No news is good news right?

Well i have nothing new to report from yesterday. The Course went into day 2 and came out not knowing much more - my skiing has changed and Dean pushed me for performance today. I cant interpret this to say i am doing OK or not. Tomoz the teaching starts so here's the bit i aint looking forward to! Oh well let see what happens.

One thing that did come out of the day was Will passed his skiing by the skin of his teeth and so now has level 2. Also it was Dangerous Paul's last night so that was a bit sad to say goodbye as i have been with him since day 1. Oh well that's what happens at the end of the course!

Laters peps.

One Day Down, Four To Go

Apologies for not posting yesterday - time just ran out.

It was the NonStop fancy dress day and the last full day for a large number of people.

In the evening we had our farewell dinner which was a bit sad but we had a great laugh with some awards and prizes being given out. We also watched some videos and slideshows containing pics of our time here. It was amazing to see the changes and remember some of the crazy shit that has gone on. I hit bed fairly early though as i started the dreaded Level 2 today.

It was an early start to register and then get underway. The skiing conditions this morning were some of the worst i have skied since i arrived - it was like skiing on concrete!
Any how the day went by and to be honest although my style of skiing has been changed drastically again, so far it doesn't seem to be going to bad. I haven't done the teaching part yet, that is later in the week and the bit i am not looking forward to.

After a quickish tech session and a one on one with my instructor we returned home this evening to a very empty lodge. Brendan left today so i now i have a room to myself - yeah! Alot of others have left as well and it seems really wierd to be honest - like a ghost town! Any how i went out to Boston Pizza with what remains of the gang for dinner, and then came back and did my reading for course tomoz - whoop!

Laters peps.

I didn't come skiing to get sunburnt!

What a day in more ways than one!

Firstly it was the last day of our Race Coach Course.
Thankfully there wasn't quite as much theory to be covered today and we got out on the slopes within an hour i think. This was kinda good and kinda bad cos we had been told yesterday to pick which level we thought we were from a rating system and then pick an exercise to cover and demonstrate to the class.
I though after my abismal day yesterday in the classroom that i should show some effort and not be timid by getting my exercise in first. So i did, i thought it went ok but my assessor didn't do what i asked - while everyone else did - this worried me but i thought he is French Canadian so maybe he didn't understand? Anyway that got that out the way! phew. the plan of going first backfired though when others got away with doing nothing as they had the same drill! Oh well.

We broke for an early lunch and went out again for a ski off after wards to allow our assessor to decide whether we were good enough to pass. After a run of short radius, medium radius and mixed radius turns we hit the griz bar to wait for the enevitaable and get sun burnt in the ridiculous weather - about 14C, as it wasn't worth continuing to ski it was rubbish. Eventually it came to that time and we were handed our results - Whoop Whoop - i passed just Level 2 to do now.

When we returned back to the lodge me and some of the gang hit town in tshirts to do some browsing for hotdog day. The temperature and sunshine is wierd.

We had dinner in a big congregation about 6.30pm and chilled for a bit after that playing games you usually play on the beach in the summer!

Later in the evening me and Marky went down to the river to do some night photography. Wicked, it was nice although only a couple of the photos are worthy.

That brings me to this very point; goodnight peps, speak again soon - i'm into my final week!

Where did my weekend go?

Well i say where did my weekend go - did i actually have one in the first place? errr NO!
After feeling absolutely wrecked from winter camping getting up yesterday morning bright and early to start my Race Coach Course was not a welcome sight! But i managed it along with the others that were up for it!

We registered with the external examiners and got on skis not long after. this was actually because they had forgotten to bring the books up from their hotel and so needed to fetch them. After a mornings ski improvement or more as i like to call it (in prep for level 2) - detuning, we headed in for lunch. They certainly made it short and sweet - no doubts there! The reasoning for this became clear after lunch as we entered a 1hr and a half tech session. To round off the day we did some more skiing and wrapped it up with a little more indoor theory - long day. Last night not alot happened for me - but that was cool - i needed an early night.

This morning wasn't quite so bad and my cough, cold and ulcers didn't seem so bad - deceiving little buggers that they are! To be honest later in the day i was in agony! Oh well i manned up and got on with it!

Unsurprisingly we started off this morning with yet more theory - yahoo! What a tit i made of myself as well, when all i needed to do was paraphrase something for the class i just seized up and couldn't say anything. Not good. I felt like a right imbecile. Two hours of theory anyhow, then we went for a ski.

