France – Air Canada
Sep 14
Canada, France Airport No Comments
I’m on my way to France. Ended up flying Air Canada.
Sep 14
Canada, France Airport No Comments
I’m on my way to France. Ended up flying Air Canada.
Jul 01
Canada Animals, Extreme Sports, Ski Camp, Skiing, Whistler, Wildlife No Comments
It’s Canada Day!
Unfortunately, the weather wasn’t very good on the glacier for the last day of camp, it was raining and snowing with bad visibility. And even worse then weather was that my legs had turned into wet noodles, all of the skiing and mountain biking had finally caught up to me. So I skied for a little while, but decided that it was better to quit early before I hurt myself.
To get to the glacier at the top of the mountain where the ski camp terrain park is located was a bit work each day. We would have to take one chairlift, then walk about 100 feet to another chairlift. At the top of that chairlift we would get on a but that would drive us around the mountain to where we would get on a third chair lift to the top of the mountain. The whole process took about 45 minutes. But one of the cool things about riding the lower chairlifts was that we would almost always see bears and sometimes deer.
Jun 30
Canada Extreme Sports, Me, Ski Camp, Skiing, Whistler No Comments
Day 6 of camp and an we had a couple of inches of fresh snow overnight. The snow cats were supposed to groom the camp’s terrain park overnight, but there was some kind of problem that prevented that from happening. So the weather and the lack of grooming made it tough to do much in the park, so we did some runs on Seventh Heaven instead while the digger worked on getting the terrain park back into shape.
Eventually the terrain park was in good enough shape to start hitting some jumps.
Jun 29
Canada Downhill Mountain Biking, Extreme Sports, Me, Ski Camp, Skiing, Whistler No Comments
For some reason I have no photos from skiing for today, but I’m sure that we did something incredibly cool and gnarly. After skiing Jeff, Pinky and I hit the downhill mountain bike park again.
Jun 28
Canada Downhill Mountain Biking, Extreme Sports, Me, Ski Camp, Skiing, Whistler No Comments
Today is a break day at camp, so no skiing. That means we have a bit of a chance to rest and recover and to do some more downhill mountain biking. The weather was a little rainy, but it was not too bad. Jeff and I were joined by Stephanie, one of the camp councilors and a rockin’ downhill mountain biker. She showed us around and gave us a few pointers.
Jun 27
Canada Downhill Mountain Biking, Extreme Sports, Ski Camp, Skiing, Whistler No Comments
Day three at the momentum ski camp. One of the cool new features at camp this year is the giant air-bag like what stuntmen use when jumping off a building. The air-bag is placed behind a big jump so that skiers can hit the jump, try new tricks and land safely in the air-bag. It was a bit scary at first, but pretty fun.
Another day of skiing and another day of downhill mountain biking. Today we’re joined by Pinky.
Jun 26
Canada Downhill Mountain Biking, Extreme Sports, Food, Ski Camp, Skiing, Whistler No Comments
Day two of ski camp and the digger were still working on the jumps, so it was mostly rails again.
During the sumer, one of the things Whistler is known for is their downhill mountain bike park. Jeff and I start riding downhill mountain bikes a couple of years ago when we were at ski camp and every year we’re spending more and more of the time we’re not skiing in the bike park. We’ll ski until early afternoon, then switch our ski gear for mountain biking gear and hit the bike park. Jeff’s gotten so into downhill mountain biking that he’s bought his own bike.
I like to try some of the local food when I travel and in Canada it was Poutine, french fries topped with cheese curd and then covered with gravy. It was good and not as scary was raw horse or fugu.
Jun 25
Canada Extreme Sports, Ski Camp, Skiing, Whistler No Comments
I’m up in Whistler Canada attending the Momentum Freeride Ski Camp. I’ve come to Whistler during the summer for the last few years to attend one of the ski camps and always have a good time.
I’m rooming with Jeff again this year. He’s sporting a new Kermit the Frog look for his ski outfit, so he’s always easy to see on the hill.
Day one started with most of the jumps unfinished, so we spent most of the time working on riding rails.
Unfortunately, since I’m usually the one taking the pictures, I don’t have a lot of photos of myself at camp.