sweet lines

So I decided to go for a much needed mini-trek today. I wanted to find a passage down to this part of the oceanfront where there aren't any houses and you can't really see it from anywhere else cuz it's through a forest and down a bank. So I took my dog and we made it pretty easily through the ravine, and after the last house, we descended to the beach. Very nice and there were some good waves too. Probably the first time he's played fetch in the ocean, it was pretty funny to see him get rocked by the waves. We start heading back and I see a path so we follow it up and lo and behold..... there's a fucking zip line. A ZIP LINE. I was pretty stoked, but it looked sketchy. I tested it out by riding it a few meters and where it stops, you come right up next to a huge tree. And that was only a few meter run, the whole line was probably about 80-100m long. NUTS! I followed the path up to the top, but there was someone's house right there, so I had to sneak through the woods. Probably enver get to use it, but I thought it was still pretty cool.

I've been engrossed with ski hill stats lately. Search for Chamonix in France. HUGE fucking ski hill. Unreal. Tons of advanced runs too. Anyways, I found out that Kicking Horse is the highest ski resort (summit) in BC, and depending on how you look at it, shares the 2nd biggest vertical drop in North America with Jackson Hole (KH is actually 8ft less), with Whistler taking the top spot. It was a lot harder to find stats on terrain (acres) though, but Kicking Horse isn't as competetive when it comes to acreage.