Skiing at Mt Selwyn

Last week saw us down in the Snowy Mountains. Staying at Angler's Reach and skiing at Mt Selwyn. We drove down on the Saturday, arriving in the early evening. On the Sunday we just relaxed in our cottage - going out only briefly for a wander down to Lake Eucumbene - the water level hasn't improved since last year - in fact it's probably a little bit lower (so it's ridiculously low). On the Monday we went up to Mt Selwyn in the morning. The weather was rough - low visibility, drizzle - yuck. We decided to go skiing in the afternoon - to avoid getting soaked and giving up by lunch time. So to kill some time we drove up to Cabramurra - the highest town in Australia. There's not a lot there - but they did have a general store/coffee shop so that kept us occupied for an hour or so. They had some great photos of Land Rovers from the 1950's working on the Snowy Hydroelectric project. In the afternoon we put the kids into ski school so Caroline and I had a nice afternoon skiing without them (oops - should I say that?). In fact we had such a nice time that we put them into a full day of ski school on the Tuesday - so we had 1.5 days in total of skiing sans petit enfants - nice! On the Wednesday we took it in turns to ski with Dave and look after Chels. On the Thursday we had a late start, toboganning a bit in the morning, Chels in ski school in the afternoon which meant Dave, Caroline and I could then ski together. Dave's skiing is coming along nicely - he certainly has absolutely no fear when it comes to launching himself down steep blue runs at high speed. In fact he needs to be a bit more cautious (like his old and weary parents). Apart from the not so good weather on the first day we then had absolutely glorious days - sunny, crystal clear and cold! In fact one morning while driving up to the ski fields the car registered an outside temperature of -7C... now that's nippy. As usual I managed to take some photos just click HERE and go to '2010'.