Life This Week 17/9/2018: Have You Ever…


Have you ever been to the snow?
For someone who’s grown up in the dry heat of Perth, the snow will always be a source of awe and wonder.  I’ve made two trips to the snow in my life and both holidays felt both more adventurous and invigorating than any other kind of place I’ve ever visited.
Firstly there’s that sky.  It’s impossibly, vividly blue.  Streaks and swirls of cloud seem to dance across it yet there’s a stillness to the air.  I’m so used to the blue skies of the city presiding over noise and movement.  The snow seems to command that we stop, breathe and live in the beautiful moment.

The second thing that captivates me when I’m in the snow is that alpine air.  I imagine that your take on the air would be very different if you were trying to get about your daily life in below freezing conditions, but as a visitor, I love the air here.  I love it’s sharp coldness on my face, it’s purity as it hits my lungs and how it whistles ever so gently as I cut though it in a gondola.

Though I was a bit scared when I decided to look down during one of my gondola rides.

Some ski and some snow board while others snow shoe but do you know what my favourite way of travelling through the snow is?  Riding in a sled.  It’s hard not to release your inner child as you slide this way and that down a hill while sitting on a piece of plastic and clinging onto its ropes for dear life!

Have you ever been to the snow?

What’s your favourite part about being there?


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