joshua wilsher

Sunshine Village

It is cold today: -20C.

I had my first day on the mountain yesterday. There are three big skiing mountains around here ("Big3"); Sunshine Village, Lake Louise and Norquay. (Sunshine Village is where Kate and CJ worked). I was able to go as I had learned about a special deal they have for people who deal in customer relations here in town. Each of the three mountains are offering a deal for $20 which includes transport, breakfast, ski pass, rentals, tour of the mountain, and beer at the end of the day. What a deal! So yesterday I did Sunshine and soon I will do Lake Louise and Norquay. You can just do it once at each mountain. The mountains do it in hope that you will go tell your customers how great it is. And it was great! It was -20C yesterday but I was well prepared and did not feel too cold. I stuck with my guide the whole day. Infact, I was the only one who did. So I had my own private tour of the mountain for about 5 hours with a guy who's been skiing it since the mid 1950s.

You can see on the map above where Banff is located. I didn't realise how close we are to British Columbia until I was skiing yesterday. I was riding up a chair lift where on one of the poles read a sign "Welcome to beautiful British Columbia", and then the next pole read a sign, "Welcome back to sunny Alberta". My host told me that we were heading alonf the continental divide. So on the way down we were criss-crossing going from one province to another. My host was so excited about skiing yesterday. There has been so much snow and thus a lot ofpowder is on the hills. I fell a lot as I have never skiied powder. The fresh snow softened the falls.

I have the 3-11pm shift at Macca's today and then a few days straight.

posted by Joshiesmoov @ 2:42 PM