Cypress Bowl

Cypress is the nearest skiing to where we are staying in West Van, about 20-30 mins away on lovely snow cleared roads. From the local news/neighbours its not usually this snowy in Vancouver, in fact they hardly ever see it apart from on the ski hills but at the moment its like being in a winter wonderland.

They have about a metre in Cypress which meant unfortunately not all the runs were open but those that were where good which some nice moguls to get the heart pumping and the thighs burning. Unfortunately there seems to have been an epidemic of boarders and the little horrors are everywhere, but with a definate preferance for the mid of the slope, on their arses, ideally just slightly below the hill so its a nice surprise when you pop over the top!

Mr R skiied like a demon but I think we need to take some lessons as Aid and Jan are now awesome...perhaps they need a holiday in BC and we can pick up some tips..?

Another good thing was the temperature a positively balmy -6C! One less jumper and no frozen finger tips...I was a much happier camper.

We have snow forecast for the next few days so there should be some great skiing on Boxing Day although we are going to try and get up there again tomorrow if the weather isn't too bad...its taken all of 24hrs for us to become 'blue sky'skiers! Not perfect weather? That's okay, we can always go tomorrow!!!