Tag: Skiing

  • Black Run

    Black Run

      Maddie’s skiing has come on in leaps and bounds and this year she did her first black run in Samoens, not only that but it wasn’t pisted and she didn’t fall over! Proud Dad moment! Just hope I can still keep up with her in the years to come.

  • Skiing Again

    It’s been a while since Maddie last went skiing so we weren’t sure how she would get on. We needn’t have worried though as apart from a dodgy first lesson where the instructor only spoke French she made fabulous progress and loved it do much I even had to ski in the rain with her!…

  • Visit to the new Snow Centre

    Well Hemel snow centre finally opened and having driven past the building site every day for the the last 18 months it was nice to see what they had achieved. Ok so they’ve built a nice looking indoor Ski slope which no matter how large they claim it to be is still too short to…

  • Maddie’s 2nd Ski Lesson

    Finally the sun came out and normal service was resumed on the skiing front. Maddie has taken to skiing well although at this stage skiing really just means shuffling about on skis on very flat snow. Still you have to start somewhere. I’ve no doubt that give it a few years and she’ll be hurtling…