fernie no more

my time in fernie has come to an end, i cant believe it! im gona miss so much about this place, the 360 degree views of the mountains as u walk downtown, the friendly pensioners that stop u in the street and ask you how your day up the hill was, the poutine and perogies (im already missing the perogies) the tons of great people iv met here (altho they have all just about left) the fact that you can walk down the street and not get shouted at by neds, i love canada for not having neds. im going to miss living in a small town filled with friendly people who all love this place, iv loved being part of this comunity for the last 6 months

so here are a few pics from my last few days

a scotland sticker, woop


the last supper, anna and sol at our last dinner at the curry bowl


terrance the SVL squirell


it was anna's last night and drink the royal dry so to comemorate the end of an era we had a shot for old time sake


almost all the bars in fernie have now been drank dry and im proud to say i had a part in every one :) hic!

they had a very wierd band playing, very dificult to describe but im sure u get an idea from the pic


they kept blowing confetti everywhere, everyone was covered in the stuff


so anna left this morning, and me and sol booked our bus for tomoro, its starting to sink in that im actualy leaving! im realy excited about the next part of my adventure but sad to be leaving such an amazing place. so tomoro we get the bus to nelson, which is about 4 hours west of here, we'r going to spend a few days there then head onto vancouver, splits the journey up a bit. then we'r thinking bout heading down to seattle to check it out so il keep u all posted. im heading to bed so i can get a nice early night so i can get up realy early tomoro and finish up sorting the house etc, then going to mugshots for one last breakfast before geting the bus

shoving in time

i have been doing my best to fill my days with fun things and trying not to just drink every night and sleep late everyday

on friday night it was drink the central dry, all the bars are being drunk dry, there mostly all closing for the summer altho some do stay open. the central had a buffet and they also hung up all the lost and found clothes so basicaly if you seen something that you liked you just helped yourself

the lost and found stuff hanging from the clothes lines


me playing on kats crutches, aparently its bad luck so hopefuly i wont break a leg


anna and kat looking rather attractive


me and sol after a few $3 vodkas


the ginger celt population of fernie


yesterday we went to the park to play frisbee golf, it was lots of fun, it was such a hot sunny day! i took this pic of the train which went past as we walked to the park. im gona miss seeing the train, its quite impressive your just walking along the street and this massive train hurtles past, what i wont miss is the noise its horn makes as it goes past my house at all times of the night


on the way over the bridge i took another pic to show the diference from the last time i was here back in jan when me and debbie went on our walk in -25 degrees, so diferent now


frisbee golf!! when me and debbie went on our walk in winter we couldnt figure out what these metal basket things were for, it all becomes clear now! debbie there not for feeding animals from as i first thought, doh!






i htought frisbee golf was just a fun sport like minature golf but aparently there are people that take it very seriously and compete all over the country, they even have loads of diferent types of discs for different shots! who'd have thought

on our way home i almost stood on a snake, i got quite a fright. after kirsten reasuring us it was harmless, we caught it, touched it and took some pics




well the last of my housemates left about 5mins ago so im all alone in the house for the next week, its wierd, seems like hardly any time ago we were moving in!

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staff day - its all over

well, monday was staff day, the day when they let the staff run riot in lizard bowl and build loads of kickers etc all over the place. it was an amazing day, very sunny :) everyone was super excited and very keen to get drunk

this was a couple jumps they built at the top of lizard bowl, was so much fun hitting it as well as chilling out in the sun with a beer and watching everyone going big


dave and tim chilling out and cheering on the people that bailed big time


the bears den, the main party area


some guys built this rail and they were pulling some spectacular moves


the gang hanging out catching some rays and drinking some beers, good times




the bears den from the chair lift


the map of the hill, the red arrow shows where the bears den is


a couple pics to show how baldy the hills starting to look, its quite sad to see it all turn brown




at around 5ish they fed us, there was a lot of hungry drunk people around, most people had been drinking since 11am, with no food, think all the food got polished of, they were giving all the leftover food away i even got a green tea ice lollie, it was horrible, like sucking on a cold tea bag


after the food we got to work on drinking the griz bar dry, we had a lot of pitchers of disgusting beer




everyone got VERY VERY drunk, like sliding the length of the table naked kind of drunk


me, jonny, keavy and chris looking a bit worse for wear


me and my boss susie, she was an awsome boss, thanks for hiring me for the best department on the hill EVER


the empty rental shop, so sad that its all over


and the empty staff area, normaly its full of boards and boots and clothes


afterwards we went to the central, a lot of people crashed and burned to soon and never made it. jonny and mick were extremely drunk and silly, as per usual


ashley and susie - ashley could always be found drunk in the bar downtown, im going to miss seeing her wee face


so what have i been doing since monday u ask? well the weathers been pretty rubbish so we'v been doing lunch, bought a frisbee and a basketball. we went on a day trip to cranbrook, which normaly wouldnt be that exciting but after being in fernie for months and never leaving, the wallmart there was about as exciting as a big exciting thing :)

oh and they chopped the pants tree down, aparently they do it every yr, seems that tree's dont like to be covered in dirty underwear. already the tree next to it has a few pairs of pants hanging from it

