Today I’ll be strapping on my snowboard for the first time in two years and I simply can’t wait.
I learned to ride about 12 years ago at my local mountain of choice – Seymour. This was mostly because it was the quickest to get to from Surrey, it was the cheapest, and had the best runs for beginners. It’s still my ‘local’ of choice so I’m particularly pleased to share the following information about “Guys Night Out”.
Keira first wrote about G.N.O. a few days ago but it wasn’t until today that I actually looked into it a bit further.
The Event
Head to Mt Seymour every Monday evening from January 7th to March 24th for Guys Night Out – Girls Ride FREE. A shared evening of skiing, snowboarding, hanging with your friends, and making new ones.
The Details
* Women must pick up a Girls Ride FREE voucher from one of our retail partners. Refer to the list below.
* Present the voucher at Guest Services any Monday after 6:00pm from January 7th to March 24th to redeem it for a FREE lift ticket.
* Please remember to make a donation to fund Breast Cancer Research.
* Après in the Elevation lounge with specials, ski and snowboard films, and prizes provided by the event sponsors.
The Charity
Supporting Breast Cancer research through Boarding for Breast Cancer and the BC Cancer Foundation.
It was revealed yesterday on the Strombo Show that local rock goddess Bif Naked has been diagnosed with breast cancer. As a dedicated participant of the Run for the Cure, and knowing women who have struggled and survived, I’m always game for something that supports cancer research.
Boarding For Breast Cancer (B4BC) is a non-profit, youth-focused education, awareness, and fundraising foundation. Our mission is to increase awareness about breast cancer, the importance of early detection and the value of an active lifestyle. [B4BC]
So there you have it, you can head to the best in local skiing/boarding and support a great cause while you’re at it. For more information about Mount Seymour visit their website, and stay tuned for a recap and plenty of photos from our girls night out (for a cause) at the mountain.
Update: Everything you’ll want to know about hitting ANY of the local North Shore mountains can be found in Paul’s hugely informative blog post.
This past fall, I was the official live blogger for Vancouver’s first Facebook Developer (and Design) Garage and I’ll be back again for an upcoming event later this month which will feature the Facebook Awards.
The first ever Facebook Awards: Best of the West, brought to us by some great sponsors, will feature applications that were created right here in BC.
As the Best of the West event is fast-approaching here’s a quick round up of all the nominees.
Are You Normal? by Kinzin
Hockey Pool by Ben Nevile
Green Gifts by Social Signal
Scratch and Win by Backstage Technologies
Up4 by Active State
Music Gifts by Digital Kiosk Technologies
Funny Jokes by Geoff Peters
My Food Fix by Matthew Chiu
BC Event by Ahmad Wasfi
Zoykes! by Zyokes!
I’m Reading by Garth Shoemaker
Coffee Shop by Danny Wood, Liam Bath and Kirill Zdornyy
My Bus by Handi Mobility
Class Talk by Arash Sanieyan (Peer Globe)
Mixx Maker by Project Opus
If you’re a fan of any of these, leave me a comment or feel free to submit your favourite BC-made application to Best of the West Nominations or add it to The Wall. Stay tuned to the wiki to find out more about the upcoming event January 28, 2008.
The other day Keira and I headed over to the Mount Pleasant neighbourhood of Vancouver for a mini-adventure. My main focus was the JEM Gallery, so I could pick up Bev Davies‘ Punk Rock Calendar.
I added the © Bev Davies” over these photos – you’ll have to buy the calendar to see the rest.
This is the second calendar that Bev has released, 2007’s “Nardwuwar the Human Serviette vs Bev Davies” being the first.
There are few photographers in this wonderful world who have taken pictures of both 60s garage punk legends, The Barbarians and hardcore heroes, The Dead Kennedys. In fact, I challenge you to find one! And if you did, it would be Vancouver, BC Canada’s Bev Davies. [Nardwuar]
The calendar I bought is #122 of 500 made and each photo is removable so when the year’s over I can put them in a frame and display my very own Bev Davies snapshots. Artists featured in the calendar include: Buddy Selfish, D.O.A., No Exit, The Bill of Rights, Modernettes, The Dishrags, East Van Halen, Death Sentence, The Pointed Sticks, Los Popularos, Rude Norton, The Young Canadians, Subhumans.
