Ontario Snowboarding
Adam on Ontario’s Snow Crisis: Not So Intelligent
A friendly reporter from the Canadian Press interviewed me over the weekend for a story about our lack of snow up here. The resulting article focused largely on the impact the weather was having on stores, and features a fair bit of moi.
Although I was quoted at length in this story, I didn’t emerge sounding like the most intelligent fellow. Check out some of these nuggets:
“Frankly, the wait to go snowboarding, when you are really interested
in it, starts to really suck around October, when it is still not going
to snow for a while but all this new equipment is coming out.”
And:
“Everybody I’ve spoken to, my friends anyhow, are all just buying stuff
in preparation to go somewhere else that is not in Ontario.”
Ah, yes. Sucks and stuff! Way to go!
Now, this certainly wasn’t the reporter’s fault; he seemed to quote me verbatim, which is actually great. I just need to work on my eloquence a wee bit.
And while we’re talking about it: the Ontario ski season is getting really, really ugly. Moonstone is down to two lifts, nine slopes; Blue Mountain hopes to re-open on Wednesday. Of course, it looks like winter is supposed to return the day I leave for Whistler. D’oh!
(Edit: now it’s supposed to hit 13 celsius the day I leave.)
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i feel the same way when i read some of your posts, i need work on my vocab a bit
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