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February 28, 2005
Dude, Where's my car ?
Well - we're just about snowboarded out for now. We've got the hire car booked for Thursday and we're going to make our trip from Calgary to Vancouver hopefully seeing some of the more scenic bits of British Columbia. We've cobbled together a routemap from the votes in the poll and have a brief description of each of the legs that we'll take over the five days.
Days 1 and 2
The first leg is a quick trip from Calgary downtown to Banff (about 2 hrs) where we can have a look around Banff (hopefully the bears should be hibernating) and jump in the hot springs. We're spending the nights at the Banff Hostel (apparently one of the best in Canada).
Day 3
This is the big drive up through the Icefields parkway and up to Jasper National Park all of which should be a pretty spectacular drive (about 5 hours). We'll also stop off at Lake Louise on the way. We spend the night at the Jasper Hostel.
Day 4
Another big drive down to Kamloops (about 5 hours again) where we can stop over for the night and have a few beers on the Beach :)
Again we stay in the nicely priced Kamloops Hostel.
Day 5
This is the final drive down to Vancouver where we get to see some lovely rockies scenary and stop off at Hells Gate where the Fraser river runs fastest - we won't be able to take the airtram but it should still be pretty impressive. We then finish the drive into Vancouver and drop the car off.
Here's the map of the Journey :-
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February 27, 2005
27/02/2005-04:51:14
hehe
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Snow Buddies
Here's some pictures of Rob showing off and erm, me just boarding ;) I actually spent some time in the board park this time, mainly taking pictures of Rob of course, and when I finally plucked up the courage to get on a rail, the camerman didn't catch it :(
... and here's a movie of Rob neatly taking a jump :)
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February 25, 2005
25/02/2005-20:44:57
yey !
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Snow Patrol
We've found somewhere with a card reader so we can put up our first set of pictures from Fernie ... There's a lot of mountain pictures and not many of us - probably for the best :)
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February 23, 2005
23/02/2005-03:20:33
hockey dude !
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February 22, 2005
New Poll
Since we're going on a roadtrip from Calgary to Vancouver I've put up the new poll - have a look at the BC website and see what looks good - I've put up some suggestions but if you see any that are better then suggest them and I'll add them to the poll (and remove the losing entry). It looks like I lost the previous poll by getting 42% of the vote but I'm not convinced Deb didn't enroll some help ... I've also changed the recent entries section to recent comments as they can be a bit difficult to find. Anyhow we're going up the mountain now to have a look at the terrain park - enjoy work :)
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Roadtrip
Where should we go on our roadtrip across B.C to Vancouver ?
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February 21, 2005
21/02/2005-00:39:30
mmm ... mountains
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February 20, 2005
Fernie-tastic
Well, it took 22 hours in total for us to reach Fernie bit it looks like it was worth it ! We've been out on the mountain today and ridden for about five and a half hours. We're staying in the Raging Elk Hostel for the next three days - it's a nice place with good people , in fact the whole of Fernie seems to be full of nice people (Stepford Wives music begins). We're having a little trouble finding wireless hot spots so our connectivity is limited to web cafes (Mug Shots currently). So it might take a week or so to get some pictures up on the site. We're going to be spending the next few days on the mountain so we'll post after that ... Oh and I'm going to put up a new poll then as well - I'm fed up of losing !
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20/02/2005-07:31:35
yey - snow !
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20/02/2005-01:58:13
deb has a 'small' coke
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February 18, 2005
18/02/2005-22:36:17
hello canada
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18/02/2005-10:16:33
debs already making friends
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18/02/2005-05:59:27
leaving
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Bye Bye
Mum's photos from the Airport. Cheers everyone for pitching up, was really nice that you were all there. It was all too early to get sad, but we will miss everyone...
Lovely set of T-shirts though :)
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February 16, 2005
16/02/2005-15:30:29
nicola comes to visit
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16/02/2005-14:34:20
blury rob.
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February 12, 2005
12/02/2005-23:42:48
we got a little peckish ...
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12/02/2005-14:58:47
mum !
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February 07, 2005
07/02/2005-19:56:12
party boys !
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Party People !
Well, I had a fantastic time at the leaving party - thanks to everyone who came along, hope you all enjoyed it. We haven't got loads of pictures - we seemed to forget the camera somewhere along the way :)
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February 02, 2005
02/02/2005-02:37:23
dj deb
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