Thursday, February 23, 2006
Mt St Louis/Bluestone
Very excited to test out our newly purchased equipment this weekend so we packed up the car and headed north, half an hour past Barrie to a ski resort with a good reputation called Mt St Louis/Bluestone. We were concerned that the day would be blizzardous as all weather reports indica
ted bad weather, dangerous roads, snow squalls etc. So off we went with some concern on Sunday morning, picking up another exchange teacher, Bola from Manchester, England, who is teaching in Orangeville, a small town NW of Kitchener/Waterloo and lives in an even smaller town called Fergus. On arrival at the ski fields the weather was sunny with a light breeze. We were all very excited and off we went onto the slopes. Alex took another board lesson and picked up a few more skills and is looking really confident. Jenny is understanding more and more how balance and weight shift over the skis help with her control. We came in to the cafeteria area, for a lunch break, which had an upstairs section for people buying food and a downstairs for the bring your owners. We got the picnic basket out of the car and within seconds, with the aid of a thermos of hot water, had hot noodles accompanied by vegemite & cheese crackers. Yum!
Back to the slopes to discover more runs and get some good skiing in on machine groomed powder. Pulled the pin at 3.30 after a fantastic day. We all talked about the next ski trip which is at Talisman with the Margaret Avenue school students and then maybe Quebec (Mont Tremblant sounds nice) as we drove to Barrie to drop in on another exchange family from Australia who we met on our Quebec City trip. They will be returning to Australia in June.
Cannot believe the traffic on the 400 going both directions on a Sunday evening. The 400 is a 4 to 6 lane duel carriageway heading north from Toronto through Barrie and bey
ond carrying ski traffic and cabin traffic (lots of holiday cabins scattered all over the lakes area around Georgian Bay are owned by Toronto people who use them as weekend getaways). These guys don't muck around getting to their destinations either. They were all doing over 120k/hr in a 100k zone, including trucks and buses. No fun in that so we got off the 400 as quickly as we could only to find the road from Orangeville to Fergus. This road at night is extremely treacherous, especially with the wind blowing. The road was covered in a fine mist of moving snow that swirled around or built up into piles on some corners where the wind was not blowing as hard. Needless to say we crawled along this road. The next day we heard in the news that 2 accidents, one fatal, had occurred on the roads in this area. All in all an excellent day, some great skiing, interesting experiences and a catch up with newly acquainted friends.
ted bad weather, dangerous roads, snow squalls etc. So off we went with some concern on Sunday morning, picking up another exchange teacher, Bola from Manchester, England, who is teaching in Orangeville, a small town NW of Kitchener/Waterloo and lives in an even smaller town called Fergus. On arrival at the ski fields the weather was sunny with a light breeze. We were all very excited and off we went onto the slopes. Alex took another board lesson and picked up a few more skills and is looking really confident. Jenny is understanding more and more how balance and weight shift over the skis help with her control. We came in to the cafeteria area, for a lunch break, which had an upstairs section for people buying food and a downstairs for the bring your owners. We got the picnic basket out of the car and within seconds, with the aid of a thermos of hot water, had hot noodles accompanied by vegemite & cheese crackers. Yum!Back to the slopes to discover more runs and get some good skiing in on machine groomed powder. Pulled the pin at 3.30 after a fantastic day. We all talked about the next ski trip which is at Talisman with the Margaret Avenue school students and then maybe Quebec (Mont Tremblant sounds nice) as we drove to Barrie to drop in on another exchange family from Australia who we met on our Quebec City trip. They will be returning to Australia in June.
Cannot believe the traffic on the 400 going both directions on a Sunday evening. The 400 is a 4 to 6 lane duel carriageway heading north from Toronto through Barrie and bey
ond carrying ski traffic and cabin traffic (lots of holiday cabins scattered all over the lakes area around Georgian Bay are owned by Toronto people who use them as weekend getaways). These guys don't muck around getting to their destinations either. They were all doing over 120k/hr in a 100k zone, including trucks and buses. No fun in that so we got off the 400 as quickly as we could only to find the road from Orangeville to Fergus. This road at night is extremely treacherous, especially with the wind blowing. The road was covered in a fine mist of moving snow that swirled around or built up into piles on some corners where the wind was not blowing as hard. Needless to say we crawled along this road. The next day we heard in the news that 2 accidents, one fatal, had occurred on the roads in this area. All in all an excellent day, some great skiing, interesting experiences and a catch up with newly acquainted friends.# posted by Dibbo @ 7:15 am 
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-10°C, snow way I'd like that. This is a fantastic idea guys. Great pic's, how about some action shots on the snow.
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Yeah how about some action shots of you all. Have you had any really big stacks? Sounds like great fun and can't wait to be over there with you experiencing it all.
Hey was just rolling thru wanted to let ya know ya got a cool blog here Nice Job.
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