Back when I lived in Telluride, CO (2009) I had an Australian friend who had named the piles of snow on a powder day on rocks, leaves, trees and so on “clams”. If you have seen a good Colorado powder day and can visualise it you will know what I mean. He bought a tin of clams on each such day for the season and stacked them up at the ski store. The nickname has stuck and there is now a crew of “Clams” folk that get around above 1000m, even here in the Australian snow field.
The good news is we have had some EPIC clams days this season up at Hotham.
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| Got to earn those turns... |
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| The tour guide (at least I knew vaguely where we were headed... Down!) |
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| Yep I was the pushy tour guide that took the first turns! |
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Powder beds...
The pictures really don't do it justice. Hiking Golden Point off the top of Orchard was definitely worth it on one fabulous weekend with old family friends up here to hang out with. |
The next weekend, 7 days after fresh snow we still managed to find some perfectly “corny” turns in a little secret spot (not telling you where!!) with gorgeous sun and lots of time to shred with a totally cool group of girls.
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| Loz and I just a little excited about riding together! |
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| Loving the crusty corn! |
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| Apres any one? |
I’ve just arrived at Hotham for another weekend of fun. Unfortunately no clams in sight but it is the Australia New Zealand Cup races (the National Championship of Australia) which I am very excited about. Hopefully I can back up a solid performance at this event after taking out the National Championship last year. Driving up here today it felt a bit like summer, being 20+ degrees in Melbourne, the blue mountains were sparkling and the snow visibly melted since last weekend. However, given the good early season snowfall at first glance the course looks like it actually has some decent features (jumps, burms etc). I CAN’T WAIT TO RIDE IT!!!
With only one boardercross race under the belt for the season thus far at the Victorian Intervarsity Championships, which did not go exactly to plan, I’m feeling itchy to get out and compete. The adrenaline of flying down the course always makes those endless gym hours worthwhile.
Here's some photos from up at Vics...
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| Warming up on the X-Country ski's with Camilla |
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| 180 on XCountry ski's? No biggie |
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| Slopestyle - Queen of the Girly Method! |
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| The little wu tang on the Boarder Cross course |
Sending smiles from a sunny Hotham - wish me luck!
[Thanks go to Lauren Broomhall, Vanessa Bacchetti, Cat Bonwick & Camilla Humphries for the photos included]
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