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Shallimus, thats what neighbours kids are for ! just pay 'em a couple of bucks and that will leave you free to hit the hill wink
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Shallimus, couple of sacks of salt should sort that out.
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Shallimus wrote:


Walking through the park to the bottom of that area, you find this:



Now that looks like great slope for mountain boarding down Very Happy Very Happy
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There was a mountain-biker there when I showed up, and I'm sure you're right about the mountain-boarding. I don't think they run the lift at all outside of snow season though...
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It's all getting very real now. I fly out (emigrate, no less) on Sunday Nov 16th... quotes are being quoted for having my belongings shipped out to Toronto (company is paying, thank goodness), my flight is getting booked this week, and the weather is turning cold.

I'm already getting an awful pit-of-the-stomach feeling at leaving my friends and family behind, but at the same time I'm so excited... and on balance, excited is winning Cool
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Shallimus, I have just said goodbye to a friend for 6 months whilst she travel to Oz to follow her dream, you have made the right choice, as if it doesn't work out (which i'm sure it will) you will have least tried and not have any 'what if' moments.

I hope you are making all your mates jealous by rubbing it in at all chances snowHead
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Well, I've arrived!

As of last Sunday, I now live and work in downtown Toronto. I have already joined the U of Toronto ski and snowboard club (seem like a nice bunch) so my Jan/Feb Saturdays are now all accounted for (trip to Blue Mountain). I'm also hoping to get my first Canadian riding in either this weekend or next Shocked
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jealous - me? nah (honest)
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Shallimus, so its crap and you hate it then Laughing Glad it went well & don't forget to post some pics so we can feel super jealous
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arv wrote:
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Buahahahahaha!

Also:
Mount St. Louis-Moonstone - even closer to Toronto!

I'll post pics once I get up there - hopefully tomorrow but definitely sooooooon!
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Shallimus, enjoy. Good to see that despite making it over there you've failed to escape this place Toofy Grin
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Shallimus, co-sign DebbiDoesSnow, rogg, and Swirly -- nice work taking the plunge and good luck for tomorrow - first day of the new weekend lifestyle huh?

At the risk of making myself actually vomit with envy, any plans to catch any Raptors games? Snowboarding and basketball.. too much, too much... Very Happy
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You can't get rid of me that easily! snowHead

Didn't end up making it to the slopes last Saturday as I forgot that I need new outerwear. On my last day in the UK, I realised that my jacket was well and truly on its last legs so I *cough* recycled it to a nice family with a big farm in the country (i.e. it went in the bin) and I stupidly left the trousers in the washing machine as I fled the country. So I'm going shopping for outerwear this evening and will be going to Mount St. Louis-Moonstone this coming Saturday with some people from the office. Conditions as of now are 25-45cm base, groomed powder and fresh snow in the last 24 hours, with more predicted for Friday and the weekend...

As for the Raptors, I'm not (yet?) a basketball fan, but a guy in the office is a big fan and has a season ticket; he can't go to all of them, of course, so may have some spare capacity. It's the Leafs I really want to see - basketball doesn't involve enough of either cold temperatures or unnecessary violence for my liking but I'm told even cräp Leafs home-game tickets are harder to come by than epic powder conditions in the Home Counties in August (well, almost).

I'll post an update with pictures once I'm back from my first local resort trip Cool
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I was at Horseshoe Valley on Sunday, and the conditions were really good - perfect snow! Resort is tiny, but great fun with a few friends snowHead
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Thanks iblair! Bit worried about the rain/snow mix we've been having downtown this week though - do you think it'll be any better further north?
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Just a guess, but I reckon it won't be raining up north - certainly the forecasts don't indicate it
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Trying again this Sunday - looks like we're on!
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Shallimus - Good luck for the weekend sliding !
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Thanks... I have been so busy that I've completely failed to visit snowHead or update this thread. However, I really should, as I have plenty to relate. I'll try to get on it this evening and post some pics / vids with some descriptions of the various places I've been snowboarding since I got to Canada. In fact I've been on 7 different days - jealous much? Little Angel
Also, happy birthday to me - and it's snowing in Toronto yet again! W000000t!
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Shallimus, happy birthday. hope it is/was a good one!
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just too late....... happy birthday shalli......... hope you got some freshies.
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Shallimus, happy birthday for yesterday Cool stop enjoying yourself and hurry up & update this thread with pics !!!!!
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Here, finally, are some snow-related pics from Ontario. My entire life/routine/everything is different over here, and I'm not spending as much time on the computer at home, hence the delay (well that and I'm lazy wink ). I've now had 10 days (I think?) on the hill this winter and should hopefully manage another 8-10.
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Location: Mount St. Louis-Moonstone
Date: 7th December 2008

