Pictures Part II

The adventure continues with the clock reading Pims O'Clock, tea by the fire and Mary Poppins biking.

To England and Back in Seven Days . . . Bottoms Up, Cherio, Here we GO!

Jetted over to the UK for seven days of eating, drinking, visiting and lots of relaxation. In this short amount of time, I have splurged on chipsticks, fish & chips, kababs, then washed it all down with an extra cold pint of Guiness and an episode or two of Top Gear.
We sampled the taps from the Red Lion to the Kingshead, we ventured on the underground to Buckingham Palace, we shopped at TKMax and Next (my favorite store) and enjoyed treats from buttons to jumbo candy packs of fizzers and lollies.
Last but not least, we always made time for the home of witty banter. We want your Doof Doofs! Seriously don't ask me . . .  it still doesn't make sense. Doooof Doooof Doof Doof

Here are some photographs that I captured with my marvelous camera apparatus.

Pictures Part I: Landscape  

            

        

SIKKNITS . . . if you don`t know, now you know

Last Sunday, I went to the West Side Farmers Market to meet up/ hangout with Jenna and place a personal order on a Sikknits special. Can't wait to pick it up! This girl is a fast knitter!

The location is really cool and if you get time this coming weekend, check out their booth and ask what up!?!?

http://www.sikknits.com/index.html

Walking is good for you . . . go outside

There are times in life when you just feel like going for a walk. And as it turns out, it happens to be the most relaxing thing for you. Enjoy the small things.

Fernie Kinky Rail Jam

January 16, 2010 Fernie Kinky Rail Jam.

Saturday morning started very very early with my alarm clock ringing at 4am + 10 minute snooze. I was out the door by 4:40am and on the road to Fernie with the girls, Jenna and Kylee, by 6am.

My intentions for travelling out to fernie initially, was to practice using my new dSLR and maybe enter the comp if the park looked fun. So as it turns out the park setup looked really cool with a variety of boxes and rails from S-L, the sun was shinning and just to add one more argument in favor of signing up, it turned out to be mathematically logical to enter the competition.

- cost of entry = $20+gst
- iff you enter in competition you receive 20% off lift (approx. $20)
- $20 bib deposit, fully refunded with bib returned
- bag of treats = chips, chocolate bar, candy (how easily I am persuaded)
- a comp volunteer also volunteered to hold onto my camera incase I wanted to take pics for other heats

=  SOLD and now contestant #16

The contest was Jam format and the ladies group was combined with the men's. OK here we go second contest ever.

The Girls hiking, werk it werk it

As the jam started (12.30-1.30pm), I quickly learned alot about myself in a few runs:
1) left over christmas weight was making my feet quite heavy  2) I am out of shape 3) my hiking technique could be improved from tiny strides to something normal . . . I wish the magic carpet would magically appear (I have become so spoiled at COP).

I have to admit I had such a great time participating and I don't just mean shredding the park. All the girls were so friendly and encouraging to one another. The volunteer events team were so nice and really helped make the day so pleasant with big smiles on their faces non-stop.

Top: Events team showing where. Over Where? Over there!

Bottom: New friends

After an hour of hike and drop in jamming; Jenna, Kylee and myself hung around the park for another hour or so, took some pics and worked on a few tricks. Jenna was killing it on the metal death rails and the crazy kinked box, just attacking it . . . full speed ahead captain. Kylee added three new tricks to her bag (I don't know anyone who gets three as in 3 new tricks in less than 30 minutes).

Top:Jenna on the Kinky Box

Bottom: Miss Kylee Front Siding

I want to thank these wonderful ladies for the early morning drive, the song that was stuck in my head all day, the powder turns, star fish slides, MJ's to log rolls, to slow-mo body rolls and car dancing and singing and ofcourse high beaming . . . YUP, YOU KNOW THIS. . . Ah Yeah

So Good: Kylee, me, Jenna

Alright . . . Back to Snowboarding

ShrEddie

Hitting up the down box with a mean tail press

Spinning Front Side 180 on to tail press . . . Smooth Moves

Freestyle Ski Jumping World Cup

Some Pics from Sunday's Ski Jumping event. Cool to watch, these guys/ girls are crazy!

Freestyle Skiing World Cup

Canada Olympic Park has a full event line up this winter season. This month includes Freestyle Skiing, Skeleton, Canada Snowboard tour (half pipe and new this year slopestyle), Snowboard World Cup, Bobsled and ofcourse the Olympic torch relay.  .  .  Just to name a few full listing here http://www.winsportcanada.ca/cop/copevents/special_events.cfm#altius1

Today's event at COP, the Freestyle Skiing World Cup, had a warm day with temperatures around 7 degrees, but had strong 30 km winds. You could see the coaches doing their best to signal in their athletes when they thought a window of low winds presented itself. But these athletes were finely tuned and were able to complete their course, which went something like this:

Mogul Mogul Mogul Jump/Aerial Mogul Mogul Mogul Mogul Jump Aerial Mogul Mogul

   Pretty intense on the knees if you were wondering. If you have never seen this sort of event I would highly recommend watching it if you are in town. It is free, so why not check out the finals which are happening tomorrow (Sunday).

COP looking like an Ant Hill from all the hype of the Competition. On the right is the drop in point at the top of the course.

Bottom of the course where all the spectators can watch and OOoooooo and Aaaaaa.

Competitors getting corked on their first Aerial on the course during Men's Qualifiers.

What? . . is that? . . . It is!

I have been shopping for a dSLR for a while now and finally I have landed the purchase.  Haaaaaave you met Canon EOS 7D?

Homemade

A few days ago, I had a friend ask me about the backyard setup we have in the backyard and where we got the box. Homemade! And making the box was easy . . . getting the top sheet a little tougher, but very worth it.

Originally, there was an article in Transworld and unfortunately I haven't been able to find it but just doing a quick search on youtube and ehow there are tons of references to "How to build a snowboard box".

Here is another good one incase you need more speed for the entry: http://snowboarding.transworld.net/how-to/how-to-build-a-drop-in-ramp/

That being said, you don't have to build a crazy box to have fun. One of my favorite things is that little black garbage lid that I spin on. Sometimes you gotta be creative and think outside the box. Wuaaa wuaaa

Sunday in Fernie

Saturday night we made a last minute call to head to Fernie and ride Sunday.  Great move on our part, besides security who told us we couldn't sleep on the hill Saturday night. But besides that, a gorgeous day starting off with first chair, fresh powder all morning, warm temperatures, tree runs, valleys, drops and best of them all . . . no lines. Everyone headed home or partied hard the night before, which left the entire mountain to us.