Borovets Day 3

Weather:

Sunny, breeze.

Instructor:

No negative comments on my skiing today. I'll take it my hips and shoulders are much better. I feel that it is making my skis turn better with less effort. I'm also working on using a much shorter space of the run to ski and turn.

Slopes:

Meeting at the base of the gondola at 10am. Us and the entire resort! The queue came out of the gondola building, along the gondola road and turned to the main road. Around 40m of queue and a 30min wait. Horrendous!

We did a red run Mitko says it's the toughest of the resort: Markudjik 2B. It was marked as 'freestyle only'. Moguls galore! Tough work but fun.

At one point I was desperate for the toilet and not wanting to wait. I decided to just go behind the (very small) bushes. I miscalculated how deep the (unskied) snow on the sides of the run is and ended up thigh high in snow. It took some effort to unbury myself...

The majority of the group decided to do 4h straignt lesson and eat at the bottom. I was starving when we finished and cleaned up a huge plate of Penne a la carbonara in under 10min!!

Night skiing:

Between 18-21h30 one can ski at night in specially lit runs in the Stinyakovo area: Iglika, Rila, Martinovi Baraki 1, 2, 3 and 4. It is very much like skiing during the day as the lights are very powerful but with a dark sky, watching the moon and Borovets by night from the top.

For 30levs the experience is at everyone's reach. I would very much recommend coming in earlier rather than later as the chairlift was very busy from 19h and the runs felt like Sunday-crowded again.

The only downside was having to walk back to the hotel at night. The majority of the way was lit but it would have been scary for a sole person to walk.