Radventure 2011: Oh Canada

Friday, February 4, 2011

Oh Canada

We landed in Vancouver and were warmly welcomed by the McFarlane's. Just before we walked out the door Mike commented that there was only a 40% chance of rain... Great! and yet as we walked out the sprinkles started to fall. It looked to be a regular rainy day! But Mother Nature was kind to us and as we rode around Stanley Park the sun came out and even the clouds parted to see the peaks in the distance.

Riding around Stanley Park

Sara Modelling

Next was the perfect dry champagne powdered peaks of Big White. The conditions were boarding (haha get it?!) on close to perfect. We were spoilt with snow falling on 3 out of our 6 days totaling an impressive 25 cm. Scott managed not to break any bones avoiding fallen logs as he went off track and Sara even got some air as she stacked it head over tail. Our ski in - ski out was awesome allowing us to be on the slopes a few minutes after waking up and also to pop in and defrost at lunchtime. In our kitchenette we got busy and cooked up a storm... We even baked a cake! Scott couldn't resist another serving of buffalo wings at the bargain price of 35c each!! Big White was incredible... Boarding on powder is like floating down the mountain and falling into piles of feathers. Super cool!!

Rad Snowboarder...

We celebrated Aussie Day with the McFarlane clan and enjoyed a scrumptuous meal and some good Canadian Beer!!! Then with high hopes of another super week of boarding we whisked ourselves to Whistler Blackcomb mountain.

From the bottom of the gondola the mountains are a maze of literally hundreds of runs. Run by run we started to tick them off. The conditions are good (Sara's standards are very high post Big White), a thick icy base layered the slopes and we were very lucky to have 12 cm falling 1 day out of the 6. Blackcomb was by fair our favorite mountain. The village is much big than Big White - people are out and about all hours of the day with plenty of cosy cafes to relax in, tasty restaurants (we even treated ourselves to a nice meal) and plenty of shops!!