David, Bien, Huy and I headed to Mt Hotham early last Friday morning for a fun filled weekend of snowboarding. Tu and Nghia couldn’t take time off work so they headed up later that evening. We were all very excited as snow reports forecasted excellent snow coverage and conditions for the weekend.

We hit the slopes about lunchtime on Friday and man, the conditions were just fantastic! It was the best snow I had ever experienced. It was just so beautifully soft and dry which made for excellent snowboarding. Plus the sun was out all day long and visibility was great.

Saturday was ok. The conditions weren’t as good as the day before but they were still good. The boys headed out early for a full day of snowboarding. I was a little tired and sore from the previous day so I headed out after lunch.

Sunday arrived and it was time to get ready to head home. It snowed during the night so there was fresh snow everywhere. We had a few hours before we had to check out of our apartment so we decided to head out for some snow play. It was just so beautiful with snow falling ever so gently. I had never experienced such calm snowfall so it was just so amazing. It made for the perfect end to my best ever weekend of snowboarding so far.

Stoj, David, Bien, Huy, Nghia and myself headed up to Mt Buller this morning. We were all excited as it was the first trip of the season. The season only officially started last weekend but there has been very little to no snowfall. Luckily, enough snow fell in last couple of days (together with man made snow) for us to head up for some snowboarding.

Only the Bourke St run was open but that was enough to satisfy our snowboarding cravings especially since the conditions were so clear and beautiful. We couldn’t have hoped for a better day.

Here are some of the photos from today. The last two were taken at Mansfield where we had a pizza for dinner. Between the six of us we managed to down a total of 3 large and 3 medium pizzas!

It was my third and most likely my last snow trip for the season yesterday. It was me, Nghia, David, Stoj, Bien and Huy who made the drive up to Mt Buller for the day to hit the slopes and sharpen our snowboarding skills. Great weather made the average conditions all the better. The snow coverage was a bit patchy and the snow a little sluggish. Still, the warm and sunny weather made it all good.

So yeah it was a great day of boarding without any nasty falls. We even all gave the rail park a go this time. Now that was fun. Check out the group photo below which was taken at the end of the day when we were all pretty buggered.

I headed up to Mt Buller yesterday with David and Nghia for my first snow trip of the season since coming back from Vietnam and man was it a blast. It wasn’t windy, the skies were blue and the visibility was excellent. I couldn’t have hoped for better conditions.

I thought I’d be a little unco on the board with it being my first day of the season and all but to my surprise I managed quite well. The snow was a little slushy softened up by the sun and warmish weather so the slowish conditions sure helped. So yeah, all in all it was a mad day. Check out the photos.

As most of you now know, I’m now residing in Ho Chi Minh City in Vietnam. Yes, I came back again. I’ll talk more about that another time.

Anyways, I just wanted to share a video compilation I made of a few of us boys (Jeryl Cabantog, David Thai, Kham Tran, Nghia Vu) snowboarding at Mt Buller this year. Don’t we rock?

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