Powder, powder, powder
Oh my powder
Wonderfully powdery
Deliciously powderful
Eerily soft and fluffy powder
Relucently bidding powder goodbyes
Yes is it is an ode to Powder. The gloriously white, fluffy, soft, cold, yummy stuff that falls from the sky. It is happening in abundance at the moment. To date over the last 48 hours we have had 53cm. 35cm on one day! The Trans Canadian highway has been shut in both directions for the last 2 days. People are stuck here, 9 bus loads of people.  Some are even sleeping in cars in the right hand lane of the highway all night, hoping to get out. Truck (Semi’s) are everywhere. Unable to escape a truck fortified highway, you have to squeeze between them dodging and weaving between the hauling engines and long carriages.
It makes for some interesting times over at Jiggers, our local watering hole (Read- Pub). It is normally only locals that go there, but at the moment everyone comes in and plays pool. We went last night with Lara and Sonja. It was a good time. Bought chicken wings, with our jugs of beer and had nachos! It was great fun just chatting around, good times. Except when Sonja said to me that “You’re a Smelly Pirate Hooker†then she went on to say- quoting her “Oughta punch you in the Ovaries†She didn’t really say those things, she just loves that movie-Anchorman. I however am not to sure if I like it. I love it, so many quotes, to small a brain to remember them all. If only I could package it up and squeeze it into my brain.
The highways were closed because of the fact that there were strong possibilities of Avalanches in the Kicking Horse Pass, and in Rogers Pass. Things are not dire at the moment, for now the highway is opened up again. People are still hanging around cause of all the beautiful powder on the hill. Oh how lucky I am to have 4 days off….. I’m going to be a sore man by the end of the week. Flying Dutchman here we come! Black all the way baby, bring it on!!!
I like to stretch myself when snowboarding. I do however take it all safely. I just purchased a knee brace, for my shitty knee. So I don’t blow it out in mid season. I have a helmet on the way. I also like to ride with people that are above my level. Mind you I have only been riding for the last 2 weeks. 15th December was the first day that I snowboarded. I was hooked from my first run. It is an amazing feeling, hurts the legs though. The reason I ride above my capabilities is it makes me a better boarder. Go hard or go home, is my motto at the moment. I have made my own style, which I’m sure will be refined as the season goes on. It is part surfer, part old skool skateboarder, part snowboarder. Quite eclectic, you could say. It sure isn’t orthodox, no matter what people say. I get down the hill without hurting myself (most of the time) and that is the whole point. The fun bit is throwing in the moves, and pretend that your riding a surf board on the nice long edges of the transport road (Cat track). Ahh the fun.
