classes are almost over!

Last week was pretty intense, lots of school work.

This weekend was absolutely amazing. Started off on fri. night with the CUSSC jib jam at one of the boys house. They brought in a bunch of snow and a box and had a party just around the block from uni. I didn't do any skiing but plenty of socializing. All the boys from CUSSC were there, plus tons of new people. And heaps of girls which is always good. And it had just snowed in the mountains so it was on for sat.

Sat. morning I woke up nice and early to go skiing. Checked the snow report and not only did the storm the day before close the mountain, another one hit over night leaving 50cm of light powder waiting for us. Me, scott and Garret got right on the road to get some fresh tracks. When we stopped in at a rental shop on the way for garret to rent a board I couldn't help myself. I rented a pair of demo skis for the day. These skis were absolutely amazing, way bigger then what i'm riding now. They helped me rip all over the place.


So yeah I was super pumped to have some decent skis to ride and we continued to the mountain. We were a little worried about getting up the access road because scotty's car cant make the journey so we needed to hitch a ride up. And with everyone eager to get the the powder it might be hard. Anyway when we pulled up the chain fitting station was just a zoo. Everyone was parked just waiting for the road to open. They were still plowing so we had plenty of time to find a ride. I just walked around and within seconds had found 2 rides to take the 3 of us up. We got to up there and things were absolutely mint. Fresh tracks for all. And blue skies, amazing day. Might have been best one yet, that was probably because of the skis. Once some of the slopes got tracked out scotty wanted to try my skis. So i gave his tele's a go. Unfortunately a new section of the mountain opened as soon as we switched. So i tried to ski the pow on teles and that didn't work out to well. I got mine back after one run. The rest of day was super amazing and the lifts stayed open till 5 because the road didn't open till 10.


 
 

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When I got home i was so exhausted. Skiing all that powder takes a lot out of you. Then my friend erick stopped in and said he was thinking about going skiing on Sun. How could i say no. It wasn't fresh powder any more but it really warmed up. I was skiing in shorts and a flannel. Beautiful day on the hill. The snow was so soft and it was so hot. And super sunny. I did work on my goggle tan this weekend. The mountain closes next weekend and I prob wont make it up but I had one heck of a last weekend for myself.

I was pretty worried because I still hadn't started my philosophy paper due on wed. But when the snow falls you got to go. When I got home from sun. night I had an email saying the due date was extended till next tues. Sweet as!

Next week, from sun. to thurs. me garrett and pete are going to go tramping. We are going to do the Abel Tasman track. Its far north south island so it should be really warm. Should be and excellent time. I just need to finish my philosophy paper and I'm home free except for finals.

The only let down was this morning (mon.) This Friday is the last day of classes. The school host a huge party "the tea party"/"the stien" which has 5 bands and goes on all day. 2 mondays ago 2000 tickets sold out in like 3 hours. Today 700 more went on sale at 8am. I went down about 7:45 and got in the back of a huge line. After waiting till about 10 am and 30 or so people from the ticket counter it sold out. I'm pretty bummed but maybe ill figure a way into it. They're a few tickets on trade me for sale but they'll prob. go up to at least 100 bucks.

So yeah, the weather is so nice today. Shorts and a t shirt. Super sunny.

ohh and I figured out what I want to do after finals. I'm trying to find a way to go to help out in the tsunami relief effort on one of the pacific islands.

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