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April 25, 2006
It's All Over !!
Saturday was my last day of work! It was just me and Lori (one of the managers) so thankfully it was fairly quiet all day. After work everyone from the 2 smaller satellite stores when to a local Sushi restaurant for dinner to celebrate the end of the season. I had the 'mixed sushi' - a plate of 10 pieces of various types - which was very nice,
Sophie had Tempura for starters and the Teriyaki Beef for main - both of which were excellent.
Afterwards we went to the main village square at the base of Whistler to watch the Telus festival finale, the Big Air contest.
A huuuge kicker, landing ramp and drop tower had been constructed for invited skiers and snowboarders to launch themselves off and pull off some pretty ridiculous tricks.
They had 3 tries and on each run had to do a trick involving ever more rotation - firstly 540*, then 720* and finally 900*.
I got some video which I will edit and put up when I have a moment.
Following the contest was a concert with a performance from 'Blackalicious' - which again was good fun.
Sunday was the last day of operations on Blackcomb (and the last chance to try and win an iPod. Sophie and I were in the lift queue for 7:15am but although coming close unfortunately didn't win. We went to the top of 'Spankys Ladder' - a small hike which accesses solely double diamond terrain, and although conditions were a little too icy to ride down we got some nice photos instead. The rest of the day was spent cruising around in the sunshine getting some last photos and then hitting the park to work on those grabs and spins.
In the afternoon we went to Whistler Park, all was going well until Sophie tried a backside switch 180* off a jump. She fell over and in the process of putting her hand out to break her fall... dislocated her right ring finger at the second knuckle.
I won't go into the gory details - suffice to say it looked vile (see the x-ray pictures) - but 4 hours in the medical centre and a vast quantity of $$$ saw her fixed again.
So yesterday and today was spent on my own riding the park for a few hours. I practiced 180* spins, I added some new grabs to my repertoire and (after about an hour of trying and repeatedly face-planting) I successfully completed a 360* spin! So I'm quite happy now :)
I'll try and get some photos up on the web in the next few days (we've got a few)
Posted by edwardnorthridge at April 25, 2006 09:49 PM