Blog #7

Back in the day when I was 9 years old, there was an extremely large snow storm that came through Calgary. It probably snowed one foot, but as a four foot eleven 9 year old child it felt like more. Anyway, my parents talked to many of my friends parents to organise a tobogganing day up by the University of Calgary. The hill was called suicide hill because it was one of the steepest, longest, and fastest hills in the North West part of Calgary. When we got to the hill there was no one there before us and a lot of us were scared to descend the hill. I decided to go first with my friend Graeme on an old fashion toboggan. We descended the hill flying through the powder having snow cover us head to toe. Then at the bottom of the hill we looked back up and started to run back up the hill. We continued this for most of the day. Going in big trains of people, spinning sideways, and hitting jumps. It was one of the best tobogganing days I have ever had in Calgary. Hopefully I can have a day like that skiing.                    

Blog #6

Over the summer I was volunteering in Golden, BC with the Golden cycling club. We were building a pump track and bike skills center. The first day we finished the overall outline of the pump track and shaped the dirt, and then the plan was to leave it overnight and finish packing the dirt in the morning. Unfortunately that weekend Golden had some of the worst rain it ever had over the summer. So all the dirt was mud and made packing it next to impossible. That weekend many local people and families came out to help with the construction of pump track and skills center. Among these locals were two little kid. These two kids wanted to help very badly, but they were unable to lift the shovels or other packing tools. So they decided that stomping on muddy off camber berms and big rollers as tall as they were to be a good idea. So the first kid went and attempted to run up one of these rollers, and slipped on the mud and fell on to his stomach. The other started to laugh as the one that fell started to cry. But the laughter was short lived as that kid slipped as well and began to cry and the one that was crying before was laughing. I found this very odd that one moment he was crying and the other he was laughing.