Wednesday, August 13, 2008

White Weekend – Falls Creek

Falls Creek Snow
Weekend is great with snow everywhere!! It’s my first time that I’ve seen flakes of snow falling off the sky with a gentle breeze giving off a comfy feeling and it’s beautiful when the ground is covered by the snow all over the mountain.

I should bring some ingredients and make some Ice Kacang!!!!
Ice Kacang
Definitely taste better than this one!

Falls Creek is said to have the best snow in Australia with the biggest ski resort around Victoria, which also mean that it’s the best place for noob newbie skier/snowboarder like me to leave the mountain in one piece after ample of crashes around the ski tracks.
Freshness . Falls Creek Australia by Kieny How, on Flickr
And again, since they have the best snow, the top layer of the ground makes comfortable soft snow-bed on the tracks which allows you to make ridiculers crashes with the least amount of impact!

Usually a person who does snowboard in the first place wouldn’t learn ski because mastering both is too troublesome. As for me, I think people with snowboard are really cool so that’s the main reason I went for it and I suffered miserably – I ended up with all kind of crashes like flying up high and smashing my face hard onto the snowy ground several times which I find is not very cool at all after a while. Even though I went for Falls Creek beginner snowboard lesson and have a great Snowboard Pro to teach me how to do all the basics, I still fail to finish a track without falling regardless how easy the track is. In the end, I only managed to learn Falling Leaf (Basic) and able to ride a distance with regular but couldn’t control goofy at all.
Snowboard Pro Fil . Falls Creek Australia by Kieny How, on Flickr
With the Pro Snowboarder - My 'Shifu' Fil

So after that, during the next day (Sunday)…
Pro+Noob . Falls Creek Australia by Kieny How, on Flickr
TADA! I changed to Ski!! Hoho…
With the Pros . Falls Creek Australia by Kieny How, on Flickr

Kim . Kenny . Myself . Ding

Ski is easier, the two ‘K’ ski pro – Kim and Kenny taught me how to do all the basics and I managed to finish some easier tracks without falling – didn’t even attend any lesson!! And I’m less tired at the end of Sunday but my whole body has already soar like a blardy pig from the aftermath of snowboarding~

So over the weekend, I…

• Managed to learn the basics of both Snowboard and Ski
• Got myself 3 pro teachers – Fil (Snowboard) . Kim (Ski) . Kenny (Ski)
• Prefer Snowboarding than Ski eventhough I’m better with Ski
• Decided to pursue Snowboarding as one of my sport
• Made a promise to myself that I’m going to ride on the track without falling and with a bottle a beer!

When I was taking the snowboard lesson, the instructor told me that snowboard is easier to master but ski is easier to pick up which is true. But from my say - snowboard rocks! and ski is boring~ so I decide to hug on with snowboard…
My Snowboard! . Falls Creek Australia by Kieny How, on Flickr
WoooHooo~

Apparantly Falls Creek have this MILO Children Program which teaches kids at age around 3-5 yo to ski…
MILO Kids
Don’t play play with them… they play soccer on the snow wearing the ski equipment!! And they can smoke a lot of people on the track during a run!!!! MILO RULEZ!~!

We took heaps of photos during the trip and everyone looks like terrorist with the ski jackets and pants…
Ski Hire Place . Falls Creek Australia by Kieny How, on Flickr
Ski Hire place next to our apartment
My Snowboard Boots . Falls Creek Australia by Kieny How, on Flickr
My Nice Rented Snowboard Boots
Snowboarder . Falls Creek Australia by Kieny How, on Flickr
Pro Snowboarder Wannabe~
Break Time . Falls Creek Australia by Kieny How, on Flickr
Breaktime to melt some ice
Nice Snow Bed! . Falls Creek Australia by Kieny How, on Flickr
Snowboard Trainees~
Snowboard Group . Falls Creek Australia by Kieny How, on Flickr
Han . Wei Ling . Tiffany . Myself . Jeffery
Nice Snow!! . Falls Creek Australia by Kieny How, on Flickr
Resting on the Snow-Bed!! Very nice!!!
Ski Hire Place . Falls Creek Australia by Kieny How, on Flickr
Ski Pro vs Snowboard Pro
The Dendy Gang!! . Falls Creek Australia by Kieny How, on Flickr
Myself . Kelvin . Ren . Melanie
Snowed Cornrow . Falls Creek Australia by Kieny How, on Flickr
Tiffany’s Frozen Hair!
Ski Lift . Falls Creek Australia by Kieny How, on Flickr
On the Ski Lift with Han and Jeffery but I missed Jeffery on my left during the take~ Hoho… I’m so worried my camera might just fell off!!
Snow on Snowboard . Falls Creek Australia by Kieny How, on Flickr
Cool~!
The Cook! . Falls Creek Australia by Kieny How, on Flickr
Raymond . Myself Cooking Brekkie!!!
When the Olympic Opening got bored! . Falls Creek Australia by Kieny How, on Flickr
Watching Olympic Opening~
Posers . Falls Creek Australia by Kieny How, on Flickr
The Posers

Falls Creek Map . Click to Enlarge

Falls Creek is really big! For 2 days, I only managed to complete those tracks that I’ve highlighted in orange… The red big dot with ‘Start’ is our accomodation place… (Click here to Enlarge)

Overall everyone had fun – the apartment is comfortable, snow is great, everyone are fun and most important – the food is not bad at all~

Dinner . Falls Creek Australia by Kieny How, on Flickr
I’m satisfied!
Satisfied . Falls Creek Australia by Kieny How, on Flickr
This is what happen when we parked the car for 2 days on the mountain… Nice isn’t it?
Snowed Car . Falls Creek Australia by Kieny How, on Flickr
And then we have to chain the tires for more friction in order to drive on the snow ~
Chained Tyre . Falls Creek Australia by Kieny How, on Flickr
The weather was pretty bad away from the mountain, up the mountain was snowing and down the mountain – there’s blizzard going on, this tiny chain was helpful…

I’ll be looking forward to another Ski-Trip!!

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