Snowboarding experience

Last __day (forgot which day and when already, hehe), Yuriy brought me to the Sports Club in Habarskoe (~1 hour away from Nizhny Novgorod) to snowboarding with his girl friend as he promised me since January ))))

This was the first time me snowboarding. I didn't have to rent for snowboard because Yuriy borrowed a snowboard from his friend. I just had to pay for the snowboard lift.

Snowboard/ Ski lift

It's hard to control the board and speed at first since the snow was melting and what left below was ice. After a few attempts I could snowboard as free willy (Not you, Willy)

My ass was frozen and hurt, but the ecstasy kept my spirit burning
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This is the scheme of the skiing tracks in Habarskoe. I snowboarded in the long track beside the yellow track.

While I tried to go down to the end of the track, Yuriy told me to walk up to the top and practise again until I mastered everything. I figured why because we've paid for the lift. So I tried to be a good student and walk back up again and glide down and up and down and up and down and...........

Since it was tiring to go up and down the hill, finally I decided to go till the very end so that I could take a break climbing up hill by taking the snowboard lift. I waited for Yuriy to come and tell me how to lift myself up to the top. He prep me up to lift. And then I went up and up and suddenly I tripped down. I was pulled by the lift while laying down on snow while trying to recover.

The lift stopped (I guess someone must have seen be being dragged up, hahaha). I stood up again. Then the lift started again to lift people up. Not long after the first drop down, I tripped again. This time the lift didn't stop. I struggled to recover but failed. I could see that the lift cable became so long because I was still pulling it.

I struggled and failed and decided to get dragged up while laying on the ground. It was kinda embarassing but fun because no one had ever dragged themselves up so far like me. While I was almost to the top, I let go of the lift and walked up the final slope. The 2 men behind me shouted "Уважаю!! Respect!!".

When I reached the top, Yuriy was laughing so hard. He helped me to sweep the snow on my jacket, and both of them told me ---- To come up by using lift is the hardest thing to do here.

What the hell?? LOL I was like -_-"

Now I know why Yuriy asked me to climb up the

Phew.....felt so great to be the clown of the night. Ngahahahaha!!!

Yuriy and Tanya

This is Tanya, Yuriy's gf.

And this is Yuriy, the master of snowboard. LOL

Kochi~