Hopefully you are not getting bored yet of hearing about our ski trip weekends: it looks like this might be one of the last big ones for the season. We were extremely lucky to spend another "long" weekend with friends at Fernie's "Alpine Resort". There were 24 of us in total, including many of our Ontario friends: Jim & Andrea and Jacob, Karen and Blair, Rob Budianto, Mike Cleghorn, Chad Tranter, Andy Tulshi, Glen and Rachael, Darren and Christine, as well as friends from home who are now living here too: Shandra and Dave Harman, Sean and Lauren and a few of their friends (Colleen, Amy and Barry), and Darren's brother Kevin and Ann. All in all, a great group of people, where there were enough of us to feel like everyone was helping, so no one was really doing too much work in terms of food preparation, cleaning, etc.
We did a big Costco trip beforehand, and coordinated some baking and lunch/dinner prep the week before, so that all went smoothly ... The chalet was well equipped obviously, and included a hot tub, ping pong table and fussball table, so there was lots of "apres ski" to be had.
Snow and ski conditions were amazing yet again (not sure how we have lucked out this season by having incredible snow every time we have a planned ski trip!), and most of us skiied 3 days: Friday and Saturday for almost all, and some "hard core" groups skiied Thurs and/or Sunday too. It was nice to be able to visit with different people while on the hill, and I think most were happy to split off into smaller groups of 4-6 people to stick with for the day so that we didn't have to worry about "losing" anyone with such a large group.
The highlight of the weekend (other than the skiing of course!) was probably our "Old School Ski Sweater Party" on Saturday night: Value Village must have been busy as almost everyone was sporting some pretty entertaining "authentic" ski sweaters; although most of us just felt like we were wearing our typical high school gear!
We have tons of pictures and video footage from the weekend, so we will try to share just the highlights, but feel free to email if you want us to send more. Not sure if/when we will be back on the slopes--we have our month of March pretty booked up already, but if the snow keeps up, we will likely do a few spring ski days.
Dave is heading into the mountains this coming weekend for his first big overnight hike/backcountry adventure: hiking and skiing the Wapta traverse near Lake Louise for 4 days. We are looking forward to seeing Skye here in Calgary next weekend to visit and talk about wedding plans--she are Chris are engaged and planning their Vancouver wedding for August 31st.
Then it won't be long before I (Beth) will be back in Ontario for Easter. We are so excited about the nieces and/or nephews on the way, and looking forward to helping out with those preparations in April. Looks like there will be a lot more baby photos on our blog and a lot fewer ski trip photos in the months to come!
Hope everyone is doing well--feel free to drop us a line or give us a call any time!
:)
B&D
We did a big Costco trip beforehand, and coordinated some baking and lunch/dinner prep the week before, so that all went smoothly ... The chalet was well equipped obviously, and included a hot tub, ping pong table and fussball table, so there was lots of "apres ski" to be had.
Snow and ski conditions were amazing yet again (not sure how we have lucked out this season by having incredible snow every time we have a planned ski trip!), and most of us skiied 3 days: Friday and Saturday for almost all, and some "hard core" groups skiied Thurs and/or Sunday too. It was nice to be able to visit with different people while on the hill, and I think most were happy to split off into smaller groups of 4-6 people to stick with for the day so that we didn't have to worry about "losing" anyone with such a large group.
The highlight of the weekend (other than the skiing of course!) was probably our "Old School Ski Sweater Party" on Saturday night: Value Village must have been busy as almost everyone was sporting some pretty entertaining "authentic" ski sweaters; although most of us just felt like we were wearing our typical high school gear!
We have tons of pictures and video footage from the weekend, so we will try to share just the highlights, but feel free to email if you want us to send more. Not sure if/when we will be back on the slopes--we have our month of March pretty booked up already, but if the snow keeps up, we will likely do a few spring ski days.
Dave is heading into the mountains this coming weekend for his first big overnight hike/backcountry adventure: hiking and skiing the Wapta traverse near Lake Louise for 4 days. We are looking forward to seeing Skye here in Calgary next weekend to visit and talk about wedding plans--she are Chris are engaged and planning their Vancouver wedding for August 31st.
Then it won't be long before I (Beth) will be back in Ontario for Easter. We are so excited about the nieces and/or nephews on the way, and looking forward to helping out with those preparations in April. Looks like there will be a lot more baby photos on our blog and a lot fewer ski trip photos in the months to come!
Hope everyone is doing well--feel free to drop us a line or give us a call any time!
:)
B&D
