Deals! Deals! Deals! on local mountains.

Posted on February 24, 2009 by snowboardexperts

It’s Spring, and there are lots of deals happening in the local mountains. here’s a few. Grouse Mountain Y2Play Pass: $355.00 (purchase now! it will sell out soon) – a popular pass that includes riding and skiing for the rest of this season as well as all of next season. – All Y2Play purchasers receive [...]

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Day 60 – Slushy Moguls & Sharp Edges on Rock Hard Ice (Feb 19, 2009)

Posted on February 23, 2009 by snowboardexperts

I took the day off today to practice my own skiing.  As I’m getting ready for the CSIA level 1 course, I’m skiing a lot more and riding much less.  I got up to Grouse Mountain at 12pm today and it was really hot.  The snow has become quite slushy so I decided to practice [...]

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Day 61 – Riding GNU Board with Magnum Traction and Reverse Camber (Feb 21, 2009)

Posted on February 23, 2009 by snowboardexperts

Morning Lesson It’s a beautiful sunny day at Grouse Mountain today.  I taught a drop in lesson this morning for level 4′s.  The 3 kids told me that they are comfortable turning on blues and blacks so we decided to head over to Centennial on our first run.  Turned out they were having trouble side [...]

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GPS from Baker

Posted on February 22, 2009 by snowboardexperts

It’s been 2 weeks since Baker, as I was going through my GPS data from my trip, I found something quite interesting, for 1 second, I was going 50 km / hour, which is pretty damn fast on a snowboard. If you see it on the map, it is #4.  When we just got off [...]

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Snowboard Instructors vs.Toastmasters !!

Posted on February 18, 2009 by snowboardexperts

I twittered about attending Toastmasters the last 2 weeks, I thought I would talk more about the experience.  My friend introduced me to Toastmasters about a year ago, but when VanCityAllie talked about it in her blog, I thought I better start checking it out to see what all the fuss is about.  The reason [...]

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Day 53 – Dream Wedding on Snowboards (Feb 8, 2009)

Posted on February 11, 2009 by snowboardexperts

One of my friend got married this weekend, she and her husband had a wedding on snow.  They are both passionate about snowboarding so they got married on snowboards with their family and friends on the hill with them.  At one point, my friend did a jump off a kicker while holding her wedding dress [...]

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VASS Challenge Cup (Feb 26, 2009) @ Grouse Mountain

Posted on February 11, 2009 by snowboardexperts

VASS video “gravity is your ally” produced by GiantAntMedia.com . VASS video “skiing removes barriers” produced by GiantAntMedia.com My friend Jess‘s company GiantAntMedia produced the 2 videos above.  It is about the VASS Challenge Cup happening on Feb 26, 2009.  My friend Mark is a volunteer ski instructor with the VASS on Saturdays at Grouse [...]

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New Book: “Hollyburn” by Francis Mansbridge

Posted on February 11, 2009 by snowboardexperts

I just bought a new book today, since the start of recession, I’ve been hesitent to spend any money on things I don’t need.  This book, however, captured my interest because I was a cross country ski instructor at Hollyburn (Cypress Mountain) for many years before switching to snowboarding.  There were lots of old photographs [...]

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Day 52 – Ski the Peak (Feb 7, 2009)

Posted on February 10, 2009 by snowboardexperts

Today I had no lessons in the morning so I took both my snowboard and my skis up the gondola (Man ! is it Heavy !!). My friend Richard said I look like a traveling sports equipment salesman. There were not much new snow overnight so I was expecting everything to be icy. On my [...]

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Day 54 – Taking a Photograph at Mount Baker

Posted on February 9, 2009 by snowboardexperts

Mount Baker’s Chair lift is so closed to the poles that are holding the chair lift up.  My friend Ken, who sits on the very right, tried to take a self portrait with all of us in the photo so he reached out to the far right and aim the camera at us.  All of [...]

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