Beanies - checked. Water proof gloves -checked. Sunglasses - checked. Snow pants - checked. (I didn't really have a snow pants so I wore a track pants) Jackets - checked. Thermal wear - checked. We are all set! Most importantly, Juliana is awake!
The drive took us about a couple of hours and the route there was pretty smooth till the top of the mountain where the road was pretty icy. Juliana was sleeping her way to Pomerelle and lucky for me, I had Desmond to talk to, else I might just fall asleep.
We set off rather early on a Saturday morning so we could have ample time to learn how to snowboard. When we reached there, the weather was really chilly. The wind chill was quite unbearable but that didn't stop us from. snowboarding. We went to rent the necessary equipments (snowboard, shoes) after warming up in the cafe. Thereafter, we were out to learn snowboarding for about an hour. I thought it was really a bad idea to take up private lessons as the fees were hefty and the lessons could have been better.
The fundamentals of skiing is easier than snowboarding. It's so much easier to manuveour in skiing than snowboarding. We had our ass cracked so many times while learning to stop and manuveour using a snowboard. Even when we were confident after that, we found ourselves falling hard on our ass.
As the weather was getting worse, I decided to call it a day as the cold might cause hypothermia. Our faces were already numb! We made our way back to the cafe, had some hot drinks before returning the equipments. I felt that we were really underdressed.
Our next stop will be Soldier Mountain and before going there, we are going to get balaclavas, ski masks and snow pants else it would be waste to travel all the way up to the mountain and spend a short time there.
