So the end part of the adventure is a week in SunPeaks, where the ski/snowboard instructor dream began 3 years ago, before all this covid schizel stopped play…..
We loved our previous 12 weeks in SP and wondered how it would/changed for this visit. We arrived late on Saturday and were very happy to be staying at a friend’s house for the first 4 nights. The silence was bliss after all the hotels – once an hour we’d hear the shuttle bus pass by!
We took Sunday off the slopes as we felt almost jetlagged from the transfers and the steeps of Revelstoke…… must be our age 🤪 We took a walk through the village and bumped into Rich and then Matt (separately) who are still here 3 years later. Who needs modern tech to keep in touch? 🤣🤣
Jeff (whose house we were staying in) came up for a night with his partner Taya. Sadly Jeff was in a bad ski accident 2 weeks before and had a plated forearm and 20 rib fractures on one side!!! However we all went to his mate’s house for an awesome steak bbq and several beers 🍻 They left to get the staples removed from his forearm the next day !!
Since then we’ve met up with and ski’d with Bridget each day, but also with Andy and Taj and boarded wth Sean who were all here during our original course. Sean took us on some great summer mtb routes through the trees!!!
We also have had a few beers with Joe who we worked with in Bansko, Bulgaria – he’s here to get his level 3, It’s a very small world.
Plus we’ve ski’d with Rob, Wintersports resort manager, along with Rik and Emma, Wintersports owners. Luckily it has snowed 2 nights which has made things much better, so we’ve managed a lot of tree runs and some back country bowls that have had some nice powder.
We made some ace first tracks in the powder of the West Bowl – worth the 10 minute hike to the drop in.
Conditions on the pistes have been strange, almost European in the afternoon so we have been staying high until the end of the day. Just a couple more days and then we will be heading back to The Rock. Best make the most of it.
