty scary, I think the guys who built it made it suit them rather than everyone else seeing as there wasnt enough snow to open an advanced park up top...i thought that was pretty poor form as you went from flat dancfloor boxes on the ground and 5 foot jumps in the beginner park to 40 foot jumps and crazy rails in the intermediate park...nothing inbetween.