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Vancouver is just such a beautiful city when its not raining. The Canucks had 3 home games during that week so I spent a fair amount of time @ the arena for practices and games. I was even asked for an autograph :) For games it was great, the spouses and friends of the players have a little lounge with free food, wine & beer where they go in between periods and some spend the whole game in there. Watching a game with Coco, Dany and Cindy's 1 yr old daughter can be very entertaining. So they lost against the Wild on Tuesday. After practice Wednesday I was in the dressing room with Sabou and Burrows and he had this funny interview on the canucks website where I tried to get him saying his teammates made fun of his pelican but it didn't work out. That day was a beautiful sunny day so we decided to walk in Stanley park before I left for Whistler at the end of the afternoon.
That next day @ Blackomb, I had the best snowboard run of my life. We got @ the mountain around 8:30 and that 1 run finished like 3 hours later. We went to the highest point of Blackomb ending that with a t-bar, it had been a while... and a 1hr hike in the back country. The scenery was magnificent, the sun was out, it is not often you have a good view like that on that mountain, we were very lucky. Getting up there was a challenge, when went up on Disease Ridge I was exhausted. We had to get around the ridge walking on snow that could just not hold, my hearth was pounding. I never thought getting my leg up in the air, letting go some safe anchor to go forward and find another one, could generate so much adrenaline.
Then we got to the end of the ridge Dede went first were he thought he could find a good line. The great thing about this is the little prick had never been there before, finally we found an amazing chute with incredible powder and more and more. Then we had like 5 smaller runs before we called it a day. I had to be back in Vancouver for the Game against St-Louis @ 7pm, very boring game that the Canucks won in overtime.
Then it was Vancouver tourism and hockey game against Detroit where the Canucks kicked ass. Sunday my last day was spent in Whistler where we caught a really normal day but Dede brought us in a good spot in the back country where we built a nice little kicker with his chica Amelie. Then I headed back to Vancou for my ride home to Montreal with westjet, they rock by the way.
Thanks to the Sabourin's hospitality and Dede's guidance through some fine snowboarding.
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1 comment:
Vancouver is a great city, and so is Whistler. Nice one Jipp, its nice to read all that! And by the way you have a gorgeous little girl Sabou!
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