The wettest weekend. NO exaggeration. We drove up to Benalla on Thursday night aiming to ski on Friday as we knew Saturday had heavy rains forecast with temps becoming too high to be snow. Down in the valley it rained and poured and rained and poured and the river levels started to rise. By Sunday …
A few pictures from an overnight ski trip to Razorback Hut, Mount Stirling:
It seemed I’d hardly finished looking forward to winter, and now it is spring. However, fortunately some late wintry weather, that saw a Victorian member of parliament lost for 3 days in the mountains, topped up our snow for some last minute fresh turns. Maybe we might get one more weekend . .
Last week we spent four days in the Ovens Valley. This is a stunningly beautiful valley dominated by views of Mt. Buffalo and Feathertop. In summer you can canoe or swim in the Ovens river or climb the granite of Mt. Buffalo. The town of Bright is also popular place for paragliding. In winter you …
This weekend was a SNOW weekend. And also my birthday-trip weekend (my birthday is on Monday). We snowshoed overnight packs and snow toys 5km (and 0.5km of elevation) up Mount Stirling on Saturday afternoon. My pack was almost intolerably heavy… but It was gorgeously white and fluffy everywhere we looked :) We set up camp …
Snow!! Mountains!! Snow!! Overnight trip to Mount Stirling aided by my Birthday Present!!! Special Thanks to Audrey for shipping these out to us from the U.S. … and boo for things costing so much here =/ Unbeleiveable but it cost the same amount to buy two pairs and pay shipping from the U.S. as it …
Early one cold morning… ♥Is it Christmas soon? ♦ No sweetie, it’s your birthday soon. ♥It’s like Narnia. Always winter and never Christmas. ♦ When is midwinter? ♥Twenty-first of December. ♦ No, sweetie, that’s the wrong hemisphere. ♥ O. Twenty first June, then. ♦ Well that’s in two days. Soon it will be spring. ♥But …
It sure is weird to be running in a fleece touque and mitts just a couple of days after being in early summer. Brrr. The clouds cleared this morning while I was having breakfast and I saw how much snow there is on the north shore mountains for the first time. Cypress, Grouse and Seymour …