cammy woke at some point and said dad its time to get up , ! i said ok and we both went back to sleep! , then at 08:45 Ali banged the door are you two sleepy heads not wanting breakfast ? oops !last for breakfast we were then , !, we already had our ski passes so after breakfast we headed to the hire shop for our skis , its been over ten years that we have been skiing annually as a group so you would think we would be sort of knowledgeable about what we need /don't need ! but its a developing thing and our needs change and adapt with us , so you would think we could walk into the hire shop to pick up our skis and tell the staff I am a skier of this hight and weight of this level and i need these skis and in cammys case these boots and skis me and ali take our own boots but,, cammy doesn't want his own boots he reckons that he hates ski boots of all types and the hire ones are possibly the latest model and he is happier with that , as for types of skies we now just book the expensive package allowing us to change our skis depending on the slopes conditions, so the first morning we rock up to the ski hire shop and say intermediate al terrain skis ,and head out on the slopes i did look at cammy while he was debating his boots with the shop assistant thinking ! somethings not right with this conversation will i go over and speak with them ? but i decided he was an adult not requiring dads help at his age ,
so off we set first day in the slopes together in 2018 up the nasserien chairlift ,some poor kid had left their helmet in our bubble car i gave the attendant a shout about it , it was mental we were all out of sorts with no leader. we done four runs in the first couple of hours and out the those 4 runs 2of them were black runs ! we hadn't had a stretch or a warm up we just hit the slopes with zero plan , we had no bob organising us and no beginner to look after so none of the three of us had a map or a plan ! we were just getting into or onto chairlifts and bubble cars and saying to each other where do you wanna go ?
but for cammy things were the worst ever he was falling a lot ! we have skied together enough now to know his wasn't right he was having trouble with his skies and boots he never falls but today he fell over the whole day at least 7 times probably more . so we headed back to the ski hire shop where he change the boots .he had chosen the freestyle black crow skies time he moaned a lot about these things , as a personal choice and had chosen to ski wearing a backpack on for the first so there was a combination of things causing his falls , we changed the boots as he said he couldn't feel his feet ,then we had a bowl of soup and beers in fang bar for lunch , cammy didn't fall as much in the afternoon but was unsure if it was the new boots or wearing a backpack !never mind the sun was out and the snow was good so we had a pleasant days skiing we had a quick beer stop at houglestahl it had the biggest disco ball I've ever seen
After that we done a few more runs and had stopped for a beer at Krazy kangaroo we decided to call it a day on the slopes as the area was extremely busy and the ski back into town was going to be a congested run ,we were all tired and a schnapps with another beer at a place called basecamp was in order before we made our way back to the chalet for cake and coffee before dinner , we also had time for a quick beer in tom dooleys before dinner and with no power snooze ,i was shattered after dinner we nearly never went out but decided to walk up the street to keller bar where i got some draught Guinness first day in st anton was a success ,the thing about cameron choosing to bring a new ski jacket is he has been skiing in his orange jacket for years and I’ve grown used to scanning the slopes his red ski jacket , the amount of times i lost him today as we are going at pace over the pistes i keep looking for the red jacket and he has changed to blue so i have started to look for the white helmet ,
so a few beers at keller bar to end our night bring the end of a good day on the slopes we were all tired anyway so no march up the high st
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