Activities and Sports Archives

LA CHAMPAGNY WAS A CHALLENGE

November 4, 2015 No Comments

To ski, or not to ski. That is the question.

I got an invitation from good family friends to join them on their ski trip in France back in April 2014.

I am a boarder. Snowboarding is hands down my most favourite sport. Back in the days when I was finishing my high school in Vancouver, I would go up to Cypress mountain every other week or so and board until the mountain closed. After leaving Canada in 2004, I never got the chance to go snowboarding, but I every single day I daydreamed of riding fresh powder.

Then the invitation came. Saiphin and Alex are my very good friends despite the almost-20-year age difference. They and their friends take their children on a road trip to France every year to ski, and that year they planned to go to La Champagny or Champagny En Vanoise.

MOUNTAIN & LAND

THE WORLD AT YOUR FEET

October 31, 2015 2 Comments

Certain things are difficult to explain in words. The sensation you get when you are diving through fresh powder, racing down a steep mountain is one of them.

Skiing/Snowboarding is a sport to many people. To some, it is so much more. There is something about being up there in the mountains. You can take the ski lift up to the same peak every morning and you will still be in awe seeing what surrounds you.

MOUNTAIN & LAND

GLACIAR HIKING ON THE “SÓLHEIMAJÖKULL”

October 7, 2015 No Comments

WELCOME TO LAND OF ICE!

Glacier hiking is another activity one must do when visiting Iceland and I did mine on the “Sólheimajökull” glacier tongue, which is an outlet from Iceland’s 4th largest glacier, the”Mýrdalsjökull” (I later made the right guess that the Icelandic word for glacier is “jökull”).

The not-so-pleasant journey there alone, to the very south of Iceland, took almost 3 hours due to the weather condition and all we could see outside our coach window was the colour white. However, the sky cleared up as we were approaching the hiking site. As soon as we arrived, everyone suddenly perked up and dashed off the coach to see the change of view (which we could actually see) as well as to get some very fresh, clean air.