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When I was a kid I used to ride my bike all the time. I rode it to school, I rode it to work, I rode it for fun. However in recent years I stopped riding it. When I started buying transit passes it just seemed easier to take buses and trains since my workplace […]

I try to stay away from energy drinks as I can’t imagine them to be very good for your system, but then sometimes you just need an extra boost. There are quite a few energy drinks on the market and while they don’t taste as good as Coke or Pepsi, they are not too bad […]

About a month ago I went to Canada Olympic Park(C.O.P.) here in Calgary to do some snowboarding. Canada Olympic Park is where the Bobsled, Luge, and Ski-Jumping competitions were held during the 1988 Winter Olympics.
Here’s a picture of one of the Ski-Jumping Platforms:

Canada Olympic Park is a great ski hill for the following reasons:

1. Safe […]

Last week I went snowboarding at Lake Louise. Lake Louise opened up this year around November 9th but when I went last week on the 17th, they only had one run open. It’s still quite early in the season and you’ll see from the video below that there wasn’t much snow, especially below the chairlift. […]

This past weekend I went snowboarding at Lake Louise in Alberta, Canada. I’ve been to Louise many times and so I know the place fairly well. I guess it’s still early in the season and so they only had one run and the Glacier Express chair lift in operation which only goes about 2/3rd’s up […]