This is our rather quaint suttle bus, which drives us up through Narnia each day. It is essentially a school bus, and could be more comfortable, but it is blue, and i think that more than makes up for any of its failings. Teh buckets on the side are where all the skis and boards go - i'm always slightly concerned that they'll fall out one day, but apparently the designer had considered that, and to the best of my knowledge nothing's fallen off yet...
These are the beautiful views that enjoy from my staff room window :D
In one direction...
... and in the other:
Behind the back of my building you can see the mountain range in Washington which is home to Mount Baker - another big ski resort. Alas, i still haven't had my camera with me on a clear day when i've had a chance to take pics, but you get the idea:
Directions to our chairlifts - nice colourful sign in an otherwise white and tree-colour landscape, and some snow-shoers (haven't tried that yet - seems like hard work, but i'll definitely give it a go sometime - probably a better way to get nice pictures too...
And this is Mystery chairlift- the main one that goes up the first part of the mountain (and as far up as i've made it so far. Brockton goes up after this, but i'll do that on skis one day when it's not dark...) Obviously you can't see most of it, but it's pretty long - probably takes a nearly 10 minutes to get to the top of it (although, partly that's because it's really slow - not those nice speedy express lifts you get in the Alps (and other richer ski resorts...)
I've only braved this one on skis so far because the run off from the chairlift itself is ridiculously steep and while i can cope with it on skis, i haven't plucked up the courage to face it on a snowboard yet. Mounting and dismounting lifts on a snowboard is rather more complicated in general, because you ride them sideways (lifts weren't built with this in mind really) and can only have one foot in while you're on the lift - so basically you have to skate down the run-off without the board slipping out from underneath you or tripping over your own board. I'm sure once i get thoroughly bored of Lodge (a set of much shorter runs that goes down the hill instead of up) then i'll persuade myself into it... I'll keep you updated ;)
There are some brilliant view from up the top, but i've only gone up in the dark so far, and not having a tripod, i think any pics i took would just be a big blur. Hopefully i'll get up there in daylight on Friday, which is my next day off. There are some runs where you may as well be riding straight into Vancouver - you can't see anything else but the view in front of you.
I was gonna put up a video of our flat here too, but i think that'll take me over my memory quota - however you can view it on my google web albums :D
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