The 4th Annual BALLFEST SLo-Pitch Tournament is set to take place July 15-17, 2011. This is a super fun tournament and a great weekend for all!!

Building on the successes of past years we will continue on in much the same fashion and hope that we will see 20 teams participating this year. We will also be adding Friday Night Games and a welcome dinner to the Friday Night Cabaret Party.

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The date and course has been set and the inaugural year of this memorial tournament for my dad is going to be something special. I am very excited to get the ball rolling on have great visions of what a tournament like this can become. Growing it into a large scale fundraising event for charities that my dad valued is a defined goal, however it is ultimately just about getting together and having fun.

I can;t think of any better way to honor my dad, who loved to golf!!!

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Over the past couple years I have not gotten out on my snowboard as much as I would like. So with Spring in the air I find myself doing a little ‘cramming’…

I was very excited to have lined up a gig with Snow Challenge Canada (www.snowchallengecanada.com) to drive their group of training instructors and patrollers to a nearby mountain once a week for the first few weeks of March. I enjoyed riding Kicking Horse for the 1st time on March 1st and again for the 2nd time two weeks later. Heading South to Kimberley in between was a nice change up that was made awesome by fresh snow.

With the legs feeling good it came time for the Annual Trip to Nelson & Rossland….amazing!!! Driving up the hill to Whitewater on Saturday and seeing a new chairlift surrounded by nice fresh lines and plenty of untracked powder got the heart pumping…and it stayed pumping all afternoon as we adventured our way through powder run after powder run. We had so much fun we decided to alter our plans to head to Rossland the next morning and stayed for another day at White. Bluebird skies in the morning told us we had made a good decision and it definitely proved to be another amazing day. We ripped over to Rossland at the end of the day and settled in for a restful evening before our last day of the trip riding Red.

Red has become one of my all-time favorite mountains and I was excited to make the most out of the day, but when we woke up to rain we opted to take a little mroe time getting up to the hill. A decision that was soon to be dwelled on (briefly) as we made our way to the top of the Motherlode to find a winter wonderland of fresh lines. I love Red!!! It always seems like such a rewarding adventure when you are treking through the glades and just when you think you’ve gotten in a little over your head, it opens up to a pillowy playground of awesome!!

Ugh, so here we are riding the best snow, it’s still puking, and we only have a couple hours left. What can be done? Well, obviously you bring all your stuff back to the hotel you already checked out of and ask for your room back so you can stay an extra day. Well worth it!!! I love Red! Only problem was that after another day riding amazing powder in snowy conditions…and staying yet another extra night…we woke up to blue bird skies luring us to stay another day. Alas, the responsible decision to get back was debated and may be the source of some mixed feelings, but the truth is it was an epic 4 days and a nice, sunny drive home!!

Same places, same time-ish next year for sure!!!

Cramming is fun, but it does leave me wishing I had rode more this year. It was a season of epic snowfalls and it’s drawing to a close…..just as I’m getting in to it!!