It's Spring!

And the bitches are out in full force! The Kates and Matthew hit the slush/powder at Louise on Sunday. Well, Matthew did 3 runs, had pizza and then slept in the car all afternoon. The skiing was pretty good, the conditions were really variable but there was lots of good stuff to be had and nobody on the hill. Even with very little crowd, spring skiing tends to bring out the best in outfits and we managed to capture a few suits du jour for our readers.
The intention was to put together a nice video for the day, but filming stopped after one addition to the blooper reel. Warning, the video you are about to see is graphic, but nobody was seriously injured so laugh away.

Katie working on her 360

He says he did it, but there's no proof

Matthew and Katie

One heck of a onesie

Well, it's jeans, and that's just funny

Photo docutmentation of the afore-mentioned incident

As eluded to in the comment section of the previous post, I had a little incident in the parking lot at Kicking Horse. We were leaving on Sunday, all of the skiing behind us with, surprisingly, very little carnage to speak of in the Kate department. I am somewhat famous for spectacular wipe-outs/face-plants/tree-hugs, but this weekend I had kept it to a minimum... only one face-plant and one tree-hug! So there I am, walking to the car, singing very obnoxiously loudly to Stairway to Heaven, which was playing on the loud-speaker. All of the sudden, BAM! I was on my face with my skis coming down and landing on the back of my head. Apparently it looked pretty nasty because nobody laughed until I did. Anyway, a picture is worth a thousand words, so I'll shut up and let it do the talking...

So you Girls think you're skiers?

This is a forward I got today. It sounds like a good training regime for next year's season. It'll get us used to the variable Alberta weather we so wilingly choose to ski in and the ever inflating cost of a ski ticket. Enjoy!


The ski season is finally here. This list of exercises will help you get ready...
- Visit your local butcher and pay $30 to sit in the walk-in freezer for
half an hour. Afterwards, burn two $50 dollar bills to warm up.
- Soak your gloves and store them in the freezer after every use.
- Fasten a small, wide rubber band around the top half of your head
before you go to bed each night.
- If you wear glasses, begin wearing them with glue smeared on the
lenses.
- Throw away a hundred dollar bill - RIGHT NOW!
- Find the nearest ice rink and walk across the ice 20 times in your ski
boots carrying two pairs of skis, accessory bag and poles. Pretend you
are looking for your car. Sporadically drop things.
- Place a small but angular pebble in your shoes, line them with crushed
ice, and then tighten a C-clamp around your toes.
- Buy a new pair of gloves and IMMEDIATELY THROW ONE AWAY!
- Secure one of your ankles to a bedpost and ask a friend to run into
you at high speed.
- Go to McDonald's and insist on paying $8.50 for a hamburger. Be sure
you are in the longest line.
- Clip a lift ticket to the zipper of your jacket, get on a motorcycle
and ride fast enough to make the ticket lacerate your face.
- Drive slowly for five hours - anywhere - as long as it's in a
snowstorm and you're following an 18-wheeler.
- Fill a blender with ice, hit the pulse button and let the spray blast
your face. Leave the ice on your face until it melts. Let it drip onto
your clothes.
- Slam your thumb in a car door and don't bother to go see a doctor.
* Repeat all of the above every Saturday and Sunday until you're ready
for the real thing!

And Now, A Word From Our Sponsors

Well, we've been on the introweb for a while now and we haven't taken the time to plug for our sponsors. How rude of us! Mind you, they have no idea that they sponsor us in any way, and really don't provide us with any sort of funding at all... but hey, if Warren Miller has taught us anything, it's that you can't be in the ski media business without frequent product shots! So here they are, the BOS sponsors...

We're not high-profile enough to get Nature Valley granola bars, so we are sponsored by
Safeway Selct Granola bars... thanks Safeway!

BOS is also brought to you by Powerade. Like the smiling while not really
drinking the drink shot? We did!

The Rocky Mountain Fudge Factory... okay, I know what you're thinking,

"fudge can't really be part of a hard-core skier's diet can it?" Well think again!

What kind of skis do these ladies rip on? When we ride we prefer Atomic, Salomon and Dynastars.

We have saved the best for last. You may think that poles are pretty simple pieces of equipment, and any $10 set should do just fine... well, if that's what you're thinking, then you are correct. But not just any old poles will do for the BOS girls. On the contrary, we need pretty flowery poles to get the most out of every turn! Thanks to the good people at Scott for designing the Mahalo with classy ladies in mind, every girl needs a good pole...