Grouse Mountain opening

I haven't seen something like that. Grouse Mountain opened today. You could ski for free. You read correct: YOU COULD SKI FOR FREE, EVERYBODY. It was just amazing. Normally the ticket is 42$ (30€). Grouse Mountain is just 15km away from Campus so we caught the bus, had to use the sea bus and after one and a half hours we reached the base station of the gondola. It was crowded, well, einem geschenkten Gaul schaut man nicht ins Maul. (that is german, translation: Don't look a gift horse in the mouth.)

me early in the morning on the way to the bus

my eyes didn't work proper

next to watergate where I had to change the transportation system: from bus to vessel

the harbor

and that was my aim, the peaks

vessel

view out of the vessel

finally I arrived at the base station vessel, there was a HUGE line up, well, it was for free

made in switzerland

we reached the top, awesome view down to Vancouver. just above the right gondola tower is the ubc campus

get ready for the first ride of the season

on the slope

just amazing, skiing above the city

the line up was quite big, we had to wait between 15 and 30 minutes

view down to vancouver

get a movie of riding at Grouse Mountain ...

Grouse-Mountain-free-Skiing.avi (4.4 mb)

kerstin in the chair lift

the whole city

kerstin an me on the slope

due to the fact that it was really busy we went to the restaurant, had some food and watched the sunset for two hours, it was just great

kerstin having pizza

the gondola was still packed with people

campus of ubc

now the sunset started

far away you can see vancouver island

reading newspaper in the light of the sunset

more amazing sunset pictures and night skiing >