{"id":285,"date":"2008-03-09T22:34:41","date_gmt":"2008-03-10T05:34:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.stevenbrown.ca\/blog\/archives\/285"},"modified":"2008-03-09T22:34:41","modified_gmt":"2008-03-10T05:34:41","slug":"snowboarding-mount-seymour","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.stevenbrown.ca\/blog\/archives\/285","title":{"rendered":"Snowboarding Mount Seymour"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Last week, I spent Wednesday at <a href=\"http:\/\/mountseymour.com\/\">Mount Seymour<\/a>.  Man, that mountain has changed over the last&#8230; six years!?  Half of it seems divided into free style.  It&#8217;s pretty cool!  But the chairs are still dead slow and the runs fairly short, so you spend a while on the chair in between runs.  The weather was awesome except for a fog that was hanging around Mystery Chair until after lunch.  But then it lifted and the afternoon sun had its way with the snow and provided for a VERY nice ride.  I&#8217;ve never been up a mountain totally solo before.  It can get pretty lonely, but I think I got some good practice in and it was still enjoyable.  I&#8217;m still kinda sore.<\/p>\n<p>I need to decide when I will use my Cypress (with my bro?) and Whistler tickets&#8230;.  Hmmmm&#8230;  Soon.<\/p>\n<p>Some photos:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.stevenbrown.ca\/blog\/wordpress\/..\/files\/2008\/03\/img_7726.JPG?ssl=1\" title=\"Lodge Chair\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.stevenbrown.ca\/blog\/wordpress\/..\/files\/2008\/03\/img_7726.thumbnail.JPG?resize=400%2C300&#038;ssl=1\" width=\"400\" height=\"300\" alt=\"Lodge Chair\" class=\"imageframe\" \/><\/a><br \/>\nLodge Chair.  You can see the free style section to the right.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.stevenbrown.ca\/blog\/wordpress\/..\/files\/2008\/03\/img_7728.JPG?ssl=1\" title=\"me\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.stevenbrown.ca\/blog\/wordpress\/..\/files\/2008\/03\/img_7728.thumbnail.JPG?resize=400%2C300&#038;ssl=1\" width=\"400\" height=\"300\" alt=\"me\" class=\"imageframe\" \/><\/a><br \/>\nProof I was there.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.stevenbrown.ca\/blog\/wordpress\/..\/files\/2008\/03\/img_7729.JPG?ssl=1\" title=\"Foggy Mystery Chair\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.stevenbrown.ca\/blog\/wordpress\/..\/files\/2008\/03\/img_7729.thumbnail.JPG?resize=400%2C300&#038;ssl=1\" width=\"400\" height=\"300\" alt=\"Foggy Mystery Chair\" class=\"imageframe\" \/><\/a><br \/>\nMid-week is the best time to go.  There was practically <em>nobody<\/em> there!  Never waited for more than one or 2 people in the lines!<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.stevenbrown.ca\/blog\/wordpress\/..\/files\/2008\/03\/img_7730.JPG?ssl=1\" title=\"Rising above the fog\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.stevenbrown.ca\/blog\/wordpress\/..\/files\/2008\/03\/img_7730.thumbnail.JPG?resize=400%2C300&#038;ssl=1\" width=\"400\" height=\"300\" alt=\"Rising above the fog\" class=\"imageframe\" \/><\/a><br \/>\nThe fog hung mostly around the middle of Mystery Chair.  This is taken on the chairlift, near the top, just as I&#8217;m entering beautiful blue sky.  Then my camera died.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Last week, I spent Wednesday at Mount Seymour. Man, that mountain has changed over the last&#8230; six years!? Half of it seems divided into free style. It&#8217;s pretty cool! But the chairs are still dead slow and the runs fairly short, so you spend a while on the chair in between runs. The weather was&hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.stevenbrown.ca\/blog\/archives\/285\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Snowboarding Mount Seymour<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[1,6],"tags":[9,80],"class_list":["post-285","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general","category-recreation","tag-photos","tag-snowboarding","entry"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4jEMb-4B","jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.stevenbrown.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/285","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.stevenbrown.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.stevenbrown.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.stevenbrown.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.stevenbrown.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=285"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.stevenbrown.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/285\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.stevenbrown.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=285"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.stevenbrown.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=285"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.stevenbrown.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=285"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}