Its been a while...
Right, sorry thats its been a while between drinks here people but I'll try and fill you in on the last week.
Sun Peaks was awesome. So much better than NZ as the snow was deeper and softer and the hills where so empty. So Tuesday you know about, we drove there and looked around. Wednesday we gathered our gear and headed to the mountain, which you could walk to from the hostel, but having a car meant you could drive up in 5 minutes rather than lug your gear for 30. Anyway, we booked a group lesson for 9am that morning. We met our instructor at 9 and found out we were the only people in the "group". Nice. A 2 hour private lesson for less than $100 and that included a lift pass! Alyn, our Welsh instructor with a plethora of dirty jokes, put us through our paces for 2 hours. Being in a group on your own means you get a real full-on and in-depth session, but damn you have to work hard! No breaks to watch others fall over! Anyway, after that we headed up the chairlifts and took a nice long green run (beginner run) called the 5 mile down. Took us ages and we where completely cream-crackered after it but we did good.
Thursday we slept in a bit to give our weary bones a bit of a rest as the season has just openbed so the hills are almost empty of people and you don't really have to rush. We did some more snowboarding for a few hours, headed back to the hostel for lunch then another session in the arvo. All in all we actually started to feel like snowboarders by the end of it rather than people who fall down a mountain with a plank of wood nailed to their feet.
Friday we packed our stuff and headed home back to Quesnel.
I'll fill you in on the rest in the next post...
Sun Peaks was awesome. So much better than NZ as the snow was deeper and softer and the hills where so empty. So Tuesday you know about, we drove there and looked around. Wednesday we gathered our gear and headed to the mountain, which you could walk to from the hostel, but having a car meant you could drive up in 5 minutes rather than lug your gear for 30. Anyway, we booked a group lesson for 9am that morning. We met our instructor at 9 and found out we were the only people in the "group". Nice. A 2 hour private lesson for less than $100 and that included a lift pass! Alyn, our Welsh instructor with a plethora of dirty jokes, put us through our paces for 2 hours. Being in a group on your own means you get a real full-on and in-depth session, but damn you have to work hard! No breaks to watch others fall over! Anyway, after that we headed up the chairlifts and took a nice long green run (beginner run) called the 5 mile down. Took us ages and we where completely cream-crackered after it but we did good.
Thursday we slept in a bit to give our weary bones a bit of a rest as the season has just openbed so the hills are almost empty of people and you don't really have to rush. We did some more snowboarding for a few hours, headed back to the hostel for lunch then another session in the arvo. All in all we actually started to feel like snowboarders by the end of it rather than people who fall down a mountain with a plank of wood nailed to their feet.
Friday we packed our stuff and headed home back to Quesnel.
I'll fill you in on the rest in the next post...
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