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snow!!

And more snow. Soft and fluffy for a weekend at Mt Stirling, infinitely more appealing than paying $95 for a lift ticket to queue at Mt Buller.

Pointing and laughing at the people over on Buller

Because the snow? The snow was good. And we hardly had to share – certainly not with millions of snivelling school kids.

Tree lurking on horizon line as the sun sets.

Skiier lurking suspiciously on snow-covered mountain as the sun sets.

Then came the snow shovel races!

Meanwhile, we spent the weekend cowering in fear in the face of the fluoro yellow pants of DOOOOOM

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too sunny for snow

Another nice day at the snow at Lake Mountain – it was much sunnier this time, t-shirt skiing weather. The hoards were out though. Thankfully we arrived early, and stayed out the back. Then after the snow turned to slush, we went and hiked up Mt St Leonard. Then I found some blossoms. Then I went home. The end.

Edit – And I just realised that Gary McDonald is in Mouline Rouge. I’ll have to assume I never realised it was him before because I was too used to thinking of him as Arthur.

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the snow fairy

I closed my eyes tight, and wished very hard, and the snow fairy came. And brought enough snow to ski on. At least he’s trying.

(Yes, in this case when I say ski I mean cross-country skiing. It was a pleasant way to spend a morning, although my skating muscles were burning most of the way around)

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dear weather

Dear weather

This is what snow looks like (feel free to take your time looking at this images, examine them carefully):

 

 

Now, I would appreciate it if you could manage something like this. It will involve cold temperatures, and some precipitation (preferably localised in the alpine areas, but I’ll understand if you have to invoke a larger and more general area of rain). Really, it shouldn’t be too difficult. You managed to get it pretty cold about a month back, and you’ve had it raining fairly often over the last couple of weeks. Please, just see what you can do. Because you’re not reaching the performance goals outlined in the work agreement we had you sign earlier this year. And I’d hate to have to get rid of you.

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nailing dead bodies to trees

There was no alpine start for this ascent, but he hiked up a mountain because it was there. More accurately, we hiked up a hill because it was there. Apparently it was also snow covered though, with the snow melting in the sunlight and dripping onto us (when it had tired of just brushing off onto us as we walked through snow dusted shrubbery).

After visiting the hill (Mt Torbreck, out near Taggerty and Eildon), we also found some of the melted snow hurling itself off a small cliff.