Five Ski Days for November !

Fresh from having dropped Amanda and Owen off at the airport I dashed back through city centre rush hour traffic, back to the North Shore, over Lions Gate bridge and turned left upto Cypress Bowl where to hook up with Me Lord Fonters. Who happened to be in town for the day.

Given the last few days mega snow this was not an easy task as contrary to any assumption you may have made - Canadian motorists can't drive for toffee in the white stuff ! It was like being in Liverpool after a frost when the gritter drivers have all stayed indoors ! Cars sliding in all directions.

Arriving at just after nine I met up with me lord and very oddly another FO named Joe who I had met when Dave Rogers was last out. It seems some FO's like Vancouver - must be the snow (or Cecil's)

Day five at Cypress became six and seven over the coming weekends as two additional lads only excursions were mounted with Leigh, Nick, Garry and I.

Garry (of course one not to pick up nick names) found himself christened 'Uncle Garry' for the day as he managed to use every expletive not in the Oxford concise dictionary within ear shot of several children's ski lessons as he fell in ever more comedy fashion !

When quizzed from the chair lift above by Leigh on one overpass

'if he did childrens parties too' ?

Verbal expletives soon became rude hand gestures ! I suppose learning to ski can be very hard (especially for instructors) !!

Night skiing is available at Cypress on both the Alpine and Nordic ski areas with bars open at each to serve pretty damn special burgers and Kokanee Gold.

This is the 'Holyburn Lodge' on the Nordic hill where Mom, John and I had stopped by for a quick coffee on our days snow shoeing a couple of weeks ago.

Cypress I feel must have 'THE' best views of any mountain I have skied on a sunny day any where in the world.