It’s nothing like surfing, but anyway…

  I had the Hawaii Five-0 theme tune running through my head for most of the morning as we learnt to link turns.  For the first hour or so I would do a frontside turn, followed by a backside turn, another frontside turn and then I’d have picked up too much speed and I’d fall attempting the next backside turn.

  I finally cracked it; I simply slowed down after each turn and managed to link 18 turns (yes, I counted !) before the morning was out – well pleased.

   After lunch I went back up to the Altiport where we’d had our lesson this morning and carried on linking turns and making them quicker, shorter and faster.  Inevitably this led to several falls and a decision to call it a day after ‘just one more run’.

  By this time the snow was pretty soft and scraped into lumps on the steeper sections.  I would regularly catch one of these ‘waves’ of snow with the downhill edge of the board and, instead of ‘surfing’ over it I’d dive head-first down the slope and pick up yet another bruise.

   Peter was having the same problem and as he’s an ex-copper every time he did fell I couldn’t resist saying “Book ‘em, Danno” (maybe you had to be there – it kept me amused).

   Great fun.