“Skis are not just pieces of wood, steel & fiberglass. They are tools for escape, a medium for personal expression, a way to challenge fears, push limits and share incredible experiences with your friends.” – Unknown
Yesterday has been a special day for me, not only the weather started magically and have been wanting to go on a bigger skiing resort for a long time. I've also listened myself, my inner voice and listened to what I truly wanted. Had a day off as I worked for the weekend so as I woke up early at 5.30am without alarm I got up, made coffee with some eggs for breakfast, packed my stuff, boot and loaded my snowboard in the car.
When I got out of my apartment a truly beautiful sunrise was following me, while getting to my Passat, warmed it up a little bit and started my journey to a skiing resort Kope I never visited it before. Have talked about it for a long time, made many plans with friends and colleagues to go there on night shift snowboarding, but never did. Yesterday was a day that I faced my fears, went out of my comfort zone, out into unknown and had one of my best snowboarding days with many kilometers shredded threw the snowy slopes.
Got to the top of skiing resort at around 10.00am warmed up myself, enjoyed in the amazing view without a cloud while dressing up my gear, took my backpack with me and off I went.
It started with a clear blue sky without a cloud, getting familiar with the place and going on the shortest slope I found to get the feeling and trying out a new way to get up the slope I never tried before, but with a few jokes and seeing how a couple got on top, I took a ride that pulled me on the top, it was easy, another overcome fear!
Then I went straight to where everyone were skiing that got me to the chairlift and so my journey started, with one of my biggest fears, a fear of height.
After several rides, discovering other less popular, a bit more technical slopes I wanted to sit down for a bit, maybe drink a nice hot tea, rest my legs and then continue my journey. I stopped at a cottage where for me it totally looked like a bar at around 12.30 where path got me to a unexpected private cottage, where I soon realized that there isn't a bar. There were plenty of super friendly, positive group where great energies were felt from far and lot's of instruments laying all around. Was offered a small warm beer, a chair to rest legs a tiny bit, a small chat and got invited to a 'tiny concert' there will be on the night time and skiing.
Thanked them politely, added a few jokes, shared few more loughs, mentioned I might come back and continued my journey exploring all the 7 kilometers of skiing slopes Kope has to offer. Yeah I know it's a tiny compared to other skiing resort's in Alps, but it's 100% more I ever snowboarded before. On top of that sLOVEnia is a tiny country, but it really is lovely and everything is close.
Threw the day I heared them playing many times on chairlift, while passing their cottage with some really good rock music.
As the sun started going down I really got the urge to go ski in the night as I knew exackly what and how the resort operated with the slope that's open in night time. After an hour rest, driving back to tiny town Slovenj Gradec to get a night skiing ticket. When I returned to Kope's skiing resort, dressed up and got back on the snow I still had several minutes to wait before they started to operate chairlift again.
There I met a snowboarder I joined on the chairlift and randomly chatted on the way to the top, when she asked if I want to be her "board buddy". I had such an unexpected, energy filling day I said sure thing! Pushed myself to catch her up with her 9 years of skiing and a different snowboard that is made for prepared surface & need4speed. There I fought yet another fear of real speed on the board, fear of falling at that speed and enjoyed the present moment without thoughts, pure focus.
Ended the day at that cottage, where we shared some experience, got to know eachother, had a quick live 'concert' and even learned that they are a rock band, the Imset band. At 21.30 we said goodbye, good luck and got invited to a real concert of theirs on 26.3. in our capital city Ljubljana I'm really serious of going too. It has been years since last concert or a party I went too, but I really do like going out of my comfort zone.
A special day where I learned a lot about myself, was kind of meditating on chairlift, many, many kilometers shredded threw the snow, a ton of fun, joy and self growth as I was able to see how far I came in last year, even snowboarding experience improved!
I'm trully honnored for this kind of platform where it is possible to store these kind of moments I will never forget and share my experience of the day with you all. Super grateful to be alive, healthy, that I'm able to think with my own mind, to meet so positive people, that I push myself threw my old fears, believes, bad habits and be able to slowly improve my life where I focus on here and now, while focusing on present moment.
Thank you for being a part of it!
Wishing you a good day or a good night and a good life, dear friend.
“It’s better to go skiing and think of God, than go to church and think of sport.” – Fridtjof Nansen
Imagination is everything it is the preview of life's coming attractions -Albert Einstein
Til next time, stay awesome... Happy, Strong & Healthy my friends !
