Awesome Skiing!

Today was the last day of training for the Ellie with Gordon Skiers.............and what a day to finnish off!  Awesome conditions.  Despite losing a lot of snow over the last week or so there was still an excellent base up on the higher runs and the fresh snow of Friday and Saturday freshened the runs up beautifully.

Ellie and I were up at 8.15 so time for a few warm up runs before club started at 9am.  Here is a video of Ellie having a quick warm up.  Don't be taken in by the weather, it was gorgeous sunshine only 5 minutes before then the snow shower came through!

After that it was up to the upper runs on Corrie Fionne and Glas Maol, pretty windy up high but the kids skied everywhere, on piste , off piste, over cornices etc whilst us parents just let rip on the pistes, stunning snow conditions and beautiful sunshine.

After lunch the coaches set up a skier cross  race course for the kids to race down, three at a time, great sport and some impressive skiing.

We finished off across the road with Ellie getting a timed run down a race course that had been set up in the GS piste.  Then a final run that involved skiing over a cornice to get across to the Tiger, seriously steep and Ellies first black run, and it has to be said she probably skied it better than her father!  Then it was off to the cafe for a well earned cup of tea for me and hot chocolate for Ellie.

Exhausted Girls at The End of The Day!