I'm in Alberta to do some snowboarding with the family. I've never been here before, apart from a couple of brief layovers in Calgary airport, and so far I think it can largely be summed up as "frigid". The snow is good, even though it's relatively late in the season. We rented a three-level chalet on the mountain above Banff. There are deer wandering randomly around town. The service in restaurants is lax because it's near season's end and the casual workers have all pissed off. It still seems like Kiwis and Aussies outnumber the locals. Dirty Aussies.
Alberta is famous for beef, but so far the beef tastes like anywhere else. Meat is meat, as far as I'm concerned, in the same way that beer is beer. I am not a discerning consumer. This province also has Krispy Kreme ("so good, you'll suck a dick!"*) and Chili's Restaurants. In consumer terms it seems more American than British Columbia, which is odd since as near as I can tell most of the state is pretty much an icy wasteland. Calgary was so bleak I thought about killing myself just to get out of it faster.
The Rockies, though, kick ass. The geography is spectacular. We've boarded Sunshine Village and Lake Louise, and we're heading over to Kicking Horse tomorrow. I have developed competent skills as a snowboarder despite not being particularly enamoured with the prospect of sliding downhill at high speed on a plank.
Tomorrow, however, more plank it will be.
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