As has been the case the last two days, we awoke to rain on the roof. Oh no, not another day of reduced skiing at Falls Creek.
Turned on the iPad to check the radar and it looked that the rain was just about to pass us with another couple of hours at least before the first cold front made it to us.
A quick bite of breakfast and we got up to the top of the mountain as the rain stopped at 10:30 am.
We skied until 1:00 pm mainly on the northern slopes of Main Street and Highway 83.
After some lunch, (the prices certainly haven’t got any cheaper at Cloud 9) Rachael grabbed the snowboard and headed off for a lesson. The rest of us made our way across to Ruined Castle and Scott’s for the afternoon.
The first cold front hit with about 6 spots of rain and a couple of flakes of snow, so we continued skiing.
Around 3:00 pm, the wind started picking up – a precursor of the second and stronger of the cold fronts.
Rachael had finished here lesson at 3:30 pm, so we did a few more runs with her but the rain was starting followed by sleet. It was time to head back to the Lodge.
It was lucky that we headed down when we did as they shut the lifts down 15 minutes later due to the risk of lightning.
The rain came in strong as we just got into the Lodge (that was lucky), followed by some heavy snow but this was only short-lived, lasting about 30 minutes.
The rest of the evening has been a mixture of rain, sleet, hail and snow so it will be interesting what the slopes are like in the morning and if we will get a full day. 🙂
As well as the GPS I carry in the pocket, I tried an App on the iPhone today called Alpine Replay which seemed promising except that the battery on the phone ran flat 3/4 through the day. Tomorrow I will shut everything down on the phone apart from the App and see if I can get some more time out of it.
