Just back from a highly marvellous 2 weeks in Canada. Quality times with Sara, skiing, friends and lots of olympics. Good times indeed. The ski highlight was definitely our day Cat Skiing with Fernie Wilderness Adventures.
Category Archive for 'skiing'
totally ’stoked (again)
Posted in skiing on Mar 29th, 2009
I can assure loyal readers that I do still have a job. It’s just that there’s not much to write about or photograph in the life of an Iteration Co-ordinator for a major communications company in NE Calgary. That’s why it looks like I spend all my time skiing.
So anyway, skiing. Done some more of [...]
Fernie, mon amour!
Posted in skiing on Mar 11th, 2009
Last weekend I managed a cheeky trip down to Fernie for the first time this winter. My special lady friend (who’s called Sara, OK, SARA!) couldn’t make it but I did meet a friend who is a lady, my former housemate Ali Watts who’s doing the Nonstopski thing again:
Not only did I meet Ali but [...]
steep and deep
Posted in rugged outdoor manliness, skiing on Jan 24th, 2009
The latter half of my week in Jackson Hole at the Steep and Deep camp was great fun. So much fun in fact that I’m wondering when I can do it again.
The first morning was probably the most stressful because having ridden the first tram of the day up to the top of Rendezvous Mountain, [...]
roaming in wyoming
Posted in skiing on Jan 6th, 2009
Greetings from the great state of Wyoming! To some of you Wyoming may make you think of sulphorous old geezers but it’s not just the home of Dick Cheney. It’s also home to some of America’s best skiing, skiing I have been enjoying more than somewhat.
I’m spending a week in Jackson Hole, a resort I’ve [...]
canada’s believing in a white christmas
Posted in skiing on Dec 23rd, 2008
It may surprise some of you UK-type folks to know that Canadians can’t all take a White Christmas for granted. You’ll be forgetting that the country is 3000 miles wide so a certain amout of variety could be expected even when they do call themselves the Great White North. So it is with quite some [...]
We’ve all been places where the long-suffering locals say “If you don’t like the weather just wait 5 minutes”. Back home that can be translated as “Is it raining now? It’ll stop soon, and then start again”. These last 10 days in Calgary though have been nuts.
It all started on the Wednesday before last. It [...]
I was looking at this weekend as the grand finale of my winter sports season. Maybe not the absolute end, because with luck the season will last till May, but this was the big finish. A weekend backcountry skiing at Mount Assiniboine Lodge in Assiniboine Provincial Park in BC with my friends from frisbee playing [...]
Heard the one about the Englishman, the Pole, the other Englishman, his Dutch wife, 5 Canadians, a Belgian couple, the woman from Kazakhstan and her mate from Belarus who walk into a ski resort? Me neither, until this weekend but that was the incredibly multi-national group I went skiing with courtesy of the Calgary Outdoor [...]
welcome to fabulous rossvegas
Posted in skiing on Feb 24th, 2008
I love it when things live up to the hype. Like that time a few Christmasses back when Casablanca was on the telly. I’d never seen it and I was thinking it couldn’t be as good as everyone says, but it was! Well last weekend I had the skiing equivalent of finally seeing Casablanca, I [...]