We did some crazy sh1t today - i don't think i have ever skied like this before; very fast and not turning much down the hill - wicked what a buzz. Sorry mum but i love skiing on the edge - its so much fun; if you don't fall that often, you ain't trying!
A little more skiing this afty before another hefty theory session at two hours, hard work to stay awake!

The bus ride home was a welcomed end to the day to be honest. I was rounded out with a trip to A&W's awesome food providing joint - not! Then a return to the lodge and a chat with some of the gang.

Thought for the day: do i actually want to teach skiing? hmmmm

Laters people

Winter Camping

Yesterday was probably my most varied day i have had.

Lessons didn't go to well in the morning, Jens kept having a go at my skiing and to be honest made me feel like sh1t. It seemed like there was no way i would ever pass Level 2 next week.

I was well down beat for most of the morning, wondering also whether i should go on the winter camping in the afternoon of if i needed all the instruction i could get.
Anyways we finally broke for lunch and went to lizard creek. After a mass luncheon a few of us just chilled out in the lounge before we headed off for winter camping.

We met everyone @ 3 @ the bottom of the timber chair. We headed up not long after with huge bags and loads of gear. Then it was a short ski to get out of bounds and an absolutely exhausting hike to the area where we were building our caves. Then we started the building or more like digging actually cos that was what it was. We started the process by flattening/trampling a circle about 10ft across. Then piled alot more snow on top to make a dome. Meanwhile John dug a pit about 8 ft deep at the front to start our entrance. One we had gone far enough down we started to dig in and then up - all bloody hard work. Over the period of 5 hours we went from a flat piece of ground to a cave about 60cm tall, 6 ft wide and about 6 ft deep. I have never dug so much in my life - it was like building a sand castle the size of a large car!

Eventually it was finished and we joined everyone by the measly fire to try and warm up a little. In the end though we just hit the sack - literally. To be honest i didn't sleep to badly. The only issues i came across was the fact that my pillow rolled away in the middle of the night.

We woke up early this morning to see what was happening - Louise had had a very cold night and was like an ice block unlike me and John who were fine. It was fairly chilly and so getting changed/back into selopats and jacket in a space as small as i described was a challenge. Also our boots had quite literally frozen and getting them back on took ages and is not easy when you cant sit up and only lie on your side.

Any how after about an hour of faffing we got to the point where we had skis on and were ready to go. Feeling like a Sherpa with a huge bag on my back we skied powder covered steep terrain back to the piste. Once on there it was great as no one had been done the run yet so we had virtually fresh tracks - wicked!

Strange as it sounds i would do the whole thing again it was great fun!

At this point breakfast was in order and so we hit the day lodge for some much needed nourishment. I indulged myself with waffles, syrup and cream - yum. After breaky we got the bus back to the lodge where we freshened up and chilled out - i was absolutely cream crackered. In the afternoon i went for a ponder to town and did nothing else - just rested knowing that i had my coaching course starting tomoz.

Will let peps know how that goes.

Jens master to Jens disaster

Well what a mixed day i have had.

It started off this morning with quite a good time. After the first two days of Jens being really hard and no one in the group really happy with the instruction things started to improve today. We have had quite a big dumping of snow over the last two days, quite possibly the best skiing days of the year so far and we haven't been able to free ski in it!

This morning however Jens started to chill out a bit and let go - he got us skiing some awesome tracks and jumping off cat tracks - it was wicked.
Sadly however it wasn't to last and this afternoon he went a bit mental with the syncronised skiing competition we did.

I will round up quickly because the mentalness of the last 12 days or so has kicked in and time is very short, days left are limited. i am finishing this post about 6 hours after starting it.

There was a fashion show tonight for hot dog day (retro day) with some wicked clothing modelled by instructors and nonstop staff, it was hilarious - picys will follow; i seem to always say that!

Just had to pack for winter camping and is now very late - sleep deprivation is a big issue!
Will be sleeping in a snow cave on the mountain tomoz could be interesting as well as cold. will let you know. With that in mind there will defo be no post tomoz - hope to catch up with you guys again on Friday.

Speak soon

The Almighty Jens

Today was very usual for a Monday morning. Getting up seemed liked a chore but once you get going it ain't so bad.

With only just over a week to go between now and my Level 2, the pressure is on to be up to scratch for the course in both the skiing and teaching departments - at the moment i am no where near sure that i am going to pass to say the least.

