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Breaking my Skiing virginity

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Many Kiwis are keen skii-ers, it's in their blood, what with having mountains covered in snow on both islands within easy reach.  Camilla had organised a ski trip which I had ummed and ahhed about going on - I've never done it before (apart from dry slope once when I was at school and I was pretty terrible) and it was looking pretty expensive and I feel like if I am going to give skiing a go, it needs to be a good go - like a week of lessons or something.  However as luck would have it, a groupon for SUPER cheap skiing came up - $50 for a day pass including ski hire, which was bloody awesome, so some of us less experienced skiiers jumped on it.  I managed to borrow ski clothes from a colleague's wife so I was all set for a cheap introduction to skiing. Me, Ben, Amy and Colin took the Friday off work and headed down to Whakapapa via the Bombay services - fast becoming our regular service stop for breakfast and coffee.  A leisurely journey, we arrived in Whakapapa at luncht