Song is Mos Def – Wylin Out
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Photos from around Vancouver
Posted on December 16, 2008 by snowboardexperts
Coming home from snowboarding, I saw a car on Broadway with a snowman on top. It snowed 2 nights ago, but most of it has melted. It’s funny to drive around Vancouver with a snowman on top of the car.
It’s interesting to see the new displays at Pacific Boarder in Vancouver (West Forth and Burrard). It’s the Grinch on a motorcycle carrying a big bag of Christmas presents he has stolen.
After the big snow fall, the Mountains looked beautiful from the city.
and I found out I was linked to by (Grousepark – Grouse Park Sessions) – it’s really exciting to see jibbers coming to visit my blog from Grousepark.
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Day 7 – Grouse Mountain – Patches of Ice (Dec 15, 2008)
Posted on December 15, 2008 by snowboardexperts
It’s been a bad day following a string of unfortunate events.
Ok, maybe not that bad. Today I went up to Grouse Mountain for some night riding. Since I had such a great experience on the opening day I brought my short park board with no edges thinking tonight will be just as fun. I did a warm up run at the “Cut”. I was following about 10 feet behind a 14 year old snowboarder, and all of a sudden, he fell and tumbled down the hill so I tried to steer around him. Little did I know that we were both on a Big Sheet of ice on a pretty steep slope. So the minute I got on my heel edge, I fell too and started sliding down the hill fast on my butt. I tried many times to dig into the ice with my board to brake but it did little to slow me down. After the big patch of ice, I sat there trying to figure out whether it was my board (with dull edges) or the fact my legs were still burning from riding in powder at Cypress yesterday. Maybe I should have stretched. As I sat there pondering these issues, I saw other snowboarders one by one either falling on their butt or tumbling down the hill like we did the minute they got onto the patch of ice. Through the evening, I fell many more times on different patches of ice all over the hill, and now my wrist hurts. I better start wearing my wrist guard again to prevent further injuries.
Aside from my falling down, it was a clear and beautiful night.
I got to meet Mister and Mrs. Claus.
It was -9 ºC or 15.8 ºF. The Snow Guns were pumping, just avoid the sections between the Snow Guns, that’s where the ice patches were.
The riders at the Terrain park on the opening day were all back in school so the Terrain Park seem pretty empty.
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