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Snowboarding never really appealed to me, I always preferred a hot holiday rather than a cold one, probably because I’m from England so I don’t get to see the sun much. I was eventually persuaded to go on a snowboarding holiday in Scotland, in a small town called Avimore, near Inverness and I had the time of my life!

I was pretty scared at first and neither me nor my friend had been before and decided to do it the cheap way and not get an instructor. We hired out the boards and a few other bits, but forgetting the goggles so I spent the whole day squinting to try and get the snow out of my eyelashes, unsuccessfully!

We arrived, fully kitted out in our snow gear (minus the goggles of course!), and the first hurdle came as soon as we got out of the bus – getting up the slope! Instead of chair lifts there were T-bar’s, everyone else made it look easy, just stand, swipe the t-bar between your legs and glide up the mountain. My male friend went first and failed miserably getting dragged face down in the snow, while I stood back trying to conceal that fact that I was wetting myself with laughter he continues, making the same mistake each time. By this time I am finding it hard to breathe as I am laughing so much, luckily I get an offer from one of the instructors to help get me up the slope so I didn’t have to go through the same embarrassing face-in-snow procedure as my friend.

I found snowboarding fairly easy but had no idea how to stop so just threw myself back in the snow, obviously that’s not the proper way of doing things but it seemed to work for me, I also didn’t realise that people zig-zagged to ensure they didn’t go to fast – I’m pretty sure I must have come close to breaking the land speed record and was scared I was going to run someone down! My friend continued with his difficulties and even lost the board from his feet which knocked me off mine! How can you loose the board from your feet?? - Its attached!

All in all I had a great day and I would definitely consider doing it again, but maybe with a lesson or two next time!

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