Mitchell's space

Climbed up a ridge with Akael Alias and Nick Harrison to watch the sunrise this morning. I discovered two things- number 1: Early mornings still don’t agree with me & number2: The sunrises around here are Spectacular (yes it needs a capital and italics).

The eastern sky lightens with the approach of dawn, while on the opposite horizon the moon gently sets. A visual buffet of colour stretches across the sky, warm reds and yellows herald the coming of the sun in the east as the western sky lightens to dark blues and purples while an orange moon sinks behind the mountain.

After a harrowing climb back down to the lodge we were greeted with a delicious breakfast before we headed off to our lessons. Back to beginner snowboarding lessons for me to get a recap on the basics before turning myself loose on the slopes.

But disaster struck. As I reached to tighten a binding on my snowboard I heard the terrible sound of ripping fabric. A nasty gash in the fabric of my ski pants. Not cool, not cool at all (or as some of class 10 would say “tots devo”).

But it’s ok, I bought another pair for only $190 NZ… Yeah there was a little sarcasm in that…

The rest of the afternoon was spent enjoying a relaxing game of pool or reading a Jeff Deaver novel (which I have to finish before we leave ‘cause it belongs to the lodge) as the clouds slowly rolled in from the distant horizon until finally, the skies opened and snow began to fall.

You just gotta love it :)

Catch ya’ll later,

Mitch