Blogs from Fernie, British Columbia, Canada, North America - page 3

You know, you'd think that the longer I stay here and the more I learn from these pro's, the better my riding gets and the more seriously I take this snowboarding lark. But no my friends. It seems that as my riding gets better, the more I am expected to ride whilst hindered by big silly outfits and heavy gold chains. Just when we thought we were safe from dressing up and making tits of ourselves on the hill, Wednesday 5th of March arrives and with it comes "Bling day". For one day only, the Fernie posse invaded the slopes pimped up gangsta style! Small children were ushered into shop doorways by concerned adults us as we swaggered through the town holding our crotches and saying "yeahhh boyeeee" a lot. The slopes were turned into a ... read more

I PASSED! Five weeks in and the fools have given me a license to teach people how to snowboard! YEAH BABY! But as rewarding as passing Level 1 is, I'm bloody glad it's over. No matter how confident you think your riding and teaching is, you just never know. The weather really helped - it stopped snowing and the sun has been beating down for the passed few days - perfect. So, the week went roughly like this; The first two days - Tuesday and Wednesday, were rider assessment days. We were taken around various terrain on the mountain by an assessor, and marked on our riding ability. Then on the Thursday we were split into groups of seven and told to teach two lessons each, one in the morning and another in the afternoon. My ... read more

Hi guys, It's been a great week and we are enjoying a relaxing weekend. Thursday was a great day for boarding with fantastic sunny weather (but not so much as to melt the snow). We both started the day with our private lesson and continued practised what we had learned for the rest of the day. The evening entertainment was tobogganing for Valentine's Day. This meant going down the nursery slope in the pitch black on plastic sheets, bum sleds, small snowboards and real sleds. How no one was hurt i do not know! Was great fun esp. watching those people climbing back up the slope diving out of the way of those sledging down. The dog sledding (or slaying as one of the group referred to it as!) was a great way to start the ... read more

It's been a while, and apologies to all those that are using the blog to keep across our comings and goings. Truthfully, Anne and I have settled into our new routines nicely, with the pace of Fernie lifestyle exerting it's influence over the speed at which we accomplish activities. It's like our pace is as equally influenced by sub zero temperatures as are water molecules. It's above zero today, (1 degree), which brings me up to about typing speed, hence the blog update... :-) The season has been absolutely awesome. Local's say it's the best since 2000. (The one's that ski that is - the others who have to shovel snow say it's the worst..) We have had some tremendous skiing, and the snow really descended for our friends Marc, Lena and Marcella whilst they were ... read more

Hi guys, It's a poor show but it's been a while since we've written; esp. from me (adam)! We finished our week of Pow on good form with instructor Glen with the usual Thirsty Thursday drinks in the resort Griz bar. This was followed by a lift home by Glen in his huge truck doing doughnuts in the car park in the snow! The weekend was full with an avalanche safety course (the first day being class based) which felt like being back at uni, but was interesting, esp. watching the cheesy 90's video with multi coloured one-piece ski suits! Sunday was our first lie in for a while and the afternoon snowmobiling. With 2 others losing their deposit so far we were quite anxious about crashing but soon forgot about that and went for it. ... read more