One good thing that did come out of today was that i got the Yoda of Skiing; Jens. He heads up the course out hear and is a skiing God. He will be one of my course conductors next week so if i can please him this week then i know i am in with a good chance next week.
In general skiing was OK today with good and bad moments. Quite knackering though!

To top it off we had a tech session this evening which lasted the best part of 2 hours - far too long.

This left me little time to get ready to go out. I was invited by Louise to join her, her Dad and Patrick and Mark for dinner at a local Sushi house. I have never had sushi before but i can know say that i really enjoyed it and would happily go to a sushi house again.
We had a wicked evening and a great laugh - it was good to talk to people who knew what 'the rock' was!

Will keep you posted on skiing developments this week as and when i can, it is going to be a busy last couple of weeks!

Laters, peps

Now I've skied the USA

Well it was only a short trip but one i am glad i did.
The start yesterday was even earlier than the one from the week before, but wasn't to hard to get up strangely even after only five hours sleep - had to watch the F1 qualifying on Friday Night.
We were on our way by 7.30 and the trip went fairly quickly except for delay at US border control. They are so bloody rude and picky - we decided we didn't like them!

We arrived at Big Mountain about 11ish so decided to have breakfast and lunch all together with the aim of skiing the rest of the day in one go. After scoffing a strange form of spag bol, i hit the slopes with Andy, James and Tom. To be honest i felt crap from the start - i had taken my carving skis instead of my powder ones and paid the price because most of the mountain had a nice little dusting of pow pow which grew to much more in certain areas. This just meant that i skied rubbish and got quite frustrated!
On the positive side what i saw of the mountain i liked quite a lot - i thought i was better than both Red and Castle from the two weeks before. My best run was probably the last where i felt like my short radius parallel turns were great. We actually stopped skiing about 3.30 and chilled with a drink or two in the humongous day lodge.
About 4.30 ish we got the coach back to WhiteFish and found the hotel. It was quite like the accommodation at Red but it was OK. After a freshen up me and Rich went to look for possible dinner. In the end we grouped up with a bunch of others and headed to supposedly the best restaurant in town. We had a wicked evening and a great laugh - with pretty good food to be honest. We racked up a bill of about US$1100 in the process!
After this we hit the bars - some stayed later than others. After an hour or so chatting to host Jenny i headed back once i had seen others pack it in at about 11 ish.
I tried to watch what was apparently quite an exciting opening race of the season for F1 but America don't like that sport so i couldn't and watched the Incredibles instead!
Rich stumbled through the door about 2 and others returned all through the night till about 7 this morning.

Today we just chilled around town. It seemed to expensive to go up the hill and ski for 1/2 a day for $60. I did loose count of how many times we walked around the streets cos after breaky - which was some wicked french toast we even walked a few kilometres out of town to Whitefish Lake itself. I will upload picys in the next couple of days if i can find time. Even after this hour and a half detour we still had time to waste. Eventually back at the hotel people started to appear and we got on our way after picking up some stragglers at the ski hill. This was about 6.00 ish. After a stop on the way we got to Canadian border control who were much nicer than the US version - unsurprisingly. Then it was a straight drive back to the lodge where i chilled and watched a movie with the gang, before writing this and will soon be hitting bed.

Important week this week so gotta push hard for the Race coach this weekend and then the dreaded Level 2 next week - aaaaarrrrrrrrggggggghhhhhhhh.

Laters people.

On the way back to norm

I will try and make this another one of my briefer posts.

I haven't posted for the last couple of days simply because not a lot has gone on. Since my fall the other day i decided to be cautious and take a couple of days off from the skiing routine.

Today i returned to the slopes and had one of my best days on the slopes so far despite the cold and icy conditions. Things just seemed to click today. While all this was going on the first group of level 2's completed their course today. Amazing only a few failed to pass which i view as a good thing for them and me. With the high pass rate it looks good for those of us taking in a week or so time.

Any how i am off to Whitefish US, tomoz so have to get up ridiculously early and need to try and sleep with the level 2's celebrating in the corridor - laters peps.

Oh dear yet another wipeout

Will make this quick as i have to catch the bus in a few minutes. (I am writing this on wednesday but talking about tuesday if you catch my drift)

Yesterdays skiing wasn't to bad - the runs were very icy; particularly down the bottom.
Skiing yesterday was based on ski improvement and i think we achieved it. Everything went well till the afternoon - where i decided to follow Ron(our instructor) and jump off a cat track. I landed the jump without a problem, but then shat myself when i saw the condition of the snow 20 yards ahead. Somewhere in that melee i lost it and had a nice wipeout although curiously i lost both my poles and my skis stayed on?

