About Me

My photo
Whistler, BC, Canada
Cliché is defined as "a trite, or stereotyped expression" they have become thus because they never fail. Belief is the key to success... born in waterloo, i moved to the small village of Eden Mills just outside of guelph for the beggining of the 21st century. i started cross country skiing roughly at the age of 2 or 3 and ever since it has been part of my life one way or another. at the age of 7 i entered my first competition and at that time it was always just for the fun. at the age of 10 imoved to france for a year with my sister where we both took part in school and completed my first year without any skiing, which it turns out might have cost me a bit of time when i decided to get more serious into it when i came back, because i was at the back of the pack in every race when i had come back from france. i was however, tenatious in the years after that big and life changing experience. i kept to it, and slowly, but steadly climbed up the field of skiers, which brings me to where i am now.

July 5, 2009

THE HAIG...

I am sitting in the rocky mountain ski lodge in Canmore, getting ready for my first in the country glacier camp. It will be my second time skiing on a glacier, however it will also be drastically different from what I had experienced last year. 
recap.
In the summer of 2008, I decided to travel in Europe after finishing high school. I took this opportunity to join my ski team in Ramsau Austria. This was one of the big highlights of last year.
But I heard often from people to not take it for granted. Cable car rides up to the glacier for two skis a day, breakfast, lunch and dinner prepared for you. A nice warm bed in a hotel 200m from the cable car. This was the life.
Well now I know that I was extremely lucky to have that as my first glacier experience. Because as I said I am waiting in Canmore. We were supposed to run up today to the glacier, but the weather was no help as the helicopter could not fly due to the rain and heavy cloud cover. So now our camp has be pushed back to tomorrow WEATHER PERMITTING!!!!!!
I just seems a little ridiculous having to base everything off of weather when you are set to head up. Anyways, I am sure I feel this way because my first experience was so incredible. So I'll just chill and see what happens, but now I don't think we will be skiing tomorrow assuming we make it up tomorrow which is a huge bummer. Oh well. Life goes on. I will add a little good thing that has happened because of this. I felt pretty tired after our big week blocks and even with this easy week i didn't feel rested, mostly because I haven't been sleeping well these last couple of nights, so this gives me one more day to rest up before going full tilt on the glacier so I can really take advantage of the altitude and snow. Skiing in the summer for a week is worth more than a month of rollerskiing. So I am absolutely pumped to get up there and feeling good!
All that said, I am super exited to go skiing, hoping the weather gets nice, which it looks like sun is on the way, just too late for today. i am sure my next update will be super positive about the camp. 
C
Posted by at

2 comments:

  1. Ted CheskeyJuly 6, 2009 at 8:47 PM

    hey Camille,
    J'espere que le temps va vous permettre de monter demain. Il faut toujours respecter. 1 ou 2 jours de moins est mieux qu'un accident de helicopter!!

    Bisou,

    Ted

    ReplyDelete
  2. Ted CheskeyJuly 6, 2009 at 8:49 PM

    Hey Camille,
    J'espere que vous allez monter demain Poutant il faut toujours respecter le temps. 1 ou 2 jours de moins sur le glacier est mieux qu'un accident de heliocopter:)

    Amuses toi et bonne entrainement!

    Ted

    ReplyDelete

Subscribe to: Post Comments (Atom)