No excuses this week. We’re both healthy and one of us is getting used to the 5am starts, so we’ve managed to do a blog!
After our sleepy Friday night, we got up early to drive to the Callaghan Valley for some cross-country skiing at the Whistler Olympic park. This was only our third time attempting it (second time for our friend Maria) and the skis are really very skinny… but by the end of the day we could definitely see improvements. Rosie won with 7 falls, Maria in close second with 5, Ollie was clearly not trying hard enough and scored 0.
Biggest skiing achievement of this season so far goes to Rosie, who managed to slalom down a steep hill to avoid a capsized Maria and her discarded ski pole, safely coming to a stop next to Ollie at the bottom. The board is considering revoking this award after she later claimed “I don’t need to use that herringbone shape to get up this hill, I can do it with my skis straight” and then slid backwards and landed flat on her face.
After the skiing, we stopped halfway home for some winter camping in Squamish with some more friends. It was pretty chilly, but we had plenty of firewood and a poodle who was (fairly) willing to sit on your lap to keep you warm. Oh and beer jackets of course.
Thanks to the 5am starts, Rosie now has more free time in the afternoons and has been able to get out of the apartment whilst there is still some daylight. On Tuesday she was invited to join Hannah on a short walk to Bowen lookout from the Cypress ski resort (a spot we also visited last year). It had been cloudy and foggy in the city for the past few days, who knew we just needed to get a little higher to escape it! The views of the clouds over the sea were pretty special.
Ollie couldn’t make it on Tuesday, but on Thursday we went to another popular post-work short walk and viewpoint – Dog mountain (we’ve been here a few times, but it was first featured here). The clouds had mostly cleared by then, but there was still some mist in the city and sea fog to make the view even better.
We now only have four more weekends left in Canada, so the pressure is on to make the most of it! Unfortunately it is supposed to be raining this weekend and we are also going to visit some new (to us) breweries tonight… fingers crossed we can still manage to do something worthwhile on Saturday.
Roaming Rollie 
Good to see you getting back to normal after your Covid bouts and some lovely photographs…… But what have you done to the real Rosie and who is that impostor on skis? I will have to make a knitted skiing Rosie now to go with Ollie! My favourite photo is the one on your bum.
Looking at Loolar’s comment from last week I will also have to fit some Rosie proof locks on my kitchen drawers.
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That type of skiing is mostly flat! I don’t like the downhill parts. I was remote controlling the camera from my phone and sacrificed myself to avoid dropping it in the snow…
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I’ll certainly miss your entertaining blogs;have fantastic final month.
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Thanks Sue! We might do an occasional update, we are moving to Scotland so will still need to show off our mountain photos 😉
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Lovely to see you all recovered and back on your feet/skis/mountains.
Loving the cloud photos!
Make the most of your last few weeks of your Canadian adventure!
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The clouds were pretty amazing! Thanks Maria, it is going so fast
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Really, if Ollie is waiting for the slow coachs who is taking the photograph?
Are beer jackets the amount of beer you need not to feel the cold?
Very thin skis become ice skates.
Enchanting sea of stratus.
No r in Covid.
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He had been waiting there for 15 minutes… That is exactly what a beer jacket is! You could also try wine but I think beer works best.
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