Saturday, November 05, 2005

The rains have come.

This is the best time of year. There is only one catch though, it needs to be 5 degrees or less. That's the magic number. Then there's the snow everywhere, except for the city and non North Shore suburbs. People complain about the rain, why I don't know. Its the best part of the city. Makes it green, in many ways. Masks smells like the forementioned and clears out the smog of the smog machines. If you don't like it get back on the boat and go back to SARS land, balliganduland, or SARS TO 2.0 or wherever you are from. Like I fucking care. Just have fucking common sense about shit. Traffic and weather are the most mundane things you can talk about. Almost like your opinion of the 'influx' of people in Hongcouver area. Its fucking braindead simple.

But this is the only time. Get me right the only time you need a car. This time of year November or December or Jananuary hopefully not in February it starts till hopefully April, but probably March. The Winter time is the best time of year. Unfortunately in the ciy the snow only comes for a day if it does before the slush comes and makes it a fucking nightmare to ride a bike. Getting soaked by an express bus sloshing by ain't much fucking fun, let alone some fuckhead in an Excursion. I love it when it snows in town. Then you can head to the local hill and go for a ride. Gotta get out eary though, like when the snow is there. The weather is on the verge on the Pacific coast close to the 49th parallel, to being rain, mist, or snow. I like it when it gets to 10 below but then its clear. Makes it nice and crisp outside. Almost feels better than when its 3 and pissing rain, weird. If you can't figure it out, I'm talking about snow. That is the definition of Canada at least in the G7 countries. That we get snow, play hockey and are lumberjacks. Well that's the German one. Americans think we live in igloos, have dog sleds and know Jack in Toronto. Well of course. Its like a state. Well actually less population than at least California, probalby Texas. Illinois and New York just have a huge city and not much else. At least I think so. My geography of down south is pretty bad. But I don't care about them much, as long as I don't get shot when I'm in the 'Land of the free'. Only they are killing Allah Akbars for more oil, since LA has a nice brown fog festering a few thousand few above the ground.

This snow is here. Blackcomb is going to open up tommorrow or actaully in a few hours. That's nice. 60cm base already. Not much, but its early. Last year was just garbage. Christmas, summer, then April came and that saved it. Still need to get the early snow to build up the base. The better the base the more fun in the shorts and drinking time and sunscreen and shades in Spring riding time. I'm no fucking Mikalchuk or Crispin. I like the free riding. (The freeriders aka moochers are fucking annoying. That's nice you don't have any money like ever. Especially when I'm around. That's really fucking annoying especially when the fuckers make more money than you do. But they need to 'save' it to be more anally like a Yaletown fuck. So they have to have the cosumeristic bullshit that means you're 'better') Free riding is fun, especially if there's a few feet of fresh. Only shitty part about living beside the ocean is that it makes the temperature warm, so the snow is still wet. Not champagne powder of the Rockies. However Whistler is a little different. There's quite some vertical you need to traverse up. Hotbox the gondola, Solar Coaster and then up to 7th heaven. Or like down to that Harmony I think it is with the other mess hall there, not the Rendevous. Then the T-bar to the peak. 7th heaven is the shite. Alpine to trees. I don't really know the mountain too good though. Just its full of shitloads of people. And rule number 9 means technically I'm not on the mountain.

The unforunate thing about that place is you need to get there. That requires albeit an unfortunate polluting invention. Namely to say the car. But that is what cars are made for, that road. Its the most fun road to drive, if people know how to drive. That's a little tough. Well if there's a snowstorm then it can take 4 or 5 hours instead of 80 minutes or so from the ferry terminal. Or even worse its closed since of a fucking head on and your're fucked for that day trip. 2 111 signs on that road. First one is just past the turnoff from the Lions gate at Taylor Way on the upper levels before the Sea to Sky. The other is after Function Juntion, probably around the bend after the tracks, where if you need to wait you can smell the feces of millionaires and tourists. I can't remember exactly where it is but its still 111 to Vancouver though. The road is so much fun. Then you get the fucking idiots on their road bicycles in the summer. That's just royally insane. Royally insane. Hopefully the suggested cost of $600 million to make the road better will give a bit of a shoulder for those fucking idiots. At least in the winter they won't be there. But the road is busier, since its that time of year. The first passing lane is really annoying. Gotta nig it up and then get stuck behind some idiot in the left lane. They have the signs everywhere, slower traffic keep right. You have get a running start to the hills, since that's where most of the passing lanes are. But once you get to Furry Creek then it gets a bit better. Not on the cliffside so there is a bit more room for the road. Just need s to watch out for a few things. A bridge washed out, well that was more so in the 80's. I wonder how many that they replaced got washed out again. Proably must be a few, its the fucking government behind it anyways.

