Big White Day 1 – Frustrations and Fun

Today was our first full day here in Big White, and although we’d set an alarm to make the most of the day, we were awake before it even had a chance to go off – the disgustingly awful bed we had been lucky enough to score meant that we had achieved about two hours sleep the night before (at this rate, the flight home is going to seem like the most comfortable thing on earth). Regardless, spirits were a little higher as we peeked out of the window to see sun shining down through only a very thin layer of cloud – blue skies for nearly the first time since we’d been in Canada! For the first time, well, ever, we were up before... [Read More]

Silver Star to Big White

Today was another travel day for us – the last location change before we said goodbye to the white expanse otherwise known as Canada. In true “that’s just our luck” style, we could see blue sky between the light clouds as we waited outside for the shuttle to arrive. Typical. When the shuttle did arrive at 10am, we were all rather concerned that the message “we have a lot of luggage” may not have filtered through, just judging by the size of the vehicle and the fact we had to fit five passengers inside. Regardless, the driver was confident that it would all fit (hopefully not quite in the style that we did on the way up to Silver Star), and we spent the next fifteen... [Read More]

Silver Star Day 6 – Weekend Madness

Today was our last day here in Silver Star, and unfortunately, it was a Saturday. Although so far this journey the day of the week hadn’t really bothered us, today the mountain was busy. The day started a little differently to most – there was a problem with the cable service which meant no TV or internet for the entire building (and perhaps mountain). This meant that we didn’t waste hours watching TV instead of getting ready, but somehow we still managed to not be outside before 10:30am. Luckily today was much warmer than the last few days – around -4C – but there was a considerable wind which was dragging the temperatures down and blowing snow around madly. Tess decided to spend our last... [Read More]

Silver Star Day 5 – Extreme!

Today was our adventure day. Although it started a little slowly (as we didn’t know exactly what we’d be doing), Tori and I managed to book our two-person snowmobile tour, but instead of the 12pm tour like we were aiming for, we were asked to take the 2pm one instead. This was probably lucky in the end, as we likely wouldn’t have been ready at 12, but nonetheless, we had an easy morning in the room and made the (slightly longer than expected) walk to carpark lot E just before 1:30pm. Ed had hit the slopes alone this morning, and although Nat and Tess popped into the village briefly for a spot of shopping and some lunch, they didn’t spend long out and were back... [Read More]