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Easter Saturday was not just about cute Easter bunnies and egg hunting this year, no – this was crazy lunatic day in Revelstoke (and other ski resorts around North America), namely G.N.A.R day! G.N.A.R stands for Gaffney’s Numerical Assessment of Radness and was invented as a game by Scott Gaffney and extreme skier Shane McConkey and is all about having fun while skiing. Participants drum up points by doing the most ridiculous things; like calling your mother on the phone while skiing down a steep chute with no clothes on! Or skiing up to a stranger saying “I’m the best skier on the mountain”. G.N.A.R day falls every year on the 26th of March as a tribute to Shane, who died on this day in 2014 while ski base jumping in the Dolomites.

The last ski race weekend not only saw some great skiing by the Revelstoke U12 kids but also some great entertainment while waiting. Oh yes, we had naked people here too! Continue reading “Would Jesus have turned in his grave?” →

Very much to the parents’ pleasure little Molly also caught a severe bout of ski fever. Lately, with the temperatures going up and the snow, at least in the lower areas, becoming a bit slushy, Molly started to complain that her skis were too slow. Now, the last wax had been applied for the race in Kicking Horse – over three weeks ago! Time to get working on those skis again. Except that this time it wasn’t Daddy, who had a go at it, but big brother Max:

Max fully understood that the performance of the skis could not remain as bad as it was and grabbed the waxing iron to apply the rather excellent “Revelstoke Butter”, a simple, but effective ski wax.