staff ski day at lake louise

Ok, lets see.

got up nice n early after 6 hours sleep. got some food, hopped on the bus only to be told they had to put the chains on the bus cos it had snowed over night.....20 minutes later get back on the bus. we drive really really slowly for about 5 minutes (like 4 blocks or so) and then we spend another 10 minutes sitting around as they took the chains off....

then we were on the road. the 45 minute trip took closer to an hour but it was sooo worth it. when we got to lake louise - which had recieved a nice 8cm of powder over night - the whole backside of the mountain was closed. the only thing open was the gondola but as i got to the top of the gondola, the backside was just being opened up. this meant i got to make first tracks down quite a few of the runs over there. :-D it was bliss!!!

anyway then as the day went on, the beautiful fresh snow was getting trecked out, so i went out of the ski boundary on my search. I found this beautiful hill side, that had stacks of fresh snow, and it just lead you down this gully, through these trees which has like 30cm of fresh snow around them, and then down another gully. this is where i was thoroughly lost and got freaked out when i saw FRESH BEAR TRACKS!!!! scared the hell outa me, they were facing the direction i had just come. so i got the hell outa there by climbing down this cliff, doing some more sweet boarding in another powder bowl, then doing a 15 minute treck through a forest :-D LOL. easily the best run ive ever done. was soooooo good. anyway yeah.

if you look at the post bellow I've stuck in a nice friendly counter to tell you all how long untill im free!

anyway
toodles

p.s. ashton u wanted a crazy snowboard story - thats the best i can do.