Sorry for the delay in any blogs, the interweb down here is poor at best. We are now in Argentina though which is wonderful and has high speed internet... Back to 11 days ago. I (Iain) decided that I had had enough of Inca ruins and museums and wanted some adventure. Whilst in La Paz (Bolivia) booked in to mountain bike down the most dangerous road in the world (MDRW). For those of you who don´t know what this, google it! Basically its about 40km of dirt track that goes from about 3500m elevation to 1100m between two places in bolivia. [View Full Entry]

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Hello All. Once again apologies for the infrequency of the blog updates - I have to admit it is mainly through laziness and frustration with slow internet connections. We´ll we´ve travelled a fair way since we lef the Colca Canyon and are now in a rather lovely part of North West Argentina staying with some wonderful hosts Alex and Rijkje (spelling may not be quite right) of Casa Hernandez. We´ve arrived here via Bolivia and Chile but I´d better start back in the distant past in Cusco, Peru. We weren´t that impressed wiith Cusco initially, the bus dropped us in a [View Full Entry]

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Any worries we had about bus travel soon dissapated as we made the 15hr journey to Arequipa in comfort and style aboard a very luxurious new bus. As the railway service is non existant for public travel in Peru and air travel is pretty pricey the buses are the main long distance transport and therefore much better than you would imagine. For about $50 USD each we got cushioned leather seats that reclined 160 degrees, 2 meals, films and bingo. Fantastic. We arrived in Arequipa in the morning and the hotel pickup was waiting for us just outside, it can get [View Full Entry]

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Hello everyone hope you are all well! We have covered a lot of miles in the last 10 days, Whistler - Vancouver- London- Leicester via Ashdon (it´s in Essex for those of you who don´t know) - Birmingham - Newark - Lima. So as you can imagine there hasn´t been much time to update anything really. We said our goodbyes to the snow and wonderful scenery and people of BC and have been enjoying the heat and bustle of Lima for the past couple of days. We´re staying in Barranco, a seaside suburb outside of the city centre, and what a [View Full Entry]

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We spent the weekend before last down in Vancouver which no doubt Helen will continue with her quality blogs on in the next few days. It rained quite a lot down in the city which is not an uncommon event, this meant it was snowing heavily in Whistler which I was missing out on! In order to get my fill of late season powder and also partly as I was starting to feel a bit unfit I fancied a long hike out in the backcountry to get some deep and steep turns in I got in touch with a few other [View Full Entry]

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Sorry for yet another delayed Blog entry! Last weekend (4th April) I (Iain) went off with 3 other guys I've met out here for a day at Powder Mountain Cat Skiing. Basically this involved a group of 12 of us heading off into the amazing back country down the road from Whistler and getting ferried about the mountains in a snow cat whilst snowboarding fresh untracked powder. This is was a real treat for all of us, riding deep powder is the reason why we are all here, its a sensation that is very hard to describe but is probably as [View Full Entry]

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Hmm sorry everyone, it seems that the last blog post was some 30 days ago which makes us alot lazier than we thought. Actually this entry was started on the 15th March but we shelved it for reasons we can't remember. Anyway better late than never... As life in Whistler settled into a routine we decided to take a break and head out to Vancouver Island for a week. We caught the ferry from Horseshoe bay to Departure bay in Nanaimo, the crossing took about 1hr 30min, luckily the weather was perfect, sunny and clear so no sea sickness. As we [View Full Entry]

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Over the last weekend I (iain) and one of the lads I've met out here (Lez) did a 2.5 day Avalanche Awareness Course and am now qualified by the Canadian Avalanche Centre - Avalanche Skills Training Level 1. The course started on Friday night with 3 hours in the classroom (quite a while since I'd done anything like that) learning all about what causes avalanches and what to look for to avoid getting caught in one, what to do if you get caught in one and finally how to rescue people who manage to get caught in one. Saturday we went [View Full Entry]

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Last Saturday we went on our snowshoeing excursion to the Lost Lake. Snow shoes are great as they make it really easy to walk along even fairly icy slopes. Iain who had been quite indifferent was immediatley converted and even made noises about getting some of his own. Walking took a bit of getting used to as they make your feet about twice as wide and at least twice as long so you have to adjust your stance for that otherwise you are forever treading on yourself increasing the potential for tripping over. The trail we followed lead us through the [View Full Entry]

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We had a great time last week with our friends Anna and Steve over here on holiday. The weather was great all week and we were sorry to have to wave them off on Sunday, the lucky pair were upgraded on the flight home which I am sure softened the pain of going back to work. Olympic fever has hit Whistler this past week, with the 1 year countdown starting on the 12th. The village centre has been over run with TV crews as they get ready for the celebrations. There's barely room to swing a snowboard so to speak, although [View Full Entry]

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