News... and then some.

Ok first of all I have been trying out my new skis. A pair of Line anthem, Everybody keeps telling me they are pretty soft but I find them rather stiff, maybe I should have gone with a shorter length but atleast I'm happy with their performance. They are really good on the hardpack right now but I guess the conditions in the piste are pretty much optimal. We have been building a minipark in the backyard and its starting to take shape and soon enough we can start to use it. We just need a little higher inrun.

Second we bought a car together and it seems to be working out fine. Its a -87 Ford F150 with room for 6 actually. So far there doesent seem like its going to be any problems with it. There is some leaking from the powersteering but nothing spectacular apart from that.

Not very remarkable news yet. But the main thing that will dominate my life here in Canada is that I from now on is a Snowmobile-owner. How did this happen then, to make a longstory short I tried out one smashed it into a rock and the repairs would be more expensive than the sleds worth. So 4 000 Cad later me and my friends Emil and Mike (thanks guys for helping me out) where bashing it to get it in riding condition. After 5 hours working outside in -11 and a couple of hundred dollars spent on parts it seems like its actually in pretty good running condition, hopefully it wont fall apart totally tomorrow. This really puts a serious dent in my budget. 

Well what to do next? I will first of all enjoy owning a way to powerful sled and then Im going to try to sell it and anyhow my airplaneticket home from this Godforsaken country will be rebooked to a earlier date and I will start looking for work ASAP. Wish me luck.... 

Pictures will be posted shortly

Merry Christmas and a Happy New year everyone!

My first Christmas away from home was a really good one, lots of snow 14cm fresh in the Resort. Really nice and good weather (well at least in the morning) too bad i had a bit of a sore throat and wasnt in the mood for skiing that much. At home we have built som kind of rail-setup to play on when the weekend arrives. This week not much work has been done on it the basic construction is one 12-foot 3-inch ABS-plastic tube and a load of snow sprayed with water to make an base where the pipe is frozen into, lets see if holds up for more than one run =) If it doesnt our next try will be to construct somthing from the free lumber we got from the local Home Hardware store. 

Emil and I working with the rail, really bad posterior on me, got snow in the neck...

Christmas in Canadia, meatballs and some homemade herring and three bottles of our owners own hombottled wine, Emil drank most of it but I dont mind it wasnt really in my taste =) 

The Backyard with the railyard as closest neighbour behind the trees

A picture of the hallway and Amelie in the tv-room taken from the kitchen

The stair to the second floor and the stair to the 3rd in the far end of the picture.

My room at the 3rd floor i share it with our new friend Martin that have been living with us for a couple of weeks. 

On another note the skiing the last days after Christmas have been dominated by rockhard pistes (really good though) and rockhard rocks annihilating all my skis (really boring) Everything easily accessible from the system is tracked out and in the alpine its 4/5 on the  avalanche dangerscale. This year the snowbase just isnt in a good condition from a avalanchesafety perspective. We have to wait and see before we can hike to the more exposed runs. so for now we are pretty much confined to the system and the less dangerous routes. 

Have a good one!