Thursday, March 10, 2011

Hirafu Happy Hoppers - Day 5

Yes, Ninja is growing another beard... Day 6
How the mighty have fallen... I forgot to report yesterday that I had my first and second fall... Ninja and Kickass had made friends with the snow early on in the week and I was trying to remain un-smug about my nimbleness... doh! It was the foot deep snow that did me in the end... twice I'd traversed across a slope to a new area only to discover that no one else had taken the path and the snow was knee deep - splat! Ninja took a few tumbles too - just to make me feel better... but I have a feeling his were a bit more graceful.

Today we were faced with similar blindness - snow was "puking"down as Taurus calls it. We waited until - 11am and then hit the slopes... minus our Kickass Kelly - she surcumbed to a mystery ankle soreness and took a "rest day". We were also fuelled with a breakfast burrito which was AWESOME... how did they get so much cheese in there?!??!

Ninja on Silver Dream
We bussed to Hannazono which is a board park with a nice long (3.3km) slope called Silver Dream... it was in fact a nice dream and was over before we knew it - few questionable green bits - would think they were more like European Blue.. anyway we made it down the mountain with smiles and headed back up two chair lifts to get back on to the 'Holiday' run - madness that it took 20mins by bus and 1hr later we'd skied back to where we'd started! Ninja used is ïnerta"to his advantage on the Holiday run and was often waiting for me to catch up... guns are aching! we did a few runs on our regular trails, including video below, and called it a day.

Duration: 2hrs
Distance covered: 9.3km
Calories Burnt: 900 Cal

We hit the Dragon tonight for cocktails and a meal. We had lamb, vension and waygu - all good but a bit undercooked... medium isn't the same all around the world! back to Steak Rosso Rosso tomorrow!!! woohoo
xoxo
Karate Kate

No comments:

Post a Comment