Posts Tagged ‘Snowboarding’

Snowboarding in Brauneck

Monday, January 18th, 2010

Weather forecast was dismal (rain and fog)… which meant hardly anybody went to Brauneck/Lenggries this Sunday.  Hardly anybody accept Lukas, Lina and I that is.  And when we got there, on the first gondola ride up, the sun broke through the clouds, and we enjoyed a great view all the way across the plains to [...]

Rained out of Big White

Wednesday, April 15th, 2009

Easter weekend we went up to Big White (about 400km East of Vancouver) with Giom and Nadia.  It was a nice weekend, but we didn’t have so much luck with the weather…  Saturday we went on the piste, but the weather was only half ok – some snow and hail, and some clear spells between.  [...]

Whistler, Nanaimo, and a bike ride home

Monday, April 6th, 2009

Wow – what an intense weekend!  On Friday we got up at 5am, to be on the slopes at Whistler about 9am.  Coming out of Vancouver, it was rainy… we were scared it would be a cold and wet day again… but as we got closer to the mountain, the weather cleared, and we had [...]

Best snow, worst weather…

Sunday, March 22nd, 2009

On Friday we went up to Whistler with Nadia and Giom.  At the base it was +3C, and raining heavily… :-/  But we went up anyway – and true enough, a bit higher up the rain turned to snow, and what snow!  Lots and lots of it!  The down side to heavy snow our goggles [...]