A 'Big White' Christmas ! (Part II)

Several beers and a steak later in ‘Snow Shoe Sam’s Bar and Grill’ that felt heavenly after our mammoth trek through the BC interior, you would have though I would have slept like a baby !

Ahem ? Not Quite ! Remembering that Gorgeous George would probably still effectively warn shipping that dry land was near in a storm (even though we were now 300 miles from the coast) from my nightmare of having shared a room with him in Victoria several weeks before, I elected to choose the room in our gaff that placed most distance between he and I !

Did it work ? No chance ! That boys snoring could penetrate the concrete bunkers protecting Sellafield’s underground nuclear waste disposal facility. So, staggering out of the digs onto the slopes all of three feet away off we went for a bacon butty hit and a days sunshine skiing !

What a day too ! Gorgeous (who is a world class instructor – having now skied six days since he was eleven years old) led from the front and took us straight up to the Cliff chair for some extreme moguls and drop offs !

Leigh who tends to take two turns at a time only so as not to overtake the man walking in front with his red flag, slowed GG and I down a little but we didn’t hold it against him. Him being Australian and all – mom always told me it was not nice to make fun out of peoples disabilities !

I, being accused of moaning about hidden rocks when I stacked it hugely several times, elected to start jumping over them for the remainder of the day (as per the picture).

In fairness and joking aside, skiing on Christmas Eve was a very cool but very weird experience, especially as we rode over on one chair a full size Santa on a snow board bleeting Ho Ho Ho ! The roof top hot tub and beers overlooking the evening sunset at days end was even more surreal !

Massively unlike Whistler which is an out and out party town, Big White is famed as a family resort (and for appalling amounts of scruffy smelly Australian students) where most visitors actually own their own places up there and enjoy the Christmas event with family fun on snow.

You have to hand it to these Canadians ! They have it sorted out. Merry Christmas every one !