WINTER 2000

Bring on the snowboarding...oh baby!

So now it's winter, and we're all psyched for snowboarding. We were originally going to get a job at Whistler and get a place in staff housing but those plans got scrapped when we landed out job at DSA. Both of us could have gotten jobs up there but it worked out much better by staying with DSA. We only work three days a week and get paid much more than we would if we were working for the mountain. We have a house in Whistler in White Gold Estates. We sleep in Duravan in the parking lot of the BC Research Complex when we're at work (much to the disgust of the other people working there). We keep getting asked to leave but screw that, there's no reason other than they're jealous of our situation...living in a van and all! So that's the deal for the Winter....bring on the snow!

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Some of the shots are pretty good but we're still not sure about all the features on the camera so the quality isn't perfect yet.

Snowboarding in the Blackcomb Terrain Park on January 27,2001. Still shots taken with the
brand spankin' new digital camcorder!

	Geoff with a big mute grab		Geoff's crazy Mellon collie grab
	Geoff spinning a backside mute 360		Mitch and a front side 180 grab
	Mitch spinning a backside indy 360		Mitch givin'er backside 360 again

Pictures taken on February 2,3,4 and 5th 2001.

	Mitch board sliding across the 30 footer...didn't quite make it!		Mitch leading up to a board slide across the raised rail.
	Geoff with an indy grab off the big hit!		Geoff's first full 50-50 across the 30 foot rail...sweet!
	Geoff 50-50 across the raised rail.		Geoff nursing one of his many injuries...broken hip!
	Geoff with a big 360.		Geoff and a missed nose grab.

Pictures taken on February 10,2001

Geoff in his first boarder cross comp.

Geoff on his way to the quarter finals, beating out almost 50 guys!

No snowboarding pictures this weekend, but here's one of some firemen that had to come to the house!!

Our chimney caught fire on Saturday night so I had to call the fire department. Everything's OK but it wouldn't have been if nobody was home!!

Last weekend it was pretty cold out and Mitch made us move inside. Here's us in our sleeping arrangement in the controls room at work!!

Here's me getting ready for bed in the controls room. That thing in front of me powers a massif test stand...just in case I get board at night!

Well that's about it for the winter. Some pretty good pictures but they would have been a lot more intense if there had been ANY SNOW!!!!!!!!!!! We got screwed over in a big way in the snow department. NB got about 100X more snow then we did. I think the grand total is somewhere in the 500cm range...the normal is about 1400cm. That's my luck though, take a year off school to snowboard and get punished for it. I may make a few more additions so keep checking back. OH BABY HERE COMES THE SUMMER......
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