So the Winter Nuclear and Particle Physics Conference happened from last Friday evening up to noon today. The conference is taking place in Banff, in the province of the rich and sometimes famous. I went with Keith one of the other students at UVic. We got a lucky break of getting to give our talks right on Friday evening, so the rest of the conference was very enjoyable. It was also very cool that this year (for the first time) the conference is being organized by the my undergrad university (and a few other universities from back east, so I got to meet some of my old profs and some of the new students from back home.
Anyway today we decided to take off early (and skip the concluding remarks) such that we could check out one of the ski resorts. We decided to go to Sunshine where I skied again for the first time in like 15 years. With some help from Keith, the other UVic grad that came to the conference I actually was relatively comfortable exploring all the greens and blues at sunshine.
On Monday we spent the entire day at Lake Louise, a much better ski resort (though the regulars tell me that it usually does not get as good a snowfall as this year). Very nice skiing, and Keith actually took me down a black diamond at some point. That and we did this awesome blue going though the woods, and to my peril, around some boulders. Felt very good though, and lots of powder.
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