The road is actually one of the few things that makes driving fun. Its a nice road to go down. Just the drivers are insane on it. I'm probably one of the worser drivers by most poeples standard on it. But people like me make the road work. Its just the fucking centipede action that really makes it frustrating. That's why you exactly need to nig it up the hills to get to the front of the leader of the millipede. The one person that slows it down for the length behind. Need to get up front, its weird that road is alot like the mountain. Get out of my way, cause I'm rocking by. Like being on the runs and people fly by, not just like la de da. And there are of lots of turns on the road too, which makes being awake sorta important. Otherwise you'll get in a head on and probably die. The road is like a line of snakes. Need to snake you're way up sorta like in a mosh pit. Just need to pass whenever you can. Pretty well whenever there's the chance. The dashed yellow passing lanes are fucking short, need to have sense of what you're car can do or whatever you're driving can. Need to gear down and give it. That road is meant for a stick and some nice car with 400 horsepower. That would be fun. But the drivers are so stupid there. Its weird since Whistler ain't Hongcouver at all, in majority of white ways. It is a nice drive, for sure to check out the scenery. But after a while that sorta gets boring too. Especially if you go up there a few times a year for many years, its sorta instinct as to the way the road goes. The part up to Squamish minus the Britannia mine there is nice since its almost impossible to have speed traps. Afterwards, its sorta a nightmare, then I only go around 110 clicks. I think the limits around 80 or 90. I don't like the double lanes both way wide parts. It goes on too long. Plus I'm like not obeying rule # 9. So that's a real reason to sorta be a lemming, in a no lemming like way. Not going the limit but around 3000 rpm in 5th gear of the vehicle I get to use most of the time. Nice fringe benefit. I rarely take advantage of it though, well at least year that's for sure.

But that's the only time a car is needed in an urban environment of Vancouver. Well I guess you could go locally to Grouse and take the bus, seaBus, Skytrain and bus for a little fun. But Cypress has the only mountain with long runs and some diversity. The other 2 are too short runs. The cut doesn't count since its too busy. Eventhough I haven't been to either Seymour or Grouse since like the late 80s I bet not much changed. It can't which is the sad part. Seymour is in a park, so that's like a contradiction right there. Then Grouse has things called cliffs everywhere. Just ask that dead american that was on the news there some time ago. Plus the vertical isn't there in the snow region. (just labelled mentally deranged... The dream is my reality)

But going up for the day makes for a long day to Whistler and back from East Vancouver. Its almost as long as when I was a little shit going from Surrey to Baker. Fuck I haven't been any other mountains except WB and Cypress since highschool. That's fucked up. No actually a few, Manning park and whatever that place is called up the logging road past the Hope slipe. But I went to all the local ones including Hemlock, which didn't even open up last year. Turn at the Sasquatch Inn, a beer store there too I think and a weird gas station/Liqour store combo around there somewhere on the Lougheed, go past the jail and turn left or go right to see the Salmon at Weaver Creek or the backside of Harrison lake to camp. Plus Silver Star. I want to go on an interior tour. That sounds like fun. Especially if the driving is really slow. As long as the mountain is open and there's fresh then fuckin' eh. Need the powder. Exactly that point makes the Whistler day a long day. I'm not a morning person by any means. But you ned to get there early. The earlier the better. Plus having a beer at 6am just after you woke up is so Canadian eh. Late afternoon is good too, the middle of the day is a nightmare though. Generally if its fresh 7th heaven isn't even open anyways since they are still blasting away. But its nice to be on it before it gets tracked out. Try to get there for 8:30 so you leave just before 7 you should be alright depending on the factors of what is going on with the road. Being on the gondola having the 3rd doobie of the day makes it nice.

Just can't drink too much. That's about the only time you realize how much booze fucks you up. You need coordination, this isn't driving while drinking booze, smoking a joint, and getting sucked off. It actually requires attention. And if you can't react it ain't much fun. I found that out the hard way slamming my knee into a tree stump after sliding on some ice since I couldn't get an edge. After a 6 pack its too much. Need to eat and stuff and not like just pound beer and inhale like Billy.

The best part about getting a pass is the picture they take. I love it, sorta like a driver's license. A passport is a little more important so you proably should be like Ned Flanders, but I guess not. As long as it looks like you eh. But the picture needs to be taken. I always blast one before to get really 'chinese eyed' eh. Its nice, since then you look like that too when they see you. Actually most of the time you look better than the picture. That's almost a compliment, or actually a really sad commentary on your existence of being a fucking alcoholic drug addict. But fuck whatever. As if I care. Well evidently not, so why are you judging me. Why, I don't judge your Ned Flanderness of the suburbian 'heaven' or whatever its called. Well I do, but you just can't relate too fucking much of any thought of being. Sure you can talk about whatever but its what you do that matters, not the shit that comes from the voice hole since you're an asshole. So am I, wanna bite mine. Nein danke, go to hell you cock sucking faggot if you say yes.

Last year was the worst ever
Best in the last decade was boarding on July on skychair on Cypress sometime in the 90s
Wishful thinking.
Sure hope not.
Global warming is coming, so the snow is going to the heavens and not coming back.

I can't wait to go boarding before the snow don't come no more.

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