Spent the last 4 days boarding at Silver Star with Brett, Elisa, Dave, Tim and Dug. It was good times. It's been really warm here ... +5C so the snow has been a bit mushy, kinda like Australia! Great for spending time in the board park as the landings are a bit more forgiving! Drove to Big White...
After 2 days of sweet powder the temperature has taken a balmy turn. Today it was +2C which is just wrong. It was trying to snow but rain was falling from the sky. It was heartbreaking .... there is no god! Been boarding the last 2 days with Plumby and his crew from Newcastle (Elisa, Dave, Tim,...
Went out for some beers with the blokes from my instructors course, got home at about 3:30am ... just in time to grab a few seconds sleep before catching a bus to Silver Star at 7am. The bus' battery was flat and we left late so they gave us a refund ... Gold ... Free bus trip!! So I'm back...
Today was the last day of my 3 day Level 1 Instructors course and GUESS WHAT .... I passed. It was pretty full on actually, the riding component wasn't too bad but you have to ride the way they want you to, the teaching component was a bit of a challenge as we had to prepare 10 lessons and were...
Spent the last few days boarding with Luke and his brother Steven. It's been good times as we've been riding knee deep powder the whole time. Silver Star is a cool ski resort with a friendly atmosphere and great little village ... not to mention some cool pubs!
My flight from Vancouver to Sydney was fairly uneventful apart from Air Canada's outdated planes and lack of service. I managed to avoid jet lagg despite Air Canada's best efforts to ensure that I would get it by serving a chicken curry at 6am. On arrival in Vancouver it was snowing so...
Wow so I'm leaving for Canada in just over two weeks. Time sure does fly! Here's the plan for when I arrive there. I fly from Sydney to Vancouver on January 6th, my flight arrives in Vancouver at 6am then I have to catch a bus to Vernon, BC that leaves at 10am. From Vernon I'll get some sort of...
Dan's Capers used to be a blog about my travel adventures but it has evolved into a collection of my thoughts and things I like. Enjoy
