After a year or two, skiing became sad, you had to snowboard. It was way cooler.
Friends joined us to fill up the 11-bed chalet over the years. Youngs, du Toits, Naudes, Chriches and Ogilvies.
The instructors were great to the kids. Bronwyn, Brad & Wynand were special faves!
Some years there was free snow, some years only the machine snow.
The older the kids got the more popular the pubs became!
In the featured pic above the heading our ‘Estonia-type’ chalet is off to the far right. It’s the middle one in the picture below. It sleeps 11 people and is wonderfully comfy and warm as toast – very well insulated, double-glazed. Its called ‘St Moritz’ for some reason. It used to be called Estonia No.5. I’d have preferred a Sesotho name! Anyway, a rose by any other name . . . Maybe Mahae – ‘rural home’ or ‘rustic home’.
The new chalets they’re selling are smaller, modern, square, lots of glass. They’re OK. They call them ‘edgy,’ probly cheaper to transport and erect. But they’re nothing like our old “Estonian Wooden Chalet”!
We bought one week of winter skiing (plus three weeks in summer) and we have used it seven winters in the ten years we’ve had it. Now I would sell if I got a buyer. Someone could get a bargain for the last five years, especially if two families shared it.
~~~oo0oo~~~
Bewilderbeast Droppings 
About two weeks ago we slept at Ox Bow Lodge (two more lodges are being built) and tried to pop into Afriski for coffee on our way to Sani.
The gate wanted R20 each so we bypassed Afriski. They have constructed off-road bike and bicycle tracks which criss-cross the slope.
Incidentally there is now a magnificent tar road with crash barriers that runs thru to Sani Top.
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