I had the opportunity to chaperone the grade 10 Ski Day yesterday. The school is introducing Adventure Learning to our curriculum and in the winter, it is “Snow”. It is rewarding to teach students how to ski and see them gain confidence and skills. I was assigned 4 intermediate level students and we were working on going to the top of the mountain and feeling comfortable going down difficult runs. Two boys especially completed courses from the top gondola for the first time!
My daughter Ocean attended also and I had the opportunity later in the day to assist her group when a chaperone went down. We had fun with her friends. The resort was a bit restricted with extra military and police presence. Belarussian president Alexander Lukashenko is visitng Tashkent this week and I guess a part of his entourage was at the resort. The top gondola was closed for most of the morning with only security people going up and down. Eventually it opened up and provided for a good day. The morning was spent honing our skills on the “green” slopes and the chair lift and the afternoon on the “blue” and “red” slopes serviced by the higher altitude gondola. Amirsoy is a nice resort to have in our backyard with 660 meters (2,165 feet) of vertical drop.
Snow levels were deep on both the lower and upper slopes. We’ve had quite a bit of recent snow in the mountains but I fear warmer temperatures in the forecast are going to melt a lot of it.
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