Canadialand!

Posted 12:50 AM, December 28, 2006, by saerni

On Christmas day Ryan and I headed up to Canada. His family has a house in the town of Rossland, BC. We were going to ski at the nearby Red Mountain! I was pretty excited! I have been there many times in the summer, but this was my first winter searson there, and so my first time on the slopes. It was snowing when it arrived so we were expecting some pretty great conditions the next day.

We stayed for 4 days and had great skiing, powder for Ryan and really nicely groomed runs for me. It wasn't super crowded so it was such a nice break from the SoCal slopes I was used to.

His brother, Peter, has moved up there and is opening a bar called Nowhere Special. He's working on it with some college friends! We got a sneak peek at the inside, it looks really amazing. Both he and his friends who are co-owners have been doing a lot of the construction by hand. They have this really cool logo they.

There were these HUGE icycles that had formed on the house. I took a few pictures and tried to paste them together. These were over two stories high! It was pretty insane. We were careful not to play in the snow directly under them!!!!

It snowed the first couple of days, but by the third day it was warming up and they were starting to melt, although I'm sure they won't disappear anytime soon. They'll probably hang around until spring. The lifts don't close at Red until March or April so I'd guess they'll be around until at least then. Hopefully I'll get to go back and check on their progress.

Ryan and I went skiing for a bit on Tuesday, but he had some work to do (he works for the mountain, his dad's company). It was pretty cold and still wet that day. The runs are all pretty nice but Ryan decided to take me down runs that he was convinced were groomed. Not only wasn't that the case, I was informed later they are never groomed. In addition, they had a huge number of rocks jutting out! I couldn't see them most of the time so I skiied over about 4 of them.

I went down the rest of the slope REALLY slowly poking at every single bump I saw in the snow, for fear that there would be another huge rock just waiting to ruin my new skis! I was positive they were destroyed. As it turns out they were in perfect shape. I guess it sounded a lot worse than it looked!

Ryan's other brother (Reid) and sister (Hannah) and parents arrived that evening! It was really great. They had a little gift exchange, and were super sweet and got me these great scarf. I loved the bow as well, that I decided made a nice headband. We warmed up by the fire and relaxed a bit.

Of course one of the best things about them coming is being able to play around in the snow! We decided that, although the boys were determined to get the first chair in the morning for the fresh powder (and so get up at 6 am) that we could go sledding.

We started out sledding down the street which was pretty fun! But all the fresh snow made it hard for us to make a track!

Reid passes out in the snow after running around for an hour!!

Hannah makes a snow angel after devouring a delicious meal of SNOW! I've seen her fill a cup with fresh snowfall and eat it a few times!

I try a slide down the steep side of the house where Reid had made a little track.

It didn't end exactly the way I expected.

Comments

Hi,

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Comment by: Jon at January 12, 2007 03:34 PM