Sunday, July 11, 2010


REON'S WORK...
So as you know Reon works as a lifty on Blackcomb mountain and he took the camera up one day to get some shots. There is no mountain biking on blackcomb side only Whistler side but up the top there is a snowboarding/ski park that is open until end of August. They get so much snow over winter up the top that it doesn't melt in summer so they make a park out of it and all the rich kids go into a programme called the 'camp of champions' which is kind of like a week long holiday programme where they have coaches and ski for a solid week. There are three parks up there but only one is open to the public and the other two is only for the 'camp of champions'. Blackcomb is also more of the sight seeing side so Reon loads tourists and skiers.
Anyways here are the photos!
Enjoy! xo

He starts at 7am so this shot was taken when he got to work as the sun is peaking over the hill. This is the chair that everyone catches up.

We see bears ALL the time! This one was right under the chair lift.

A mama and some cute little cubs!

A shot from the top.

Gorgeous! Even though there is snow it still gets really warm up here.

This is one of the parks up the top. Only good riders are aloud up as the parks mainly consist of big jumps, rails and boxes.

5 comments:

wayne.roxy said...

so does reon get to ride those big jumps??is he good enough??:)haha
so will we be seeing u tomorow then??

Andrea said...

haha yea it's all in a days work for him :-) So looking forward to seeing you guys! Think we will be in Kamloops tomorrow night and then Kelowna Tuesday?? Maybe... you never quite know :)

Edna said...

How close do you get to the bears? Hopefully they know you love them. We saw a lot of bears in Alaska, but we had the wall of a bus between us.
Love Aunt Edna

Connor & Leaine Felce said...

It certainly looks like you guys are having fun!!!!! Your photos are just brillant Andrea - you should do it professionaly!!!! Keep having fun......

Andrea said...

Thanks Leaine - enjoy your blog as well :-)

Edna, sometimes you get really close to them when your mountain biking but they don't take much notice of you. We are planning on going to Alaska in September and really hoping to see some grizzlies!