Harbin, Day Two

I spent the morning of Day 2 on a three-hour drive to a mountain resort called Yabuli, which was the site of the 1996 Asian Winter Games.

The place was nice enough but, sad to say, it looked to not have changed very much since '96...I set my things down in my hotel room and wasted no time getting geared up to hit the slopes! 

I like to start off with the warm-up runs, like the photo below, before I do any tricky runs :-) 

As I mentioned in the Day 1 post, Harbin is cold! I remembered my Boy Scout days when I proudly earned my 'polar bear' badge for braving the elements and camping in -17 degree weather for a night with my dad and the troop in Fraser, CO. Well, it's a bit different for people who grow up in this climate! The next morning, I went out early to snap sunrise-over-the-hills pictures, and, much to my inner Boy Scouts dismay, I see a crew of workers who spend every night in tents in below 0 weather! They were moving about like the 6:30am cold was nothing at all!