17th March 2011 at 03:29PM

What's with the title you may ask.... well..... i was thinking about saying something really smart and sophisticated as to why it applies today but i've mainly been saying it because the snow is soft and i like the way the phrase sounds.

We woke up to some fresh snow down in Bormio today, which usually means a LOAD of snow higher up. And today was no different, a foot of new snow, ready to make fresh tracks in but instead we had to slide the hell out of the course, get the piste basher up and get the slalom going.

It took about 3 slips (from about 150 people) and a lot of shovels but we got down to something slightly harder before the 1st run, with girls and guys on the same course though it got a little bit bumpy. As for our guys, Brad was going well and was so close to the finish on the 2nd run before he took a fall, Ellie suffered the same fate and Luke took quite a bit of air which is never a good thing for slalom! 

Emily Evans had another awesome day, smashing her previous PB slalom result with an awesome 2nd run in the bumps. After skiing into 8th on the first run, it was not an easy ride and Emily did well to finish with the 4th fastest time on run 2.

Anyway, races done for this week, plan was to train slalom tomorrow, however, we will be enjoying some serious powder instead on the fat boys and twin tips. Cant wait.