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lift me up

its over, i cant quite believe it, but it happened the season ended, i feel empty. what will i do tomorow? seriously, what will i do????

season 06/07 is over!!

well thats it, the season is over! i cant believe it i thought it would go on forever :'( its was a great last day, but also a sad one to know that it was my last ever run's down the new side. i have staff day tomoro so i have 1 more day on the hill, but they only have the old side open. so i rode all day and then rushed down to get the last chair up to lost boys cafe, where we had beers and played some american footie before doing our final run down to the base for some food and drinks, we then managed to cram 11 people into pauls car!! i think it must be a new record, it was the tightest fit ever!! esp for lisa who was cramed into the smallest boot i think iv seen. anyway, here's the eye candy

iv been meaning to take a pic of the pants tree, the tree of shame for a while, this is where u throw the pants of ur previous nights conquests, its always interesting to see new additions


i went on a couple of last runs through the terrain park, which was great, i went big and pulled of a few grabs, and didnt stack it one, woop. it was a nightmare geting back down tho as u have to go along a massive traverse, and with the snow being so wet and sparse it just wasnt happening so i unstrapped and wlaked, much easier. anyway after that i met up with anna, sol and lisa for a wee tea break


heading back up to make the most of the last day


me at the lost boys cafe at the top of the timber chair


i cant believe im not going to see this view everyday, after seeing it almost everyday for the last 5 months iv never taken it for granted, it blows me away everytime! im going to miss this sooo much :(


the gang at the lost boys cafe, one last gathering on the hill


playing a bit footie






and posed for one final pic


im off out to yet another party tonight, its party central here right now, what with everyone leaving and all the bars having drink the bar dry nights etc. then tomorow is going to be a complete piss up with the staff day etc, il be glad of a break from it all!!

its all coming to an end at a scaryly fast rate

well, im siting at work, its very quiet and its my last day, and since then internet at home has packed in i thought it would be a good time to update my blog. so the weather has been crazy lately, its was scorcin hot for days, then it poured, and i mean poured with rain on monday, but the hardcore boarders that we are me and anna hit the slopes, had 3 runs got soaking, made progress on our 180's then headed to kelseys to spend debbies $20 voucher she got with her season pass (thanks debbie) and worked on our new hobby......geting fat. then yesterday out of no where came tons of lovely snow, it was epic, they opened curry bowl just as we got there and got fresh tracks all the way, it was defo one of the best runs of the season for me!
so here's some pics from the last week, when the sun was blaring down

i climbed polar peak again, and this time i didnt have to stop and sit down half way up, woop im officialy fit


another pic of me with fernie in the background


on sat they had a big air comp, i had to work, can u believe it!! but i did manage to get up there for the end, it was great everyone siting around in the scorchio sun, those guys in the comp went BIG!





on sat night we went to see concorde dawn at the royal, it was a big drum and bass night and it was great, next day however we didnt make it up the hill till 2pm, oops, oh well the snow was rubbish so we did 1 run then headed to the wood, it was there drink the bar dry closing day, and when i say drink the bar dry thats exactly what happened, by the end of the day they were only selling what they had left, i.e. surprise drinks, i believe the bar was drunk dry by about 7pm.

it was so so sunny, a great day to be sitting out on the patio with a beer, even if it was realy dark ale cause thats all they had left!




they even had a band, this guy just decided to start playing on the table


anna was super stoked to be there dood


in fact we both were


sol, obv geting as much beer in as poss before they ran out


the drinks menu, it didnt take long before things were geting scored of the list


they even started to run out of glasses


me and ed taking to regulation drunken pic of ourselves




some table dancing


it was so sad to have the wood close, it was defo my fav place to go for a beer and food after boarding, the food was amazing!! and they has a fireplace that they let u stoke urself so u could dry of, sob sob

after that we had a bbq at svl, it got of to a bit of a wobly start when we hadnt actualy checked if the bbq worked or whether it had any gas but after a lot of fidling about and a singed hand it was up and running

gaz and anna geting things ready


then we had a bonfire when things started to get dark and cold, who'd have thought old xmas trees could make such high flames!


so the very next day after all that lovely sunshine it poured it down, just when i thought summer had arrived! the season officialy ends on sunday, cant quite believe this is all going to end! we have a staff day on monday where they let us run riot on the hill for one last time, followed by a big end of season party. then after that i have 2 weeks until i leave the lovely fernie, what am i going to do with no boarding! well me and anna have decided we'l need to take up driniking in the day, geting fat and playing frisbee golf, the frisbee has been purchased, now we just need to wait for some sunny weather