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Dad Skiing off-piste on a sunny day in La Plagne.<\/i><\/p>\n
One of my earliest memories of my dad is him teaching me how to ski. In this two second snapshot of a memory we are in the Cairngorms National Park in Scotland, my dad is telling me to make a pizza slice with my skis, my mum, in the background, carries my newborn baby brother in a papoose. A few years later, my brother and I, and our triplet stepbrothers and two stepsisters were photographed amidst the snowy Scottish mountains, tiny dots of skiers, that in hindsight must have looked quite funny trailing down the slopes behind my father (we later found out that photograph was blown up 3m tall and displayed at the bottom of the Cairngorms Funicular, it is still there\u00a016 years later!<\/span><\/span>).<\/p>\n
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Photo of my brother, step-brothers and sisters and I aged 5-9 at the bottom of the Cairngorms Furnicular.<\/i><\/p>\n
As I write this, my family and I are driving back from the French Alps where we have spent a gloriously sunny and snowy week shredding the trails of La Plagne and Les Arcs. We tiny dots have grown into fantastic skiers, even if I do say so myself, thanks to my former ski instructor of a father whose days of snow-plowing, pole planting diagrams drawn in the snow and sidestepping up mountains or skiing down button lifts to pick up fallen little ones have finally granted him 7 brilliant ski buddies who he (semi-jokingly) now struggles to keep up with! Skiing has become a passion of all of ours that we now pass on to our friends and partners and one day children of our own, teaching them to ski with each and every one of them getting ‘Hobbsed’ (chucked off a chairlift at the top of a run they definitely weren’t ready for or expecting) at some point.<\/p>\n
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Dad teaching Con, Megan, Hannah and I to turn in the Cairngorms, with snow diagrams.<\/i><\/p>\n
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