The evening was consumed by dinner which wasn't to bad - a very cheesy lasagna and yet more pool and a couple of very obscure games of Jenga; Mark likes to twist the whole tower as he removes bricks!

Surprise Snow

Well you would expect it with the weather we have been having over the last few days but we actually had about 15cm of snow over night.

This meant that my early morning lesson was a little interesting as it was powder on top with ice underneath and this caught me out on a few occasions!
In places however the snow was superb and the real powder skiing feeling came over me as i made nice neat short turns in pristine pow pow.

Sadly though it didn't last till even lunch time, by which point the temperature had hit 10C and the area in front of the rental shop was suitable for water skiing.

I came home at this point and wrapped up a few things that needed sorting and spoke to the rents and Han again. Other than this though it was dinner and a mediocre film called Pride and Glory; if you haven't seen it don't bother!

Laters People.

Castle Mountain and crapy internet

To be honest this week has been a fairly average week in terms of goings on.
The snow has been rubbish and therefore skiing hasn't been great, but as we keep being told 'you have to be able to ski all terrain in all conditions!

Yesterday was the earliest getup i have had since i have been out here; the shocking hour of 6.50am. With that i had to be on the bus by 7.15 so as i snoozed my alarm there wasn't time for breaky. The journey to Castle Mountain was fairly uneventful, its about 1h30m. I slept a large proportion of it until i woke up finding my head bashing against the window which i was lent upon.

After sorting our selves out we headed up the smaller of the two mountains to find it extremely icy and not much fun. We decided after a couple of runs to move to the larger of the two mountains to see what it was like. The snow was better - where there was snow. It was very sparse particularly towards the top of the mountain. There was so much bare rock it looked like the surface of an outer planet not a ski hill; serious navigation was required. After a couple of runs we came in for a drink followed by another run and then lunch.

Once we had satisfied our hunger needs with chilli-fries for me we hit the mountain again and decided that the snow on the big mountain was shocking (like velcro) so went back to the smaller hill and skied some runs there. We also took some pics so will upload those and the videos when the internet conection is stable enough to upload without cutting out.
At this point we decided enough was enough and hit the bar as it was baking hot and it was turning into waterskiing rather than skiing.

When Adam returned from the hospital with Louis in one piece after being crashed into we headed home. This took a little longer than getting there probably cos i remained awake for most of it taking picy's.
I was so knackered when i got back i couldn't be arsed to go out to get food so had cereal instead. The only other thing of note to happen last night was our epic Jenga game which lasted a full 40 minutes and we actually completed it - we ran out of blocks.

Today has been much more chilled in comparison. Slow start made the phone calls to the best of the canadian internet's ability and caught up with the peps, mother especially considering the day. Other than that i have surfed the net, watched a NASCAR race - silly racing, done my washing and waxed one pair of my skis. This evening we went to Rip and Richard's for dinner and had a great laugh talking about two people on course who are prolific liers and dig their holes deeper by the day until we blow it all to pieces later this week - hilarious!
That brings me to here -->.

Laters peps.

Temperature is just right for frying bacon

Well so far this week it has been fairly chilled. Not a great deal has gone on since the excitement of Red Mountain.
As previously mentioned I did have an extra room mate who ended up staying an extra night but all has been sorted now and things are back to normal - a bit quieter and more peaceful than before.
Instruction has been tougher this week. With people taking their level 2 next week there has been a big focus on teaching and improving our skiing technique for the 4 things we are going to be assessed on; Snowplough, Intermideate Parrelell turns, short radius turns and Freerun.

Today i did my first bit of shadowing, which was well cool and very useful. It was good to see an actual lesson taking place and the instructor taking it, Sarah was very good and aloud me to demonstrate stuff and asked what i would do at one point, which was kinda scary but she was really good about it and i demonstrated well so that was cool.

The down side to this week though has definately been the temperature. It has been so hot this week that most of the snow and ice around town has melted.

P.S. Sorry meant to post this yesterday (Friday) but got carried away with something i guess.

Laters

Right an update as i have promised on the weekend.

To be honest there wasn't anything major that happened it was just alot of little things some good and and some bad that made it quite a wicked weekend.

