All good things come to an end

I’ve been meaning to write an end of holiday post for some time (well, since having got back) and never really got further than putting some notes in a draft. Anyway, I was about to delete it but thought that I would post a selection of my memories to be added to as and when [...]

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Living the lifestyle

We’re now in Tofino, Vancouver Island, having driven over from Whistler on Sunday typically, just as we left it started but we had decided that the season was over and packed our boards away already so there was no turning back.
Before leaving though, we did get a chance to experience the lifestyle in Whistler. We [...]

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It’s not just a resort, it’s a lifestyle*

* © Rob Read 2007.
We’ve made it to Whistler having driven through some amazing countryside. We went from a snow covered town in Golden through to Kamloops on the first day which, if it had seen any snow showed no evidence of it at all when we were there, in fact just outside of town [...]

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The Sunshine bus

Though Kicking Horse was receiving some snow fall the freezing level was steadily rising meaning that you had to stay up top to ride the good snow. This was limiting the terrain that we could access somewhat so on Sunday night we decided we would leave Golden the following morning and head to Sunshine Village [...]

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Back to the good stuff

Friday came and so did our time to leave Rossland. I awoke with a bit of a sore head after the previous night’s activities (they were however a little more restrained than you might think.) got my stuff together and went out to where we had left the van to start packing up. On opening [...]

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All change please

Having spoken to Jo about the options I had open to me I’ve decided to stay on in Canada, I’ll be moving on from Rossland though. Rob, myself and another couple of lads from the hostel have bought a van (Sadly Nathan will be leaving us tomorrow to make his way back home.), it’s a [...]

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This town is coming like a ghost town

We’ve got back from Kicking Horse and the conditions at the hill show no signs of getting any better and it seems as though people are leaving in droves.
I’ve been trying to contact Opodo to see what I can do about moving my flights but their call centre is worst than useless. Whenever I have [...]

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Just another day of pow at the horse…

Is what the white board at the bottom of the gondola reported on Tuesday and Wednesday and they weren’t wrong.
Monday morning held a lot of promise, there had been about 30cms overnight on Sunday and there was more snow forecast to fall, we were already grinning. Unfortunately though the Gondola stayed closed due to high [...]

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Did somebody say Road Trip?

The last week has been fairly uneventful. I’ve taken a fair amount of time off because of my knee which is still giving me some grief, though it would appear to be on the mend which is good news, we’ll see how it goes though.
We’ve completed our Avalanche Awareness course which was excellent, a really [...]

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At one with the machine

The inaugural Mountain Shadow Hostel Ms Pac Competition was held on the 10th of March. There were 8 competitors from around the globe. The competition was close but I managed to win the title.
James, the cleaner here has made a video of the contests which can be viewed below.

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