July 29, 2003
More Skiing in Queenstown
Well it's now Tuesday and I finished my marathon 11 days of skiing yesterday, not really much to report on the latter end of last week, was quite tired on friday, saturday and sunday so didn't ski all day then.
On Friday, my friend Adam (off my course at Uni) got into Queenstown (and the same hostel), and him and his friend Ben came up the slopes with me yesterday. Adam was quite good at boarding despite only having a few lessons, and Ben's a very good skier so we managed to do pretty much every slope on offer, including a couple of blacks. It should also be noted that according to Ben (and he's made a 1000 pound bet on it) snowboarding will have died out in 10 years from now, for the simple reason that Adam took so long to put his bindings back on after getting off the lift. We went out for a few drinks last night at yet more bars. We were going to go to the Hard Rock Cafe for Karaoke, but decided to drink somewhere else cheaper and by the time we got there it was dead so we went elsewhere.
View of Queenstown and Lake Wakatipu from the Remarks
Another view from the Remarks
Adam on the road back down from the Remarks
Today I've been up the Gondola to the lookout above Queenstown which wasn't really that impressive seeing as it's only 2000ft up and yesterday Adam and I climbed up to a lookout point at the Remarkables which is over 5000ft up. Still the luge was fun up at the Gondola.
I think given that I've been skiing for the last 11 days I probably will only have a couple of days up at Cardrona and Treble Cone when I'm in Wanaka, but that'll probably depend on what else there is to do.
Posted by Alexis at July 29, 2003 03:05 AM