T’is the season

27Oct10

To be jolly...

very jolly.

We’re all anxiously waiting for the weekend to fall upon us because the mountains are starting to open up.

Opening dates were pushed back at Nakiska.. it was supposed to be this weekend, but it looks like next weekend is going to be it. Banff Mt Norquay will be open this weekend, and Lake Louise is SET for Next Friday.

http://www.skilouise.com/

http://www.skinakiska.com/

Everyone’s favorite playground,Sunshine, follows afterwards on November 11th.

http://www.skibanff.com/

Then we’ve got Fernie on December 4th.

I am especially excited for Fernie..

this place is like a

second home to me,

and I always have the best times there, and in all the years I’ve been going there, I’ve managed to make some amazing friends. Check out the facebook page for the opening:

http://www.facebook.com/event.php?eid=157354044279895

Good god, I CANNOT wait! I’m hoping to get in some of those

glorious powder

turns

at FWA, and K3 in Revelstoke as well.

If you haven’t been out catskiing, make sure and get your butt signed up for the “dumps and deals” on the FWA site. Basically, it’s a last minute thing, where they can throw you onto the cat for a wicked price.

http://www.powdercatskiing.ca/lastminute.asp

Need I remind you…?

To see what we were up to last season at FWA, join the facebook page. You will also get notified about some special deals up there…

http://www.facebook.com/FWA.POWDER.CATSKIING

And then there was that heavenly weekend out at K3…

Check out their facebook as well to see what they were up to last season!

http://www.facebook.com/K3CATSKI

Anyways… I’m always buzzing around this time, and I feel like I sometimes have to justify my excitement for certain people.. but all i can say is that if you don’t understand why Im feeling like this.. then I don’t think that you’ll ever “get it”… unless you give this whole outdoor winter lifestyle a chance.

I’ve written about it time and time again:

http://issuu.com/welikewelove/docs/wlwl2/8?zoomed=true&zoomPercent=50&zoomX=1&zoomY=0.3279773156899811&noteText=&noteX=&noteY=&viewMode=magazine

This is my life and I love it. I won’t lie. There were times that I actually thought I was “over it”. Maybe it was the financial part, or the partying, or something… but I dealt with it, and I’ve learnt that I won’t ever be “over it”. I’m sure that things will happen in my life that might limit the amount of times i can go, but that’s it.

can’t stop, won’t stop. ever. This is so much a part of who I am.

I read my own posting from last year around this time.. and it’s true.. I feel the exact same….

http://freshbits.wordpress.com/2009/11/09/its-finally-here/

I can’t wait to do my first post after opening weekend. We’ll all be heading to Louise next Saturday for the

wiwaxy 500.

(i’ll take that

over anything!)

It seems that this year we all didn’t branch off as much… I still saw a ton of my friends that I shred with during the summer… and it was funny because it seemed that the topic, most of the times, was

“how many more days til the mountains open?”.

That’s just how we are. So… it’s back. Our weekends piling into the vehicles, with the stench of several egg McMuffins, for those that regrettably choose to consume at 8 am. The newest mash ups and mixes and 4 different people swapping iPods to hear the “dopest new track”. The forgotten mittens, stinky boots, foggy goggles… frozen noses, corduroy groomed runs, 9$ plate of fries, hugs, high fives, and the impossible task of keeping your eyes open on the drive home after a solid day…. these are all the things, all the moments, all the everythings that I miss when a season ends, and as much as I hate getting foggy goggles after bailing, or manage to get snow down my back, or take a bad fall… at the end of the day… I still don’t seem to mind.

My little winter family is back, and God knows that if the snow fell year round in the mountains, I would be a happy person.