Decisions, decisions

Even though we had all the time and determination in the world, we knew that it would only be possible to fit in one or two of the things we were dying to try...We still have 15 more weekends in Whistler to cross things off our list, but seem to be treating each experience as if we might not wake up tomorrow. Gruesome or ingenious?

Only because we knew that the list was long and our brains were a bit sun baked, we chose to take the decision making outside and ended up at this excellent early morning breakfast place. Hellooo Pony Espresso...Any place that has caffeine in the title is going to be a winner as far as I am concerned.

The place was packed, but I have never been happier waiting for my breakfast. The restaurant bakes their own bread and bagels, there is ample hot sauce for your eggs on every table and your plate is heaping with local potatoes.....

After throwing every brochure and map on the table........

ZIPTREK! Based on actually having made a decision, we decided to hike for a while to make sure all our food was well digested before we sailed over the top of anyone or anything. I did not want to yak on any of the indigenous population....

Best find on the trek, the local train and bus station. I don't know what it is I love so much about old treks and tracks..

I had this brilliant idea that would involve knitting while flying in a harness at up to 80km an hour and trying to photograph it. Then I realized I only had two arms, so I decided to bring some knitting and worry about photos later.......Then I read the liability waiver that I had to sign and that I wanted to live. Reluctantly, I left the knitting behind.

John takes the waiver signing very seriously.

It was a three hour tour that involved some decent hiking as well as the zipping and was an amazing eco tour. Each step of the way, I realized that we were doing something that was not leaving a human footprint. BC is fortunate to have so much of the world's rain forest, but I didn't realize that we actually hold 25% of the world's deciduous rain forest. (which is much more rare). The ratio of tropical rain forest to deciduous is 36-1... Our entire trek took place on Blackcombe Mountain.

Here are the some pictures without my going on and on and on...

Meet your new best friend, the harness.


This would be the "trekking" part.

This is the "zipping"

The average speed on 3 of the 4 legs of this are roughly at 50km. The longest run was at about 80km. The last run (which is a bit shorter) we were able to do upside down and backwards...without hands....made me wish I had tried to smuggle my knitting in my pants!

This was something that I've wanted to do for a while and I love crossing it off the list of things to do. However, now I think I'm going to find bumbling around on my two legs at a much slower pace rather dull and inconvenient. No wait, I wasn't able to knit airborne, so back on the ground IS a good thing.

Back to the room for some great BC wine and some mad crochet...I have an idea.......