Well...today we felt lovely and warm, apparantly the temps were 10degrees warmer than the rest of the week...finally the sky was blue-bird and the snow so so epic! Ok...the temp was -20 today, can't believe that feels warm, but all week we have been braving around the -30ish temps...you can't even really hang out outside, if you have any exposed skin it FREEZES! Yeah, crazy ay! We usually wear 2 thermal pants, 3 ice-breaker tops, fleece, maybe down jacket and gore-tex to work, PLUS you have to have a layer covering your nose and cheeks or your flesh BURNS (ewww) apparantly it's quite gnarly and gross....
We went back-country (slack-country really, we didn't have to walk that far) and reubs experienced the beauty of skis - he is fully converted now - touring on a snowboard is a complete waste of time & energy! 
The terrain here is SICK! You can access all these lines within like 5 mins walk from the skifield. Today we skied a bowl called Pipestone...the views from here are epic too...
The little village you can see is Lake Louise, that's where we live. The massive mountain on the left is over 3000m - Mt temple. You can ski off it, apparantly it is hard core! The town is about 1500m. This is what the views are like 360 degrees no kidding! THE rockies are AMAZING!!
The track out from where we went touring was super-gnarly! It was like a luge track on skis, winding through the forest and jumping off rocks and over creeks...
This is reubs and dave lundin at the top about to drop into a sick, perfectly creamy, amazing bowl of powdery goodness!
Anyway, next week is supposed to be warm, i think like -7, so that will be a nice change, maybe we can play outside for more than 10mins! It's wierd when its that cold, your skis stick to the snow and you can hardly move - cos its SO COLD!!!
Peace 
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Thats insane how cold it is over there! I have never been in temps that cold. I think like -10 is prob my record ... and I thought I was dying in that!
-7 WARM!!! You CRAAAAAZY!!!
Mmmmmm deep powdery goodness
Heyyy ! this is soo kool thanks for wishing me luck4 exams they are all over yay!how do u get out of bed to -30?? i already hav a summer tan :P,those pics are so sweet.Foose ball is fun! im tryna convine M&D 2 get a table&outside spa hehe.You guys must be in heaven with all the snow and extremly fit!
esta
hey hey awesome to hear what you to have been up to. It sounds totally mad cold over there. Its 17degrees here wtf. Cant wait to catch up with you guys. whats the plan for new years? do you have cellphones yet?
Olivia
Hey there you lucky f..kers.
sounds like great times,lots of storms already by the sound of things = pow pow.yay.
just remember reubs keep it real on the board dont be a trater!!!!!!
jarvy
Mark has built a kick ass box for us to play on! Yay!!!
You guys know anywhere good to get snow/ice from in Chch other than the skating rink?
Time for an update me thinks!!!
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