So after the level 2 I had an awesome week, as did Chris. As we had both passed we had no re-takes to work towards so we could just have a really fun week, trying to go big off everything, bigger rock drops and cornice drops than we had ever done and trying to tweak the shot out of all of them. This did however lead to quite a few tomahawks. Sky, snow, sky, snow, sky, snow… at least on the whole snow is soft and as Warren Miller said ‘you can’t get hurt in the air!’

So the re-takes where on Friday. Will had to redo Thursday and Friday because of the accident. But the good news is that everybody passed in the end - Harrah! So Friday night was another big night out, with the sad prospect that most people had to go home the next day. It was a weird prospect that after 11 weeks they all just disappear! They all had fun and most are treatening to come back next year!

So it is now two weeks since that fateful Friday when the crew separated and I am now in the Samesun backpacker hostel in a room of four with my own double bed surrounded by kiwi’s and aussie’s. the number of times people have thought that I am either kiwi or aussie is really quite surprising - apparently I’m starting to talk like them!
We had quite a lot of snow in Banff during the week which came as a bit of a shock, it went from short weather to “oh crap its cold - better put some clothes on” type weather. So more good riding at lake louise. I also had my first proper student - I thought Jacko how to board on Wednesday and he returned the favour and thought me to ski yesterday. Both days where really good fun. Jacko got me to basic parallel turn in my first afternoon on skis - how cool is that. I say its all to do with the student but Jacko assures me its all in the teaching. - So I look forward to skiing with the folks at the next trip! Army Rich (one of the IA guys) and I did some hiking up from the top of the Larch chair which was great fun - the snow wasn't great but the view was awesome!So that brings us up to speed. Off to Lake Louise again today for the afternoon. I might be teaching one of Matt’s friends to board for a bit, but then again I might not - we’ll see what happen

Peace and Lovin

J