my locker buddy is leaving

graeme, my locker buddy at work is leaving on wednesday, so we had a wee send of for him

during the day he finaly tried snowboarding (he's a skiier) he got on pretty well for his first ever try, altho i dont think he'l be hanging his ski's up anytime soon


locker buddies, just think of all that extra room il have in the locker now!


i discovered graeme has very stretchy skin!


anna and matt


anna and tom


rob and chris, the hairy boys


mick and graeme, geting friendly


mick and me


think graeme stuck his tongue in micks ear, he was a tiny bit drunk, mind you so was i, after a couple of jeager bombs and a couple jugs of beer its no wonder, not such a good idea this morning when i woke up, blah

another entry, im on a roll

so its been quite a busy week, first we did the cat boarding, then on friday morning we did first tracks up at the ski hill, i meant we could board for a full hour before it opened up to the public, we were planning on going down to whitefish in the U.S. first thing but after it started snowing and didnt stop on thu night we thought first tracks would make more sense, then head down to whitefish in the afternoon

me and ryan were pretty excited by the whole thing




the first trackers, chris, keavy, me and ryan


everyone about to take of at the top of the bear chair


when we got into cedar bowl, we noticed there had been a bit of an avelanche, doesnt look very big until you see the size of the snow boulders that came from it


see what i mean! if that hit u at high speed it would pretty much squish u








it was such a nice sunny morning and we had the whole place pretty much to ourselves, no public, yipeee


keavy and chris geting ready to head down cedar bowl, think keavy was doing her stretches in preperation


at about 10.30 we felt like we'd been boarding for a full day so we headed home had some lunch and headed over the border to whitefish, seems like so long ago that i was here to catch the train to go and see debbie, i was very tempted to stay over and get the train again to go see her


kinda sums america up


the hustle and bustle of whitefish town centre


we also went to kalispell as we hear that they had a shopping mall, ooooh, we were pretty excited, it was so wierd being in proper big shops again, with lots of people! i bought a top and some board shorts for my summer hols surfing in tofino :) linda was desperate for some shoes, any shoes!! but alas she didnt find any suitable, she did however try on this fetching pair of hillbilly high heel sandals, yeeehaaaa (it wasnt her choice of shoe i made her)


and on our way back we passed this rather attractive saloon, we were tempted to go in for a beer but thought that our lives were more important!


we then went back to whitefish, had some dinner, cheap beers (a pint was only $2.50 compared to $5 in canada) then headed home avoiding suicidal deer on the way, 3 times there were deer crossing in front of us, and there the size of horses!! hit one of them and it disaster!

us having dinner

cat boarding!!

well i got home yesterday and ryan asked if i wanted to go cat boarding today (he couldnt go by himself as he would not have anyone to take pictures of him shredding the pow) so i said hell yeah il go, we booked it and this moring we got up nice and early (some earlier than others) to go on our cat boarding adventures! those of you that dont know what cat boarding is (no its nothing to do with actual cats boarding, altho id quite like to see that) its when a cat truck takes u up mountains, covered in untouched powder and u boarding down all excited and grinning

the time ryan got up, he was very very excited, we wernt geting picked up until quarter to 8. i got up at 7, much more sensible


we signed our lives away and headed out to our cat


the shredding team, ryan and me


our cat, good old number 3


our boards all ready to go up the hill and shred the pows


we had trancievers on and did a little practise finding one in the snow, just incase any of us got lost in an avalanche


number 3 dropped us of


look at all that lovely untouched pow waiting to be shredded, wow i couldnt wait to mess it all up


me shredding it up




having a rest


we'd get to the bottom of the run then have to wait for the cat to pick us up, so we shoved in sometime and made snowangels




some scenic pics






ryan doing his thing


my tracks


me about to mess up a nice open bit of powder


well that was my day, pretty amazing!! we got picked up in a truck to take us to the cat place, then behind us a white stretch limo picked everyone else up!!! because there bus was broken!! our driver promised we'd get the limo back but we didnt! im now holding him to an offer to come and pick me up and take me downtown one night

the creation of the dreads

ok so as requested by debbie here is the creation of the dreads, well up until my camera woman left to go for coffee, and yes it did hurt, esp when she did the ones on top, ouch













and the final result, as i said they have calmed down a lot and gone curlie at the ends