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Skiing at Cypress Mountain – Vancouver, Canada
| February 18, 2009 | Posted by Angela under My Travel Adventures |
Last week I was in Vancouver visiting the PEER 1 headquarters. I love visiting Vancouver. It’s an absolutely gorgeous city full of diversity. The PEER 1 office is located in the Harbour Centre (Canadian spelling) in dowtown Vancouver. They have a picturesque view of the Habour with beautiful white cap mountains in the background.
Althought it was strictly a business trip, I found myself skiing in the mountains one evening. It was Wednesday evening, the day before I returned home. I was asking our Marketing team what they were up to that evening and they said a few people were going to go snowboarding. This was at 4:30pm. Really? No way! Cypress Mountain is literally 20 minutes from downtown Vancouver and the ski lift is open until 10pm. Many Canadians go during their lunch hour or after work. It’s apparent because you will see people walking around in snow boots or carrying their snowboards to the office. Although I had zero skiing equipment and hadn’t skiid in literally 10 years, I got this rush of excitement to go.
So Ramon, our Marcom Production Manager, picked me up and off we went up to Cypress Mountain. We met up with a bunch of PEER 1 employees, Canadians and then 3 of us from Texas and Atlanta. It was so embarrassing because I showed up in my Carlos Santana boots while everyone was in their stylish snowboard outfits. I so looked out of place but hey, I came from the office and had no intention on going skiing. I had to rent everything from pants to jacket to boots and skiis. Everything, including the ski lift, was only $84! Not bad. So there I was in my ski outfit with my skiis and poles while 90% of the people there were snowboarders. It was definitely more “cool and hip” to be a snowboarder. I didn’t care, I wasn’t about to learn to snowboard that night.
We started off on the greens and well, I stayed on greens all night. I had a couple of yard sales but nothing crazy. I just get nervous when I start going too fast and then I lose control. Plus snowboarders jumping all around me made me a little nervous. On our ski lift, we rode over the Winter Olympic snowboard set up. That was pretty sweet to see set up. The entire experience was awesome. Skiing at night, in Canada, seeing the Winter Olympic set up and being wth peers, it was definitely something you don’t do everday…well not for a Texan…well especially not for a San Antonian.
Ramon took my FLIP video and recorded while he snowbaorded down. Here are a few clips.
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