New things in the life of Ace

Three new things this week have made things quite cool:

1: A new snowboard- a Venue Onyx 162. Mmmmmmm, all mountain freestyle loveliness! Nice and solid, but soft and flexy enough to be able to have a bit of fun on, and less like riding a tanker than the old 168 wide board! All for roughly the same in Canadian dollars as pounds (ie, roughly half UK price!)
2: New snowboard trousers - Burton Shift Cargo pants. Mmmmmmmm, nice fitting baggy, non-holy goodness. I've finally, after about 5 years got a pair of snowboard trousers that I can take a decent sized stride in without ripping the crotch! And they look dope as well!
3: And most importantly , new snow. After the break from snowboarding over the weekend, I awoke to 35cm of new snow on Monday! This meant leaving my new shiny board at home, but I think my powder board enjoyed the outing! There must have been a metre accumulated in places! Cue lots of fun and sinking in snow!

The rest of the week has been cool as well. Roughly 4 inches or so each night to top things up and lots of fun and jumping around on my new board!Even had a couple of runs through the park, and haven't killed myself as yet, so it's all good!

Plus another new thing, is the fact that I actually know some people now! Boarding with friends on Monday, hot tub with more people on Tuesday, partying on our first night out yet(I know that's hard to believe that 1.5 weeks in and we've only been out once!) with lots of people, and hot tub again tonight. Funny that - as soon as a hot tub is mentioned you can find so many friends!

One thing in addition to this that I'd ask for: A break in the cloud. This place is beginning to get slightly claustrophobic. I know there's mountains up there, but I haven't yet seen them cos there's always cloud in the valley. I know clouds mean snow (or in todays case, light rain) but I could do with a view. I don't think we'll be seeing the sun soon though, so better get used to it!