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February 1st 2008

Published: February 12th 2008

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Hey All,

Well January has been busy for me. Once I got out of the Monashees after New Years, I spent a little time over on Vancouver Island before moving out to Revelstoke, home of the new Revelstoke Mountain Resort.

My friend Jordan and I decided that this would make an interesting place to set up shop for a couple months this year and be ski bums for the inaugural year of the ski resort destined to become the ‘next Whistler’. With almost 1 billion dollars in investment planned over the next 15 years, this sleeply little town of 8500 people is undeniably going to change. We felt that it would be interesting to get to know this place and the potential of its surrounding mountains before the big change occurs.

So far we have been busy, it’s a tough life to snowboard everyday you know. Not like one of those cushy office jobs where your wrists get sore from typing too much, this job of snowboarding is full burl. Cliff drops, powder slashes, tree riding, whah, what work. And then it snows some more and then you have that terrible job of trying to push through all