Friday was our last day skiing and as we had no lessons it was a free day. The plan was to spend it with the Richardsons & Brinds & see what happened. Tim was confident enough to take his camera up the mountain for the first time so there are a lot of pictures!
It was a beautiful sunny day with lots of fresh snow to enjoy and while heading up the chair lift the others decided to do a Red run before heading over to the Seven Dwarfs. So we, with camera, headed across to 7 Dwarfs ourselves. When I say "we" I really mean Fiona zoomed off while Tim stopped to take some pictures....a familiar feature of the day.
I'm glad to report that it was brilliant fun! And we weren't the only ones to fall over. Chrispy even managed to crash into the bell and knock the snow off it! We did quite a few runs before deciding it was time to stop for some hot chocolate. According to the experts it was the best on the mountain! mmmmm... Tim & Beth entertained us with a bit of dancing - in ski boots it was very amusing.
Once back on the piste we followed the blue track down to the main chair lift up to the top of HK and then went up even higher (I know....how can you go higher than the top!?). From there we traversed across in the general direction of 7 Dwarfs. We were so high up that the views were just fantastic! The snow was so deep and fresh. Beth decided to create a snow angel.
When it was getting towards lunch time the question was where did we want to stop and eat?...Beth suggested we find a sunny spot in the trees (off piste, of course) where the snow is fresh and sparkly and eat there...for some reason we all agreed and set off in search of somewhere. We found our random spot and got off our skis. Beth jumped off hers and ended up thigh deep in the snow! We all perched on our skis to eat so that we wouldn't sink too much. Sharing things involved throwing & was the cause of the loss of chocolate snacks and Chris being covered in snow having dived to catch them.
Next we headed over to Red 11 (on Planai) for more off piste – this was a bit more challenging with some steep banks to traverse and then lots of trees to contend with. It was good fun even if scary at times.
On our way back to Hauser Kaibling, on what is a fairly long chair lift, we must admit to some silliness. The sun was strong & creating really good shadows which came in to focus as the angle of the ground changed below. This created so interesting photo opportunities, we just had to be careful to hang on to everything!
Back on HK we headed across to blue 3 where we all skied down, doing the camel humps and generally having fun. Back to the top again & then the plan was to do red 3 but due to tiredness Fi decided to stick with blue 3 and Paul was kind enough to go with her...We all met up back at the top of HK to finish the day off with one last run – Fi & Beth on blue 4 & Tim, Chris, Sarah and Paul on Red 4, meeting up where the the two runs join.
Tim & I were pretty exhausted at this stage so it was the gondola home for us while the others skied back to Pension Ennstal. It was a gondola journey with very satisfied smiles on our faces. :)Stats for the day looked like this:
- Downhill distance: ca 34km, (only time that Fi did more than Tim – she's a bit smug about that...)
- Lifts used: 19,
- Lift distance: 19km,
- Vertical distance 5088m!!
Next morning it was time for farewells & another bus journey back to Munich. Then flights to Heathrow & more goodbyes. What a wonderful week! We look forward to the opportunity to do it all again some time.(Sorry this has been so long – it has been difficult to put it all in words. I had planned just one post but realistically that was never going to happen!)
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