Taken at resort base. Behind me are a couple of green runs and a chairlift. There are some more challenging runs (not shown) but the hill is fairly tiny. Doesn't matter to me though as it's still a great day out - about 90 minutes' drive from central Toronto, unless it's snowing in which case it could be closer to 2.5 hours.
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Location: Downtown Toronto
Date: 19th December 2008

Outside the front door of my temporary apartment at about 6:30am. Taken just before I hopped in a taxi to get to a friend's house to go snowboarding at MSLM again (same resort as above). The CN Tower is not only an awe-inspiring sight at night with the lights, it's also very handy as a navigational aid when staggering around town at 3am feeling slightly the worse for wear wink
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Location: Earl Bales Park
Date: 20th December 2008

For a really, really tiny hill (but one that's right on your doorstep) you can head to Earl Bales Park - the place I checked out last summer (and earlier in this thread). Note the large buildings in the background - this is really close to the centre of town.

I can indeed bomb the hill in about 10 seconds, but you can make it fun by messing about on little features on the side, riding through the snowmaker cloud (not so much fun as really, really cold - lesson learned wink) and narrowly avoiding the many, many beginners who take great delight in panicking, cutting you up and then stacking it right in front of you...

The chairlift is small, old and stops often to accomodate beginners who have decided to play Twister at the top or bottom (but hey it wasn't so long ago I would have joined them wink. Not a great social event as the run is so short... go on your own, take an MP3 player and lap the hill until the batteries run out Happy This place is open til 10pm every day except Sunday (6pm?) Being so close to downtown, it's only worth going if it has recently snowed a lot.
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Still enjoying it then! any piste is better than no piste snowHead
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It's closer than MK, that's for sure. Also you don't have to go to MK Cool
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and if that isnt a huge incentive to move to canada
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DebbiDoesSnow wrote:
any piste is better than no piste snowHead


That's not right.
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Swirly, you reckon? I would rather a little slide on a hill like that than the little slide in the park nearby or the rip off that is MK snowdome
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DebbiDoesSnow, I'd rather have a walk followed by almost 1500m of descent with no pistes in sight and powder. Than pistes and the associated off piste full of numpties.
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Swirly, yeah its easy to say that when you have natures playground on your doorstep NehNeh
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I'm starting to realise how easy it is to get spoiled. I'm now starting to pine for big mountains without numpties (there are plenty of numpties per square m on the pistes round here). Yet I'm still luckier than 99% of UK boarders in that I get to go fairly often throughout winter.

Next winter I'll just have to go out to the Rockies...
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...and the Rockies trip is booked! 11 nights in Fernie in early March 2010. My 3 co-conspirators will be flying out from the UK, and I will meet them in Fernie (they've booked me accomodation only).

In other news, Ontario snow is Soon™ - none yet, but looks like 10 days from now we should be seeing open resorts and fresh snoooow Smile

Also bought my first ice skates* at the weekend and spent an hour out on the rink with the other half - being Canadian she skated from the age of 3 weeks or so, so I have some catching up to do.

* Go on, make your jokes - remember this is Canada I'm in now.
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mate you're going to love fernie - went there last year, first time in north america on the hills and it was completely different, saving hard for next year.
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Can confirm that Fernie was ace (and was now 2 years ago).
Also been to Whistler for the first time this winter - amazing. Simply amazing.
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