and still skiing. I've now had 42 days on the snow, so on track for my 100 day goal for the season. Only had a couple of falls so far, one of which bruised my ribs so I had a few days of pain reaching down to tighten boots, cough and sneeze, but got away quite lightly.
Weather and snow have been a worse than usual whistler mix. It's been far too warm lately and this time last week it was raining all the way up the mountain which pretty much trashed what snow there was. The very high stuff has come back a bit with repeated freezing, skiing and grooming, but the mid and lower slopes have been very granulated and heavy and not nice to ski. More snow is now forecast for tomorrow and monday, not much but hopefully enough to help bond the crud together...
And as it was raining I finally gave in and went boot shopping. I can't remember how old my Salomons were but I'm certain I had them last time I was here as James did all his research and ended up with pretty much the same boot, so they have done fairly well, and I squeezed a last few weeks out of them. The linings were so compressed there was no padding left on the ankle bones, the velcro on the power straps wasn't sticking and the heels and toes were worn on the angle from walking around, and it would have been over $200 just for new liners. Went round 5 of the main boot shops in town and got fairly consistent advice between rossignol and atomic, and the rossis I managed to get for $360 with guaranteed fit. I've skied them 5 days now and there are bedding in quite nicely, might have to get the top of the toe box blown slightly if the linings don't bed in a bit more in the next few days, but fairly minor in the scheme of things, and definitely a better fit than the old ones had become.
it was great having company for the past 5 weeks, and its been strange being back to just the 2 of us this week, although it has been nice to give the liver a little rest. We had the day in vancouver with gary & john on monday and it was so warm I was wandering round stanley park carrying my fleece. Blair will be our final visitor this winter, coming for the weekend in 3 weeks time.
we got our replacement wine delivery with no problems this week, although now the boys have gone back I don't think we will get to drink much of it, so will have to pay the duty and take it down to the US with us. I'll have to take a bottle up the mountain the next time we have a sunny day and get a photo for Chris at the winery against the mountain background, just to show it travels.
Maria also finally got her tablet from TD - its only taken 6 months since we confirmed that we had met all the criteria, and even then it was down to the local branch manager going out and buying us one as the process broke. In fact he had to buy us 2, as the first one came in DOA. Its nice to know that there is still some good customer service and taking responsibility in the banking world....
Weather and snow have been a worse than usual whistler mix. It's been far too warm lately and this time last week it was raining all the way up the mountain which pretty much trashed what snow there was. The very high stuff has come back a bit with repeated freezing, skiing and grooming, but the mid and lower slopes have been very granulated and heavy and not nice to ski. More snow is now forecast for tomorrow and monday, not much but hopefully enough to help bond the crud together...
And as it was raining I finally gave in and went boot shopping. I can't remember how old my Salomons were but I'm certain I had them last time I was here as James did all his research and ended up with pretty much the same boot, so they have done fairly well, and I squeezed a last few weeks out of them. The linings were so compressed there was no padding left on the ankle bones, the velcro on the power straps wasn't sticking and the heels and toes were worn on the angle from walking around, and it would have been over $200 just for new liners. Went round 5 of the main boot shops in town and got fairly consistent advice between rossignol and atomic, and the rossis I managed to get for $360 with guaranteed fit. I've skied them 5 days now and there are bedding in quite nicely, might have to get the top of the toe box blown slightly if the linings don't bed in a bit more in the next few days, but fairly minor in the scheme of things, and definitely a better fit than the old ones had become.
it was great having company for the past 5 weeks, and its been strange being back to just the 2 of us this week, although it has been nice to give the liver a little rest. We had the day in vancouver with gary & john on monday and it was so warm I was wandering round stanley park carrying my fleece. Blair will be our final visitor this winter, coming for the weekend in 3 weeks time.
we got our replacement wine delivery with no problems this week, although now the boys have gone back I don't think we will get to drink much of it, so will have to pay the duty and take it down to the US with us. I'll have to take a bottle up the mountain the next time we have a sunny day and get a photo for Chris at the winery against the mountain background, just to show it travels.
Maria also finally got her tablet from TD - its only taken 6 months since we confirmed that we had met all the criteria, and even then it was down to the local branch manager going out and buying us one as the process broke. In fact he had to buy us 2, as the first one came in DOA. Its nice to know that there is still some good customer service and taking responsibility in the banking world....
Sorry to hear about the rain. Bit crowded and overcast here but otherwise very good. Location has changed (again?) and 109 is Mt not Mu (had to look that up) but will drop by at some point: http://www.gunar-live.com/index_htm_files/1192.jpg
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