We left on Friday morning and headed for Red on two coaches. Sadly i managed to pick the party bus and unfortunately the seat right next to self appointed DJ - Paul, who decided to play music at full blast on his Bose Sounddock all the f***ing way, all 5 hours of it. Pardon my French but that really pissed me and a number of others off.

Anyway after a stop at the Kootenay Brewery on the way we arrived in Red about 6 ish.
The accommodation was awesome - for some reason i didn't take any picy's but it was 5 star condo's i had my own room and we a had a private hottub; awesome. I was sharing the flat with Louise, Nicki and Christine although Christine ended up not staying in our condo, so we each had a room to ourselves.

The food they provided that night was terrible and could have been prepared and cooked by a monkey in a better way than they did. But we are kinda used to it now!

The following two days skiing were actually very good. It snowed the entire time we were there and the skiing was awesome in places, and excellent virtually every where else. The accommodation was right on the slope so it was a 50 yard walk to the lift in the mornings.

As i mentioned yesterday the accidents just keep coming and the weekend was no exception. One of the snowboarders got some 'absolutely awesomely brilliantly humungos air and landed on his shoulder completely destroying it - he got back to the lodge this evening and is in a really bad way - extreme sports ahy - what can one say!

Btw parents if you thought the lifts were antiquated here in Fernie dont even consider Red Mtn in Rossland as a holiday destination; their lifts are prehistoric!

Anyway sadly Sunday evening came around and we left to return home. The fun was only just beginning! I swapped coaches for the way home and that was a good thing. Firstly no music, secondly i wasn't then in the coach which got stuck going up one of the long passes and at a few points ended up sliding down the road, even with brakes and snow chains on! This meant we sat in the same place on this incline for well over an hour until the guy from the gritter truck who had driven past several times finally rescued the coach drivers from their misery and put the snow chains on the other coach which didn't have winter tyres for them.
So the journey ended up taking 7 hours! Lovely.

The skiing from the last couple of days has been good - we continue to get snow and conditions tomoz should be good as well. Level 2 is coming up fast and i only started to feel today that i was getting back in the swing of things after a whole week off, still got a way to go yet before i am at pass level.

Anyways i am currently awaiting the return of people from the pub celebrating Paddy's day cos i know its gonna get roudy in here with every one wanting to talk to Johnny or me as PJ is currently doing.

Laters

We have gained a cripple!

Well actually more than one - four have been put out for the season in the last week alone. A smashed shoulder, a badly ruptured shoulder, a broken leg and details of the last to follow.

Before you start worrying mum none of the cripples are me!
My issue has resolved itself and i am back skiing - just need to get my confidence back - my skiing is rubbish.

The person in question is Johnny English - no jokes - that really is his name!
Whilst night skiing last Thursday he fell on his leg which had taken a battering earlier in the week on the rails in the park. This lead to him getting a blood clot in his leg and being transported off to hospital. He has since recovered to a certain degree but is completely bed bound for at least a week.
The problem is that he lives in a house and cant walk at all. So after watching a film this evening i came up to my room to find that ideally they wanted to move him in with me and Brendan.
I couldn't say no seeing the pain he is in. So we did.
There are now two people asleep in this room as i type!

I was going to fill you in on the weekend but that will now have to wait until tomoz in case i am keeping Johnny up with my typing!

So sorry for all the happy news but thats how life goes sometimes!
Will try and get a Red Mountain update in tomoz, till then,

Laters people.

Just back from Red

Hey peps, its 10 to 1 in the morning here and its been a very long day. We have just got back from Red Mountain where we spent the weekend. After a 6 hour coach journey i am absolutely shagged!

We had a wicked weekend and quick a bit of crazy stuff happened. Thoughts and stuff to come in due course.

Sorry for not posting last week major internet probs - it looks ok now though. With this in mind i will put a bit of an update and whats happened in Red in a post tomoz - cos i need some sleep. Hope all is good back home and speak soon to ya soon.

Right so I will try and get something posted

It seems that i only have to not post for a couple of days and some of my readers get cranky! I haven't really posted now since Wednesday and the comments have been coming in!

So for those of you that need to know what has been going on hour by hour; tough you aint getting it, but here is an update from the last few days.

Firstly and most importantly is the snow. We have had quite a large dump over the last few days (when i last looked at the website it had totaled something like 77cm over the last week).

