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Canada 07/08 – Silver Star – Day 6

18 January 2008

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Day 6 – our final day here at Silver Star started with news that the 12-year old boy who was involved in yesterday’s ski-lift accident was in an unknown condition at a Vancouver hospital. The boy was at Silver Star on a school trip, and was in a snowboard lesson at the time. This was [...]

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Canada 07/08 – Silver Star – Day 5

17 January 2008

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Day 5 started early, with an energetic wake-up call – well, at least for Pip and I with our clock radio going off so loud that I had to jump up and switch it off (to save our ears). We couldn’t sleep much after this, so we decided to just get up (normally we enjoy [...]

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Canada 07/08 – Silver Star – Day 4

16 January 2008

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Day 4 at Silver Star was our ‘relax’ day. The day was meant to start lazily, with no alarms being set – however, Pip and I were up before 8 as we normally had been the past few days. Nat and Tess were, however, up intentionally early as they had booked transport from here at [...]

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Canada 07/08 – Silver Star – Day 3

15 January 2008

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Day 3 at Silver Star started as did any other day here at Silver Star – about 8am was the alarm wake up call. Breakfast was largely uneventful, but the report coming from Ed reporting a -14C current temperature was not overly comforting. We had had pleasant weather relative to this so far, with max [...]

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