White Christmas and Whistler

BRR it’s cold in here there must be a white Christmas in the atmosphere. Ok so I know that’s lame but how else do you say that you had a magical white Christmas. My first one in the snow since I was 8. How awesome is that?

Well christmas went well, Santa was very kind to me, brought me some new snowboard boots. And before you ask, NO I did not swap a shoe with anyone, YES that is the way they came in the box and NO I don’t want to change the laces over. Now that we have all of that covered, I take great pleasure in presenting the most amazing DC park boots that are going to keep me nimble on the mountain for the next few years to come.

 

Now that we have that out-of-the-way I can tell you more about what’s been going on lately. We got a new room-mate, Michele who is a 21-year-old Italian guy. He’s super chilled out and easy to live with. Learning a bit of random Italian and French (from Miguel) as I go along. We have a super fun international household, we get along really well until it’s time for the flat beer pong on a snowboard competitions. They can get pretty full on, so far we’re had one game with no clear winners since we were a little drunk by the end and just decided to skull! So still happy families.

Well the snow has been falling hard and keeping the mountain nice and white, with loads of tree runs to be had in the deep powpow. Me and Kiah have been hitting up the slopes when we’re not sleeping off the night before. Had some amazing days up there so far, really getting into the groove of things. Had a few Fresh Track days on the slopes, great big breakfast at 7.30am and on the slopes by 8.10am. Some of the best days that I’ve had so far. I’ve been doing quite a bit of riding 16 days up there so far, 15 if you don’t count the tourist day ~ went up there just for the 1/2 price food for lunch totally worth it I might add.

With the vast variety in terrain over the two mountains the highest peak chairs are quickly becoming my favourites. 7th Heaven chair(Blackcomb) with Coud 9 ,which is by far the most fun run with massive rollers that give you huge air when you fly down the smooth slope! Oh what fun it is to fly down the mountain at top speed or plow through moguls after a powder day on the Peak chair (Whistler). I don’t think that I could get enough of this place or even go on every run possible.

I hope that you all had a great Christmas and New Years. Take care of yourselves and keep me up to date with all the goings on.

Meet my roomies

Let me introduce you all to my roomies. These two are fortunate enough to share the house with me for the season. Kiah is unfortunate enough to share the same room as me for the season 

Presenting my awesome roomies Miguel (Quebec) and Kiah (Australia) !

Canadian adventures

It has been a while since I’ve added anything into my blog. Mainly this is due to laziness and way too much partying. Let me update everyone on the grand adventures that I’ve been having in Whistler.

So far so good, this place is truly in a world of it’s own. Whistler Village is definitely the place to be to meet a hoard of crazy young people from all over the world. There is also no real weekend here, if you’re a local (which I am) you have the opportunity to party cheaper and every night of the week. It’s great here the bars are insane, there is always something on somewhere and there are always free/cheap tickets to the millions of events that are on.

Had my birthday last week and that was an adventure all on it’s own. We had a small gathering in one of the common rooms with some quiet alcoholic refreshments and then headed out for a small boogie. But in other words, we had a sweet party, and then raged on in Merlins for the full moon party, getting ourselves completely smashed. One of the most fun nights that I’ve had is a while.

I’m really enjoying myself here; I almost don’t want to leave. The mountains are giants, nothing like what we have at home; there are massive runs that can take up to 1 hour. Trees everywhere, and pow pow to die for. Tree runs are the way to go, trying to make your way down the mountain and not crash into a tree is somewhat of a new experience. So SICK! Loving every minute of this place. Helps that I have spanky new gear, and a new love of my Skatebanana snowboard.  Another great thing that helps is being able to walk out of my house, across a run and straight into a gondola, then after a day of shredding just ride back down to my house. I love living on the actual mountain!!! Well enough gloating about how great it is here. I just hope that the rest of the season is going to be as good.