We were planning on going snowboarding today. With the weather outside a balmy 9C and not a snowflake in site, this could have proved difficult – thankfully about 45 minutes away from us is Xscape. So 14 scouts headed up there for a beginners snowboarding lesson. Once the nightmare of sorting boards, waterproofs, boots, helmets and gloves was sorted out, we headed up to their beginners slope and then had an enjoyable two hours – spent mostly falling over! It takes scouts about three sessions (2 hours each) to get to a standard where they are able to come down a slope without hurting either themselves or anyone else so we will be returning with some of the more hardy souls next week for the next lesson….
