Blogs from Whistler, British Columbia, Canada, North America - page 30

Hello again, thought I'd add one more entry while I'm in Whistler, just a few words on the other things I've done besides snowboarding and some of the people I've met while I've been here. The first week I spent with one guy from Japan, one from Los Angeles, two from London and one from Melbourne. All great guys who appreciate a few beers after a day in the powder, so as you can guess we all got along quite well. One of the guys showed me a lot on the mountain and we had some great days together. The second week two guys from Sweden moved in. I got along with them the best, really my type of people, I boarded with them every day for the last 4 or 5 days and have promised ... read more

Ok so we have been a bit slack in getting a site/blog together but finally we had done it after much frustration (and money) at various Internet cafes! So as all our friends and family know we left for our travels at the end of February and spent our first week in Vancouver just basically sussing things out. We did some touristy things like going to Grouse Mountain (Vancouver's local hill) for Em's first snowboarding lesson and other general city sight seeing. We then made our way up to the 'White North' of Whistler to try and become snowboarding bums. To our surprise this happened more easily than we thought and we scored some jobs and accommodation in the first few days- too easy! We stayed there for about 5-6 weeks and then decided we would ... read more

So here we are in our third and final week here in what has recently become rainy Whistler. Last week brought heaps of fresh snow along with temperatures of -17 C, while this week a lot of the snow has tuned either icy (sore to fall on!) or slushy (wet to fall on...), however a storm is a brewin' and our fingers are crossed for a big dump of powder for our final few days of boarding. Other than boarding almost every day, we have been have been sampling the local beers and falling asleep very early (Di, sometimes at 7PM). We also went to see the weekly "Fire and Ice" show in Whistler Village where very brave (crazy?!) boarders and skiers jump through a hoop of fire, do some spins and usually wipe out (see ... read more

Take 2 shovels, 1 shopping trolley, three bored people and one nutcase (Damien) on his park board, leave in a back yard full of snow for 40 mins and look what happens.... read more

Well here we are again.... How time flys quickly when your having fun. We last left off with Chris promising that she would head to the hill shortly, or was it maybe or even probably not! Can't remember now.... but either way you will find out shortly. December appeared before we knew it and Bridget (Chris' sister) was knocking down our front door to take control of our day lounge (or now know as the Den) for the next month. Bridget kindly travelled over for 4 weeks to spend Christmas and New Years with Chris. During the end of November Chris decided that seeing as though she was going to spend as little time on the mountain skiing as possible she would spend her time working, and working is what she did. Chris started working at ... read more