Cindy Devine Ball Exercise

Corrections from Britta and Christof Wieser

Some time ago I posted a blog about Britta and Christof Weiser, two heliskiers we met in New Zealand. Britta sent me this letter correcting a few points regarding their Heliski carear:

Hopefully we will run into them again next New Zealand winter; They are very nice people!


Hi everybody,
Thank you Mick - it was very nice to read the blog about ourselves:
"Christof and Britta Wieser: Legendary Heliskiers".
All the same, I would like to put three details right, because we do not
want to offend anybody.
1.) I am almost sure, that there are older "active" heliskiers around -
especially during the "Senior-weeks" at CMH. Therefore it seems
important to me to point out, that Christof's record reads as follows: "
Christof Wieser (Austria), born 19 September 1928 Heliskiis regularly
every year". The "REGULARLY" ment that GWR was asking for 50 (!) days of
heliskiing PER YEAR which is so very special about Christof.
2.) We have never been to TYAX, instead those 3 million feet we skied
with CMH, Canadian Mountain Holidays.
3.) Himalaya was with HHS former Himachal Helicopter Skiing, were we
achieved 2 million verts.
An other million feet we collected trying out different places, like
KAUKASUS (whilst it was still UDSSR), GREENLAND as well as different
places in CANADA.
We would very much appreciate if Mick could change these details in the
blog!!
Our greetings to Mike and Kevin and of course yourself - perhaps we are
going to run into each other at some other
heliskiing location, who knows?
Kindest regards,
Britta + Christof from Austria

Early season skiing in Rossland

Early snow=Early action at Rossland Secondary

Early Snow in Rossland

It started snowing last night and it has not stopped since. I guess we have had 20-25 cm so far. Could be a good omen for the season.

Inspiration by Peter Lees

My Friend Peter Lees just sent me this photo of himself skiing at Mt. Buller this season. Strong technique! I got to know Peter through the Masters Training Program at Mt. Buller, when he was in the "casual cruiser" group. His skiing has come a long way since then. This photo looks like it is out of the CSIA manual! Thanks for sporting the Canadian Ski Quest logo wear Peter, you are making us proud.

Mark

Ski Fit 2 with Cindy Devine

This is another great season preparation exercise demonstrated by Physiotherapist and professional trainer Cindy Devine. It works the quads and more importantly the core muscles.

Confidence Ride

On Sunday I went for my first real bike ride since my injury, it was so good for me. I went with my friend Pat Hinds. Pat ran, I rode! We were quite evenly matched. Pat is a 100 miler guy, seriously he races in 100 mile running races, solo. So yes we were evenly matched. Pat was faster than me up the hills but I caught up on the flats and of course left him behind on the decent. We went across the border out of Northport, new territory for both of us. We climbed for about 2.5 hours and were rewarded with thrilling decent into the valley. The scenery shot here was taken two thirds of the way up and we decended all the way to the river you can see (the Columbia).

For me this ride was just what I needed, I finally feel like I am getting my body back. That I am becoming able bodied.

Getting Ski Fit with Cindy Devine

I have been participating in an intensive fitness program to get my knee back into skiing shape for this winter. I am taking this program through worksafe with Cindy Devine. Cindy is very fit, a good inspiration for me. I have taken a few video clips of her doing the exercises she is putting me through. Cindy suggested she take the video of me, to which I suggested "nobody really wants to see me doing this".

I am doing three sets of 20 of this exercise. Cindy can do 60 at a time.