I just got back from the U S of A.
Remember Kiyoka? Well she was invited by a couple of her friends, (Trung and Jason - both Vietnam born, and now French Canadians living in Vancouver) to go skiing at Mount Baker in Washington state. They are "expert" snowboarders so she took me along to look after her.
In less than an hour from Van, we crossed the border - did you know it costs $6 to enter the US!? - as soon as you roll out of the crossing everything looks different. On the Canadian side there's a retail park and a big highway with industrial parks either side. On the US side there's a main street with buildings that look like there out of the wild west and within a mile all it changes to sparsley populated residential area with tiny timber houses - its like you've been tranported to no-wheres-ville USA. Real weird
Oh, and you'll love this bit if your reading from Blighty.... Gas (petrol) in Canada is around half the price of the UK but in Washington it was $2.67 a gallon or.....
34 pence per litre!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Anyway, back to the point....
After another 15 miles we were at Mount Baker (the big mountain you can see south east of Vancouver on a clear day) which is actually a domant volcano - I'm not too sure what that means but you can see the steam coming out of it from Vancouver!
Oh, and it has A LOT of snow.....
A few years back they had 1140 inches in one season - yes, that's 95 feet folkes!
Needless to say, there was plenty of snow to ski on
Didnt manage to take many pictures - too busy having fun!
Big snowflakes....
Of course it snowed a lot while we were there, but it wasn't too cold so we all had a great time. Unfortunately Kiyoka fell akwardly on the first run (down a black obviously) and hurt her shoulder which just got worse through the day but she was brave and didnt stop us all having a lot of fun.
And then of course it was time to go :-(
If you're in the neighborhood, give Mt Baker a visit - its well worth it - good snow - good trails - old lifts and NO-ONE there!!!
And down the road, the have freeky moss covered trees - ooooooooooow spooky!
Later dudes....
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