15th Apr 2008
Whistler / Blackcomb snowboarding!!
Yay! Had so much fun on Saturday night. Angela and I went to Whistler (Canada’s #1 ski resort) for snowboarding. I had been to Whistler before like 9 years ago for skiing, but since it’s been such a long time I remembered absolutely nothing so this was officially my first time there. Actually we had an option to goto Whistler mountain or Blackcomb mountain which were side by side. We opted for Blackcomb since Angela said she liked it better.
We got there around 8:30am, took 2 hours on the Sea-To-Sky Highway (highway that connects Vancouver to Whistler). There were tons of constructions going on here and there as they’re building it all up for the 2010 Winter Olympics. Not a bad drive I guess, pretty scenic. It was a super nice day by the way, unlimited visibility, no clouds, just awesome sunny day. There was tons of cars at the parking lot so I thought it’s going to be messy up there but turned out to be not quite busy…guess the mountain was just insanely vast. Took some gondolas to where all the lifts were - it was a really cool ride compared to the rides at some local mountains like Cypress or Grouse. Whistler was just too huge…
We picked a couple different lifts and went to different areas of the mountain. I was shocked by the size of the mountain….not even sure how to describe the vastness it’s almost like…snow fields with no ends….everything in front of you to 10 kilometers away from u was all snow white…you could basically board to anywhere without having to worry about falling off cliffs…etc. I of course have brought my Canon G9 camera with me as I had expected tons of picture opportunities and it turned out to be even better than I thought.
We were lucky enough to witness this guy’s “can-you-marry-me” proposal to the girl, on top of the mountain, lol. People around were snapping pics, the girl was pretty shocked, kind of interesting I guess. Apart from that, we also took some time off and went to this big jump area where people showed off their jump skills. I tried out my camera’s “Sport” mode and was able to snap some pretty nice pictures of the jumps!
I practiced a lot on my snowboarding skills since this would be the last trip for the season. I would say I’m much improved by now compared to 3 months ago when I first started….all thanks to Boom who taught me a lot of basic skills and also made me a VCD with snowboarding tutorials 
I was able to freely control my turns now and was able to go downhill in a zig zag pattern without falling too much. I think I fell a couple times only when the terrain was too bumpy. We left at around 4:30pm which was when the mountain was closed. Really had loads of fun, and was a pretty unforgettable experience.
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