Snoooow!

So muchos excitement where the weather is concerned! Over the last two days the Mount Seymour (my mountain) has had over 70cms of snow fall (and probably more since that doesn't include last night...). And today it's got so chilly that it's actually snowed in Vancouver as well - 5-10cm in downtown Vancouver. Apparently this is already twice the November average, with more forecast to come this week. This all bodes rather well for the predicted La Nina this winter - wetter and colder, mmm...

This is obviously very good news where ski resorts are concerned. Whistler opened yesterday, Cypress Mountain (one of the other local mountains that both my flatmates are working on) opened today, so as I speak my flatmates are enjoying their first day at work. (Or perhaps not, given that they had to get up at 6am... we're just not acclimatised to that anymore!).

As it stands, Mount Seymour is going to open this time next week, but depending on the snowfall over the next couple of days, they might well open it a few days earlier. So that's all rather exciting!

Before it snowed down here over night i tried to take a picture of the impressively snowy mountains (post70cm dump), but unfortunately i couldn't find a good vista that wasn't from a moving bus. Still, you can at least see the snow on this one.


This was taken from Deep Cover, which is moreorless the most easterly point of North Vancouver. I've spent a couple of days visiting the outlying villages that form part of North Vancouver like this, mainly cos it's only a $2.50 bus fare to get to them! I'll do Horseshoe Bay and Deep Cove in another post though.


And in other exciting Canadian news, I'm going to try curling today and am more amused by the prospect than is perhaps reasonable. Pictures shall hopfully follow...