This basically meant that the skiing has been awesome in general and overwhelmingly good in places. Going back as far as Thursday, i skied in the morning and tried to ski in the afternoon but something in my right shoulder was saying NO NO NO! So as much as i didn't want to come down from the waist deep powder i decided that to try and save myself i should rest up.
So much happens here i cant remember where we went for dinner that evening but it might have been the lodge where i am staying - not sure.

Friday came round and teaching the rents was back on the agenda. It was interesting to see the change in their skiing from the weekend before. To be honest i was happy with what they had done; a few reminders and we were back on track. Considering the conditions they skied the day very well. Mum is skiing very well indeed and has really picked up the stuff i have passed onto her, she is now skiing like a rocket! Dad has improved as well he just needs to ski with a bit more confidence. Its actually to long ago to remember where we went for dinner that night.

Saturday brought more snow and more surprises. I thought i would take the rents to some places that they hadn't been before to experience more of the mountain. This is where i got a shock and asked them if they wanted to ski some powder off piste; i was expecting a very definite no but i got exactly the opposite. So off we went and they took to it brilliantly, tiring as it was. I was so happy - i had the rents doing something i never imagined that they would and they wanted more! So that's what they got - we had a wicked time and got some wicked pictures over these few days.
After having to rescue Dad from a fall i discovered my shoulder was aching like hell so we actually called it a halt early - doh!
After a chilled afternoon the rents picked me up and we went to one of the posher restaurants in Fernie for dinner called The Old Elevator. This was as i had been told really good - the food was amazing, though my steak didn't quite match the one from Lizard Creek earlier in the week, but thats being picky! Their Iced Tea was very good though!

Sunday was a day of rest and we just chilled out by rents coming to the lodge for breakfast, browsing around town and sleeping in the afternoon! They picked me up later and we went to the Italian up on the hill which i though was OK but dad in particular didn't rate it. Not like back home!

I didn't ski on Monday to try and give my shoulder a better chance of healing and ended up back in hospital! You will be glad to know however it wasn't for me. Louise had suffered a concussion the day before and was told by the head ski instructor to go to hospital to get it check out, so i went with her. The rest of the day was just chilled (in more than one way it was -30C ish on the hill) and i met the rents for dinner at corner pocket in the evening which was very nice. They seemed to have had a reasonable day skiing considering the conditions.

As i write this on Tuesday i am once again not skiing for further recuperation and to avoid what is an uncomfortably cold -35C or below outside - horrible. I expect to meet the rents later for their last night here.

Christ that was a post and a half!

Laters peps

Update

I thought i would post a little note. We have been having a major problem here in fernie with the Internet. It has been really temperamental and i haven't been able to get a post online. I am taking tomoz off so will try and get a full update online then.

Laters peps

I am gonna have to employ a blog writer!

I know i seem to go on about this all the time but i just don't seem to have any to write my blog at the mo. This is possibly quite evident in the sparseness of the posts from me, hence my point of having to employ someone to do this for me.

Anyway - onto matters of the last couple of days. I have been back in lessons as normal and we have been having snow. It isn't all brilliant but some of it is nice to ski on - the snow yesterday was very random there were patches of lovely powder and in other parts it was like skiing through glue. Yesterday evening parents wanted to try out curling so we went for dinner @ 'The Pub' with Louise and then headed to the curling rink. For a couple of hours we had quite a laugh although i did end the evening with another aching body after a trip on the ice! Oh well i knew it this morning cos my back absolutely caned!

Despite this i got up and went skiing as per norm and had a reasonable day - although i wasn't rating tuition this week as Jono is really slow; he talks alot and doesn't ski much - to hinder matters further for some reason we joined another group so there was 12 of us instead of the usual max of 8. Oh Well the afternoon brought some racing which was different - i drew with the guy i was racing 1-1. Tonight i went with the rents to Lizard Creek Lodge for dinner. it was superb the steak i had was one of the best i have ever had. Delicious.
After a quick boot check for mum i came back to the lodge to finish off my day!

Laters,

No Time = No Posts

As you can possibly tell from the lack of posts over the last few days i have had very little free time on my hands. I have spent most of the time with the rents helping to educate and improve their skiing. It appears to be working to some extent but we still have some work to do.

Today i went back to skiing with my group and the rents skied on their own however by pure chance we broke for lunch at exactly the same time so that meant free lunch - handy!
Skiing today was a little slow and very technical - it was also very wet we are having alot of rain at the mo - what is going on!

Not much else to report - went to 'Rip and Richards' tonight for dinner with the rents and had a nice burger and then came back and chatted with peps for hours! Then wrote this,

Laters