W h i s t l e r - B l a c k c o m b   M o u n t a i n s

British Columbia, Canada - March 2000

these are pictures from my trip to Whistler ski resort with the UofM ski club...Whistler is the tallest ski resort in north america, almost 6,000 feet vertical...but thats candian feet...so whats that, like 300 feet american?....yeah so the trip was cool even tho the weather was wet, overcast and misty...they had tons of snow and some of the most amazing scenery i have seen while skiing...

hmm...i dont remember seeing that much blue in the sky...this is blackcomb mountain on our way to "7th Heaven"...i think...

i thought i told those people to duck...canadians are so rude...

see that big turk bar tom is eating?....tom made that...and if you think thats funny, make sure you order toms book entitled 101 'You see that _______?...I made that' Jokes

thank god for maids...

charlie and the gang taking a break from the skiing as we descended down the valley below the glacier...

see those little spots in the snow?....im not sure if tom made them, but those are skiers...im pretty sure charlie made a yellow spot somewhere in the snow but its not visible in this picture...

sabina, jon, and alison standing in front of blackcomb mountain...we didnt let jon go to the bathroom for the entire trip...

me wearing a headband from the 1980's....actually those are my goggles....why didnt someone tell me i looked like a dumbass...

me relaxing in the garbage pit...i mean condo...

this is on the way up to the glacier where you have to do a little hiking to get to the run...

if i had pointed the camera more down you could see the "blowhole" (a chute down the glacier) but instead all you see is white sky...i didnt want to spoil it for you...

sabina showing off for the camera...she skis with her arms out like that too tho...she clotheslined like 10 people per run...

chris, aka "the mogul destroyer", smiles as he sees the ungroomed, mogul infested runs of blackcomb mountain...

i think charlie thought my camera was food and tried to eat it before he took this picture and that caused the lens to fog up or something so the picture came out all blurry...word of advice: if you have charlie take a picture for you, make sure he is well fed first...but this is actually a picture of a cliff i accidentally tumbled head first over...you can see my ski stuck half way up the cliff...looks like i could just reach up and grab it, but not so, i had to climb up that tree next to me to get at it...

some run...

this picture is a little blurry again, but thats actually brad pitt walking with his skis in the village...after i took this picture he punched me out and then broke my camera...i swear, these hollywood actors are getting a bit full of themselves...i mean, i kicked him first....but still...he didnt need to break my camera...ok, he didnt break my camera, i just dropped it...why are you still reading this?...its a picture of strangers walking in the village...

see how happy i am to be home?...f school...i dont know how i got sun tan, i never saw the sun once the entire trip...

but seriously, some people have accused me of not smiling enough in pictures...but if you zoom in on the above picture and do some digital enhancement you can see that i am clearly smiling...

wasting film...this is my (old) room...

still wasting film, here is a picture of my bike...

p o s t c a r d s
prepare yourself, what follows are some postcards which make my pictures look like utter crap...i swear tho, if i had a little more sunlight to work with, my pictures would have turned out just like these...i used to think that people ruined pictures and i would just take pictures of the scenery...then id be looking thru my photos like "hmm...theres a mountain...ok, theres a stream...another mountain...a tree..." and the only pictures that were really interesting were the ones with people in them...and my dad once told me, "if all you want is some nice pictures of scenery, just buy postcards...they will be better than anything you can take yourself"...so when you take pictures yourself, make sure you get some people in there, even if they are total strangers...you can still make fun of the way they dress or something...otherwise, you may as well just buy some postcards...you may think youre a great photographer but youre not...my little brother took better pictures with his fisher price camera when he was 4yrs old than you do...

Postcard: a look at the "symphony bowl" from the top of whistler mountain...and some guy who thinks canary yellow is still in style...i mean come on, that is sooo last season!...just joking...

Postcard: looking down the hortsman glacier on blackcomb mountain...and a guy that leans back on his skis more than i do...i mean come on, leaning back on your skis is sooo i dont know what!...just joking...

Postcard: a look at blackcomb mountain's "7th heaven" from whistler mountain...and some people on the chairlift asking each other where they are from...i mean come on, asking someone where they are from is sooo...sooo...uh...where you from anyways?...

Postcard: some scenery from atop whistler....and some people taking the green run down the mountain cos they are little chicken shits...i mean green runs are sooo booring...just joking, thats the same way i went down...you think im crazy?...look at all the cliffs on these damn mountains...

Postcard:  blackcomb mountain...hmm...no people...how boring...