Big Adventures, Little World

Our last day on the slopes began late as we all just wanted to rest for a while before heading up the mountain. We got up there about 11AM and then we watched Kate as she attempted to get back into it after having the day off the day before. She didn’t want to keep us waiting as she wasn’t too sure if she was going to come out so Elese, Lucas and I went off on the same run we did yesterday, but changed it up a bit towards the end.

We went through to El Tarter down the Gall de Bosc run, and then made our way up the chair lift again so we could see Spain and France from the same spot. Then we started to make our way down the mountain again, like we did yesterday on the Òs run but instead of changing half way through we kept going along it and through the tunnel that was on the run. The tunnel was very narrow and Sam had recommended we don’t go through it because of that because we wouldn’t be able to make our turns through it that well, but by now we decided we were pretty much experts so through it we went. We picked up quite a lot of speed going through there because we weren’t doing the turns and just went straight through. We got through it ok, but as I came out I made the stupid mistake of trying to slow down and just ended up crashing. Next time I know just to keep going fast though! We kept going all the way to the bottom which was quite a long run and then back up to the top again to see how Kate was getting on.

Showing off my skills on the snowboard

We found Kate sitting down by the restaurant. She’d fallen on her bum again and couldn’t come out again which sucked for her and for us because we couldn’t show off our new skills and how awesome we were. We had a short break then Elese and I headed out again for one last big run! We went out towards El Tarter again along Gall de Bosc but we kept going along it all the way down to the bottom. It was a lot different to some of the other runs we had been on and was a lot narrower. The snow was a bit sludgy as well from all the sun which also made it quite icey and therefore faster and hard to fall on in some points. I had some big falls going through it, but luckily there weren’t a lot of others going through the run so I wasn’t really getting it the way of everyone. We made it to the end and then made our way up the chairlift, then up Tosa chairlift to the top of the mountain again as we did earlier. Then we went down the same run, Òs, but this time instead of going off through the tunnel we changed on to the Bosc Fosc run which we had been doing with Sam during our lessons.

We got back up to the top of the mountain 1 hour and 10 minutes later and had covered nearly 25 kilometres! It was an amazing day where we just got to get out there and do our own thing and was just snowboarding pretty much nonstop. It’s one of the most exhilarating things I have done and just nothing but fun. I haven’t skied before, but I don’t know why anyone would want to when they can snowboard instead. It’s just that much cooler! We spent the rest of the afternoon on the mountain top at the steak house where we had some mammoth burgers. They were delicious and what an amazing setting to be eating them in as well. Out in the sun, surrounded by the snow covered mountains. It really was a great end to our week of snowboarding.