Me and the Butcher brothers, Duane and Clinton, make up the Australian trio working at Geilolia Ski School. Preparations started on Friday afternoon as we started shoveling snow from Clinton's roof onto his front porch. The initial plan was to make an igloo to house the party guests and set up a barbeque out the front. Still being reasonably unfamiliar with snow shenanigans - my enthusiasm got the better of me and what should have been 5 minutes of snow shoveling turned into about 3 hours. After building up the snow mountain with snow from the roof we hurled ourselves into the powdery field below to start hollowing out the cave. We needed to be careful about it as the unstable structure had the potential to collapse at any moment. Between digging I kept looking at the holes we'd made jumping off the roof- these formed the beginnings of our ice bar.

As the Barbeque began to sink slowly into the snow over the course of the night so too did people sink indoors out of the cold. We ended up having just over 20 people at the party and a good 15 of them made it out on our party bus to off piste. The Spark VM was on the same weekend so there was actually a pretty decent sized crowd out. A big night of drinking and dancing ensued. One of the best I've had since New Years Eve.
Good onya Aussie.
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