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April 05, 2006
Final Freshtracks
I always spend ages before writing one of these just staring at the calender trying to remember what I've done, more often than not the answer is - work and snowboard, so these blogs start getting a little repetitive - today's entry... is no different.
Saturday: Worked, highlight was a conversation with a family which went something like:
Me: So where are you guys from?
Them: We're from England.
Me: Right... Where in England?
Them: County called 'Hampshire'.
Me: Right... Where in Hampshire?
Them: Oh, place called Basingstoke.
Me: Ah ok, I'm from Reading.
Them: Really? You sound totally Canadian, we didn't realise...
Both my Boss and I were completely dumbfounded.
Sunday: Myself and Ben went up the hill for a few hours, we spent most of the time in the park doing jumps and rails then did a couple of runs on the piste.
Monday: Myself and SK did Fresh Tracks. Took our time over breakfast then did a few runs on the fresh corduroy before spending the rest of the day either on the pistes practising 180Ëš spins or in the park doing 180Ëš jumps and some rails/boxes. By the end of the day we both had the 'frontside' variation pretty much sorted - so were particularly happy.
That night it was Karaoke at the 'Crystal Lounge' Bar, we met with a couple of friends from work who were already in good spirits when we arrived. SK attracted the attention of the wig wearing drunk hockey fan within minutes, so he provided ample amusement until the singing started. First up to the mic was SKs newest admirer, having removed his T-shirt and declared to the crowd he 'wasn't gay and liked the ladies' he tried to sing something, I can't remember what it was, only that it was painfully funny to watch.
All in all it was a great fun evening - all the more so as I didn't have to sing... maybe next time.
Yesterday all the spinning and jumping from Monday caught up with me and I woke to a raw shoulder (still not recovered from that back-flip incident)
We had a rest day and spent the morning wondering around town looking at the end of season sales and the afternoon in the cinema watching 'Ice Age 2' - which is alot of fun :o)
Today my shoulder had recovered so we did Fresh Tracks for the last time. We met with a couple of girls from work and had a nice breakfast. It was a glorious morning so we got some photos as we came out of the Roundhouse and as we rode to the base - see the photo album.
Today was the Summit 'Poker Run'. We were in the same teams as the Curling, except me, my team had generally disbanded so I was put in SKs team made up of the Summit Bosses... Playing cards were stuck to certain lift towers over Blackcomb mountain and we had 2 hours to ride to as many as we could collecting photographs of the group at each location.
It was pretty good fun and we got to ride in some areas of the mountain I hadn't been to before - including the Kiddie learning zone - complete with a ride on the magic carpet...
I finished the day off with some physio on my knee and shoulder. Both of which are feeling a great deal better for it. The details of how my physio made 'my neck go crunch' make SK feel rather ill so I won't discuss them here :o)
Tomorrow we have another Summit party so I'll let you know how that goes.
Posted by edwardnorthridge at April 5, 2006 11:22 PM