“…The photos are from a time, a place, and I hope if you were there, and I know lots of you were, that you will enjoy these photos. For you people who missed it, weren’t born yet, or were doing something else, welcome.” – Bev Davies.
They’re available at the JEM Gallery, located at 225 East Broadway, which is in itself is pretty amazing (I spent some time coveting the fridge magnets that featured old neon signs of Vancouver).
I highly recommend that you pick up this piece of punk AND Vancouver history (for under $20).
Watching Team Canada win gold
I completely forgot to blog about the Canucks Super Skills as it’s a great, cheap and fun activity that happens every year at GM Place. Our favourite players take to the ice in a competition of speed and accuracy. It’s always a low-dough event and extremely fun for the kiddies.
Unfortunately John (who had got me tickets by surprise) thought it was NEXT Saturday so discovering we actually had to go today threw a wrench in our plans. It was a nice and entertaining wrench, nonetheless.
John was able to take some GREAT shots with his new camera and I hopped on some top secret wifi at GM Place and uploaded photos on the fly to Flickr from my iPhone.
John’s got a great caption on this, check it out
Photo credit:
John Bollwitt on Flickr
Mitchell is such an outstanding guy
Photo credit:
John Bollwitt on Flickr
You can view more in John’s Flickr set or on my tag: canuckssuperskills.
Side note: I was fully prepared to let John purchase a women’s jersey for me today (for my upcoming birthday) but we walked away empty-handed. Here’s what’s wrong with the “selection” at Authentix: 1) NHL jerseys shouldn’t sparkle 2) NHL jerseys are not pink 3) Please supply the “skate” jersey in women’s sizes 4) Please supply women’s sizes that actually fit women with boobs. Thanks.
Okay so it’s not really an IQ test, it’s more like trivia… and I LIVE for trivia. The CBC has had two editions of “Test the Nation” thus far and they’ve been pretty successful. I’ve played along from home and online and learned a bit about myself each time. This installment will be, “Test the Nation: Trivia”, focusing on the 21st Century World.
In early December my fellow Metroblogging author Ryan announced that he’d be going to Toronto for the next installment of Test the Nation. Very cool, I knew he’d do bloggers proud. This morning through the magic of Twitter I also found out that local blogger and radio personality, Buzz is also on the bloggers team.
Well in my inbox this morning was a lovely note from someone at the CBC asking me to apply, which I did, and now I’ve been accepted and will be flown to Toronto in a few weeks. I’m going to Toronto for a weekend to play a big huge nationally televised trivia game on a team with other bloggers Awesome.
The show will be LIVE on January 20, 2008. The teams set to compete in studio are Bloggers vs Flight Crew vs Backpackers vs Cab Drivers vs Celebrity Lookalikes vs Chefs. I know they’re secretly bringing me in as a celebrity lookalike… jk.
The only REALLY bad thing about this is that it’s the same day as the Skate for a Cure that I’ve been raising funds for and we also have a Vancouver Blogger team. I’m wondering if I can transfer my account to John so he can be the skater? I don’t regret raising money for childhood cancer research, not one bit – but missing out on skating at GM Place is pretty heartbreaking. Who knows, they will probably do the fundraiser again next year so I’ll be sure to try again.
At any rate, wish us luck and also leave me a comment if you’re another blogger who will be on the team. I’ll of course be blogging the journey across the country and as much as I can about the experience.
To prepare, I encourage my teammates to try out the “Mental Gym” which has question in the same category that we’ll be given. So far I’ll only share my “Mental Gym Test #4” results that were 90%… as for the others… I need a little more work.
Update: There’s a Facebook Group that has some neat photos up of the set and what the actual broadcast will look like.
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