Most amazing snow ever

This past weekend, Garrett and I went down to Banff with a few friends. We all rented a cabin in Canmore through the Edmonton Alpine Club. The cabin was super nice and completely stocked with dishes, towels, showers and more. It was a clean, cheap place to stay, however the highlight of our weekend was the day we spent at Sunshine Village snowboarding.
I'm sure most of us have heard how great the snow is this year in the Rockies, however I didn't truly realize how wonderful it was until we got to the top of the hill for our first run. It was so amazing! I've never seen snow as nice! We went down on angel light powder nearly the whole day. Sunshine is a really good ski resort - it has a ton of ski lifts, so there is rarely a line to get up the slopes. The runs are wide open, so they aren't crowded with people and you don't have to watch out for people flying by you all the time. As well, since the ski hill is so huge, the numerous runs provide lots of diversity throughout the day.
I'm really proud of how much I've improved at snowboarding in the past few months. We have been up to the mountains 3 times this year and I've been getting significantly better each time. I can now keep up with Garrett on the ski hill, in terms of speed, and I went on my first blue runs ever at Sunshine! I am looking forward to skiing at Fernie in a months time!
The other interesting part of our trip was the celebrity ski event/fundraiser occurring at Sunshine while we were there. Garrett had heard about it on the radio, so we knew that Alec Baldwin, Kelsey Grammar and Christie Brinkley were all supposed to be there. When we arrived, we could tell where the celebrities were, based upon the media crowd at the bottom of the slalom runs. We didn't really try to check it out, but happened to be taking the chair over the event in the afternoon. They were announcing names and people were racing each other down the slalom run, however we didn't recognize any of the names - B-list actors, I suppose. However, when we were halfway up the chair, we heard them announce 'In the blue, Alec Baldwin' as a man in blue jersey skiied down the hill below us. ALEC BALDWIN! Yup, we saw him ski by. He was slow. Nothing much else interesting about it, really. I wanted to see Kelsey Grammar, but no such luck.
In any case, it was a good day snowboarding and a nice getaway from the city. Now we're hard at work again, back at the grind!