Jacqui headed back to LA yesterday. She enjoyed her couple of days in Fernie, especially as she has never seen so much snow in one place. She wasn’t interested in coming up the hill to ski or snowboard, but decided that we should do some cross-country skiing instead – we booked a day trip out to Island Lake.

Got to their car park at 9am, to be picked up by a snow cat for the 30min trip to the lodge. Once there we were kitted out with boots & skis and taken on a 90min trip around the lake, on a nice, easy, tracked, cross-country trail. Since neither of us can ski, and we’d each only attempted cross-country once before, we both fell over a couple of times, usually when there was a bend after a downhill. Jacqui ended up with a pretty impressive bruise on her arse!

Once the exercise was over, we were treated to a gourmet lunch in the lodge, followed by another snow cat journey to complete the day.

Since it was also the last day of our course, we all headed out to dinner with our instructors, Anouk and Shaun, and with all the ski instructors too. After that it was off to the Northern to see The Finagli Brothers (Lewi & Dicko) play for an hour or two, which was a great laugh!

Island Lake Photos

Fernie Photos