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January 01, 2008
A New Year, More Sandwiches and a Polar Bear
2008 is upon us and for a pre-New Year celebration the McLeans hit Red Mountain for a day of skiing, rocks, twigs and of course gas station sandwiches. Here are a couple shots of us famished skiers devouring or lunch snack up at the Paradise Lodge.
Dad took the Reuben, Cam was munching on the BLT and I was scarfing down a Chicken Caesar. These were from the Warfield Shell station, a.k.a. the best sub-sandwiches in the Trail/Rossland area.
Once I dragged Dad out of Rafter's, (the apres-ski bar-man was he guzzling those pitchers, or was that me???), I showered up and went on an adventure of a New Year's Eve. Myself and about 60 other people hiked their weary asses up Monte Christo Mountain. The climb from Lower Rossland, (elv ~1000m), up to the summit, (elv ~1250m) was just enough to make me thirsty for some hot apple cider. There was music, a bonfire, GTs and of course copious piles of fireworks to greet 2008.
This a.m. I did the unthinkable and plunged into the roaring Columbia River. The ambient air temperature was a cool -4 C, and the water was reportedly 3C. Here is a photo of Chris, Heather and myself relishing in our victory.
I figured in doing the dip this the year can only get better from here. I am hoping to get a photo of us actually doing the plunge. I was, as always, dressed in my supergirl attire complete with my silver sneakers.
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