Rain, rain go away!

We're beginning to get aquainted with the Fernie weather pattern unique to this area. It dumps a shed-load of fluffy white powder snow and then proceeds to rain for a good few hours afterwards, turning it all to slush... bummer!

However, all is not lost. Rain in the town inevitably means snow on the mountain and this will be our mantra for the coming months. We heard reports from those who had ventured further afield that it was knee deep in places on the hill and this is good news indeed. Whilst we won't be waxing our boards just yet, there are some intrepid locals who can be seen loading up their trucks with shovels and snowboards, looking to get some backcountry action.

We decided to head out for another BLW today (Bloody Long Walk) and toddled over to the boys house for some fortifying pancakes with banana, honey and peanut butter (sounds minging, but it's well yummy!).

The walk was great fun and skirted around the Fernie golf course. Apparently, if there's enough snow they turn it into a skidoo park! How much fun is that going to be!??? Many snowballs were thrown, including a monster one from Jules that soaked Jethro's left trouserleg. (It landed in a puddle right next to where he was innocently taking a photograph. Cue much laughter from us unsympathetic types).

We finished up in Hang Loose Juice for some smoothies, washed down with some rather fabulous home-made oatmeal and raisin cookies. The lady behind the counter was fantastic and made Jethro a special Vitamin C smoothie when she heard that he was feeling a litte under the weather (he's got the sniffles). We are going to go back and sample some of her home-made lasagne for $5, with garlic toast. If it's anything like her cookies, she won't be able to get rid of us for the next 6 months...

Tonight is curry night. We're going to head down to the Curry Bowl with carpenter Mike and possibly some others. I am looking forward to drinking some decent indian lager and feeling the warmth of a tikka massala coursing through my veins.

Look at those lovely snow-filled clouds... hopefully it'll dump again tonight.

Jules, Mark, me and Jethro (pre-trouserleg incident)

It might look barren and cold, but it's actually not too bad.

The golf course is behind us, with a great view of the Fernie mountains

Jethro teeing off at the ninth hole... where's the ball?!!!