Pheckin' A!
Wootness!
Sunshine Village opened their ski resort today and Rowan and I went out at 9:00am to take advantage. Let me back up...
Yesterday was the Tony Roma's staff party. Technically, it was the Christmas party, though there wasnt' a damn thing christmassy about it. We (the other managers and I) sent the staffers on an "Amazing Race" through Banff that took them all about 4-5 hours to complete. That's 4-5 hours of running around town, hiking up to the top of Tunnel Mountain (the small one that takes me abotu 25 minutes to do), scrambling down something of a cliff, finding all kinds of paraphenalia, and generally seeing everything there is to see in Banff. Oh, and when they got done, we made them chug 2litre bottles of pop. HA!
The prizes we had were phenomenal, with 1st place getting a $900 travel voucher to, get this, anywhere. That's a trip home for free for most people here. Not too shabby. After the race, our boss rented out our favorite pup (yes, Tony Roma's staff has a favorite pub) and we headed over there, drink tickets in hand, and proceeded to get SMASHED. And I mean....really really really drunk. On work. How about it?!
Back to my original story
Rowan and I got up in time to leave at 9:00am this morning (no joke! we made it!) After a couple stops, we made it to the hill for 11:00 and skied straight through till 4:45. Then the hill was closed. Actually, they closed at 4:00 and we kept skiing.
Sunshine Village is quite massive. What I think is damn interesting is that the parking lot is nowhere close to the ski slopes. You have to take a gondola about 15 minutes or so to get to 1 of 2 ski bases and, from there is where they have all their lifts, shops, restuarants, etc. It's fun at the end because, if you don't want to take the gondola down, you can ski along a tree-lined path for about 20 minutes down to the parking lot. Another benefit is that even their lowest runs are high-altitude which helps them with a more consistent snow base.
Today, being opening day and an early early early November 9, the snow base wasn't too big and on tops of some of the mountains there was barely any. We had some rocks sticking out and little saplings poking through everywhere, but they were all easy to avoid. The snow wasn't great either, but it certainly could have been a lot worse. There were only a couple ice patches and most of the snow was packed, but not icy. Occasionally we had some nice powder.
My new equipment is great. I was warm, comfortable, and (i thought) skiing well all day on my new gear. I'm so excited for a whole winter of this.
I just discovered that Sunshine has some webcams too, which can be found here: Sunshine Webcams if you ever are curious to see what I'm skiing in.
There's about 5 of us going out tomorrow. Should be fun. For now, I'm out.
Sunshine Village opened their ski resort today and Rowan and I went out at 9:00am to take advantage. Let me back up...
Yesterday was the Tony Roma's staff party. Technically, it was the Christmas party, though there wasnt' a damn thing christmassy about it. We (the other managers and I) sent the staffers on an "Amazing Race" through Banff that took them all about 4-5 hours to complete. That's 4-5 hours of running around town, hiking up to the top of Tunnel Mountain (the small one that takes me abotu 25 minutes to do), scrambling down something of a cliff, finding all kinds of paraphenalia, and generally seeing everything there is to see in Banff. Oh, and when they got done, we made them chug 2litre bottles of pop. HA!
The prizes we had were phenomenal, with 1st place getting a $900 travel voucher to, get this, anywhere. That's a trip home for free for most people here. Not too shabby. After the race, our boss rented out our favorite pup (yes, Tony Roma's staff has a favorite pub) and we headed over there, drink tickets in hand, and proceeded to get SMASHED. And I mean....really really really drunk. On work. How about it?!
Back to my original story
Rowan and I got up in time to leave at 9:00am this morning (no joke! we made it!) After a couple stops, we made it to the hill for 11:00 and skied straight through till 4:45. Then the hill was closed. Actually, they closed at 4:00 and we kept skiing.
Sunshine Village is quite massive. What I think is damn interesting is that the parking lot is nowhere close to the ski slopes. You have to take a gondola about 15 minutes or so to get to 1 of 2 ski bases and, from there is where they have all their lifts, shops, restuarants, etc. It's fun at the end because, if you don't want to take the gondola down, you can ski along a tree-lined path for about 20 minutes down to the parking lot. Another benefit is that even their lowest runs are high-altitude which helps them with a more consistent snow base.
Today, being opening day and an early early early November 9, the snow base wasn't too big and on tops of some of the mountains there was barely any. We had some rocks sticking out and little saplings poking through everywhere, but they were all easy to avoid. The snow wasn't great either, but it certainly could have been a lot worse. There were only a couple ice patches and most of the snow was packed, but not icy. Occasionally we had some nice powder.
My new equipment is great. I was warm, comfortable, and (i thought) skiing well all day on my new gear. I'm so excited for a whole winter of this.
I just discovered that Sunshine has some webcams too, which can be found here: Sunshine Webcams if you ever are curious to see what I'm skiing in.
There's about 5 of us going out tomorrow. Should be fun. For now, I'm out.
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