It's SNOW time

Good day to you all from (for a change) snowy Rossland!
Wahey!
Finally yesterday afternoon, after 5 days of sun and blue skys, the cloads rolled in and it began to snow. And just in time too for Matthew and James' arrival this sunday!

Right i'll start last sunday, since i havent wrote for a while.

Sunday was another nice day to ride some ice and thats exactly what we did. We got a lift again with Kevin, our liftie friend. Even though he was running late for work! With punk rock blaring out of the speakers we handbreaked turned (on ice) to a stop at the hill.

We had a few runs down silverload side blues before heading up to the top to try paradise side! On the way Jess shouted me to stop and i turned around to see that Jess had been forced to stop because something was in the way of her on the piste. I thought to begin with it must be part of my binding, fallen off or something then. the little thing next to Jess started moving. It was a little squirel! Really cute little thing aswell. It wasnt fazed at all by Jess' presence and slowly made its way right past her over to the nearest tree.

When we arrived a the top of granite (2073 meters above sea level) we were told that paradise lift (the lift which services the other side of the mountain) had broken down, it had alot of agitated looking people on it.
As you can see from one of the photos on my last update of pictures.

We headed down to the bottom, watched a bit of the ski jumping on the tv's at the lodge, then walked home.

Monday - Jess was summoned to work, leaving me able to snowboard. We walked down toward Angelas and then i hitch hiked to the hill. I met with Tom there an older Canadian snowboarder who had picked me and jess up a few weeks back. We then headed up to the top and onto paradise side, bathed in sunshine, it was lovely and hot, with not a cloud in the sky!
I rode a bit with him on paradise side on 'Gamble' and 'Ruby Tuesday" then he headed off for a coffee at paradise lodge.

I got a total of 10 runs in that day, and by the end i was absaloutley nackered. I headed back over to red via buffalo ridge and main run. A super steep black run. And was amazed how cold the north side of the mountain was, compared with paradise.
I went to hitch hike then seeing how quiet it was i decided to walk/board home.

Later on me and Jess went out to the steamshovel (a pub just up the road from us) for a drink. We watched the curling on a big tv they had there. I had two pints of beer and jess had a jack daniels and coke, it came to $15.75!!! crazy we will wait until James and matthew come before having another drink!

Yesterday (Tuesday) Me and Jess went up the hill. We folled the same route i had done the day before, heading up and over onto paradise side. We rode 'southern comfort' again and again. It's a lovely wide, not too steep blue run with trees either side.
Jess made the most of the excellent conditions doing some really nice linked turns.
We had a lunch of Jam sandwiches and fruit bar over at paradise lodge then came home via the (now very very icey) 'Buffallo ridge'/'main run' way. Jess hadnt been on a black before, and with it being soo icey, it was very hard work for the both of us.
Both tired out, we decided to have a sitting down heal slip race.

Pheww... Im tired of all this typing now!!

Today! Right well today we decided on a day of seeing as both of us are very achey and tired. We walked through the woods up to the hill (which takes about 45 minutes) had some lunch at the lodge whilst watching indoor skating, folled by and excellent hockey match between Switzerland and America. At one point when Switzerland scored everybody in the lodge cheered. Very funny.
After we walked home, now feeling very cold, we popped home for a cup'a tea then out to the shops for make up remover, eye pencil? and moisteriser.
Having a Jessica can be very expensive sometimes!!! Haha.

After this we are going to pick another film to watch tonight. We have exhausted all of the videos here long ago, so now we are onto the childrens section. So i think tonights film will either be, a bugs life, babe or Dumbo 2 (Dumbo strikes back)

Oh and tomorrow me and Jessica will be off to Angelas again for some much needed money (if we ever actually get paid)


Bye for now!!