Snowboarding

To make our trip to New Zealand that much better, we arrived in Queenstown only 2 days before the mountain opened up for ski season. We rented sweet snowboards and all the equipment that we needed and took a bus to Coronet Peak only to have beautiful weather on the slopes. There are only about 30 runs (as compared to the parks in the U.S. with about 200 runs) but it was still fun to get out in the snow. The odd thing was that there were absolutely no trees on the mountain... so the runs were pretty much anywhere you wanted to go!


The second day of boarding was much cooler because there was a complete "white out" and we literally couldn't see 3 feet in front of us. There was no way to distinguish the snow on the ground from the air around it so we couldn't even tell if we were going up a side hill or staying on the path. The paths were virtually unmarked which is the reason I found myself way off the track at one point. At least it made the runs more challenging.

I am pretty proud of myself because after learning only a year ago, I would say that I'm pretty good at this new sport.