Won Ton

wonton soup

Ground Pork

Green onion

Ginger

SoySauce

Wonton Wrappers

Chicken Stock (Pork preferred)

Broccoli

Bok Choy

Carrots

Take the top three ingredients and mix. Take wonton wrapper and wet edges, put a little meatball of pork inside, fold the wrapper. boil for 5 minutes- try one first to make sure.

In a different pot take broth and boil- add broccoli and carrots and toss in cooked wonton at the last minute.

2o minutes from no wonton to wonton.

early season skiing: Smithers, release the hounds.

Just finished up a great few days in Smithers visiting my good friend Katie, working some and of course getting in some early season turns...

We toured up onto a shoulder of Hudson Bay Mountain and had decent skiing and turns on the descent. One run was all we had in us with the arctic low parked right over us and really cold prevailing winds shoving it all in our faces.
Katie getting some tele-turns down the south slopes of Hudson Bay Mountain.
Prince George airoporto
Last week, Marc Andre and Drew and I teamed up for a too early attempt to go skiing, it was actually not to bad as we hiked into a beautiful spot to get a few early season turns.

yalda, dragons and more

What do you think of when snow hits you in the head? nothing..

In persian folklore, Yalda was the ceremonial first day of winter, a time to celebrate and rejoice over a good summer and hopefully a bountiful harvest. Wine, great feasts and dancing was enjoyed by all with cellars full of jams, roots and meat. In very early Japan, winter was commonly feared. Artwork from this time depicts glaciers as dragons, snaking down vast peaks and hiding man eating holes and other terrors of the mind- You were not to be seen or heard again if you dared to enter the mountains. No matter how you look at it, when the tilt of the earth favours skiers and the sunlight grazes the northern hemisphere at that magical oblique angle something good is about to happen and what better way to take advantage of it then by strapping some waxed boards to your feet and shredding the poop out of something?

Today I am on a plane bound to northern BC thinking about Yalda and Dragons. Next week I am back though and have about 10 days to try and squeeze in a couple of ski days. The forecast calls for snow and mild temperatures, the perfect combination for a good early season..

So friends, I suggest kicking back and dreaming about winter nights, powder skiing adventures and endless white with a glass of your favourite beverage because it is close at hand.

Early season 2010...