Melbourne Day 7

Forget about BridgeClimb, SandBoarding or HorseRiding, SKIING IS THE BEST!! Gosh its so hard to describe what its like. In the morning, my uncle drove us to some mountain 3hours away from Melbourne city. Tks uncle! And my dad didn't ski, so he was the one taking all the pictures.

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Family photo

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Let me TRY to describe a bit about skiing. Generally it is quite similar to ice skating, just that now you're on long and flat ski blades instead of the razor looking skating blades. It harder to control coz the blades are long, and it tangles up quite easily. And its more scary because you're dashing down a very steep slope at a fairly high speed. The proper way is to ski zig-zag down the slope, but I find dashing down in a straight line more fun. There are a few cable cars to bring us up the mountain. Some brings to the middle, while others brings to higher spots.

Cable car

Lowest cable car stop

Busy day indeed

My sister, cousin and I attended a newbie's 2hour class. Didn't really learn much from there, after 1.5hours of the class we left to ski on our own. Not long after we started skiing, it started to snow. And we can actually see the 6 edged shape of snow flakes. So cool. And its really a nice feeling when the snow flakes land on the face.

Having lessons

However it started to snow even heavier. It turned out to be a hill storm. Hill storm is like a toned-down version of blizzard. And trust me, when the hillstorm flakes hits the face, its darn pain. Especially when your dashing down the slope against the direction of the flakes. And almost at the peak of the mountain, it was totally white blury mist. Vision range was only about 5meters. Its darn dangerous to ski under such conditions. You wont even be able to see whether you're gonna bang the side walls until you get too close to stop.

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See the mist up there??
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Close up hill storm
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Cousin MingLi, Waishan, Mum, Me

I need to pack up now. Going back to KL tomorrow. Haih. Damn Chemistry CT3 la. Its haunting me like nuts. Bye!