Finally some sun and no wind

Which meant I could finally take the kids skiing and we would be able to enjoy ourselves.  There is potential at the hill but to pay 120$ for Tracey and me to take the kids skiing is not viable. But luckily they have a t-bar/poma lift at the bottom that costs 20 per adult. So we took Charley and Aiden skiing today. On our last day in Revelstoke Charley(4.7yrs) dropped the harness and started snowplowing her way down, and today she repeated this feat and did super well. Confidently carving her way down the little groomer, and most importantly really enjoying herself.  We also rode our first T-bar together.

And Aiden(3.5yrs) was doing well, laughing and enjoying himself. He still does not understand  the whole pizza wedge thing but he has fun and loves it so that’s all I can ask for.  It may be because the “treats” they enjoy while skiing.

Great times with kids and then at 3.45 pm I headed up and toured to the top of Volcan Nievo in 2hours and then pulled in another 2500 feet to tour 7500 ft. I can’t let up now.  Looking forward to a day off but not yet maybe tuesday. The sun sets at 6pm, and I had some great Alpen glow turns and then the stars were out for my final lap and they were gorgeous.

Rain, rain go away come back another season

Wow did it ever rain today, we headed up for a morning jaunt and barely made it out of the truck since it was raining sideways. It poured all day and finally changed to snow and let up in the evening. I thought I would take the kids skiing but instead we went and tried to poach a hotspring/pool at a hotel. Is tough being inconspicuous with two kids but we went for it. The hotspring would normally cost 28 $ per person and 14 for the kids, so a total of 84$ for the family. Not a realistic price to pay for anyone, especially since it was just for one dip. Anyhow, Tracey was too nervous so Stuart, the kids and I went for it. Funnily enough the pool was cold with barely any hot in it and we ended up freezing, and the kids were shivering and crying afterwards. Somehow we did not get caught but nor did we enjoy it.
Later in the day I headed up to get some more vertical and see what had happened in the mountains. Luckily the rain had changed to snow and I had three fun runs in the evening. I cannot imagine what the snowcat drivers think when they see me, headlamp on, charging up their runs. I don’t think this is a  normal situation here.  Anyways here I am with my suffer face on braving the winds…

Thanks William Blitz for your donation, don’t worry it won’t go towards super expensive hot springs!

Calories for ten thousand feet

Often people have asked me what I typically have in my lunches when I tour ten thousand foot days. Well it varies greatly but  I looked at my lunch today and thought I would count it up. I had a banana, an apple, an orange, a tangerine, an avocado, 2 snickers bars, 2 muffin bars, 2 ham/cheese sandwiches, and a peanut butter/butter/honey sandwich. Which adds up to approx 2800 calories.  That’s my lunch.

But today, since I was skiing off Termas de Chillan, at around 9000 ft climbed I decided to have

a Hot Dog completo, plus papas frites, + coke which added at least a 1000 calories.

So 3800 calories in for a ten thousand foot day. Seems appropriate, since I was not hungry at all afterwards. Well for an hour at least and then I came home to a fantastic Chicken curry on rice with Naan bread that Tracey has made for us.

Getting close to a million, much closer everyday…