News '08
Did some cross country skiing and went out for a nice dinner with our parents ...
Visiting Salzburg, another city worth to visit ...
We drove to Grassau next to the Chiemsee. Skiing was on the plan ...
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Going south: Visiting my godmother in Bamberg and Marenge and Stutzi Nürnberg ...
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Heimaturlaub 3: Christmas at home ...
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Heimaturlaub 2: Visiting friends and Family in Darmstadt and Michelstadt ...
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Heimaturlaub 1: We went home via London and met Björn, Johanna and Dirk ...
10.12.08
Our housemate had a beer testing session going on, I think he preferred the german Hefe Weizen, good stuff eh.
Sebastian's birthday ...
We hiked up to Grouse Mountain from our place together with Jenn and Dave ...
Exploring @ Duffy Lake road ... NEW - TEXT AND PICS!!!
08.-11.11.08
Skiing Season started: We went to Rogers Pass. It is a long drive but it was worth it.
Victor did a massive write up on it, 120 pictures. If you want to check it out click here.
I put also some pictures up, no text so, click here.
28.10.08
Winter is on its way: Changed one of the bike racks to the ski rack.
Even there is now snow around at the moment it is never too late to put the ski rack on. Actually last it snow in the local hills so it is not far away.
26.10.08
Kerstin got new brakes on her bike, disc brakes
Riding in the Valley ...
Went to Tofino on Vancouver Island ...
Went for a ride after work in Squamish ...
After the SUN Run in April I decided to run once again:
This time it was a half marathon, the North Shore Half and I made it to the finish line ...
I got a new bike and took it out for a ride to Whistler, the weather was pretty nice, it's probably the nicest time of the year if it doesn't rain. It's not too hot and the colours are just amazing with the yellow leaves, the blue skies and the mountains with some icing sugar on top. Winter is not too far away ...
11.10.08
After having breakfast with Victor in our back yard we went to Fort Langley to check the historical town. Probably the last nice day this year where we can have breakfast outside.
10.10.08
Another day another crane. Check out the movie and the pictures.
Click here to see a movie from the top of the crane.
Click here to see some more pictures.
Playing one of the Canadian national sports: Curling ...
27.-28.09.08
Riding in the Bike Park in Sunpeaks
Last weekend in Sunpeaks from Sebastian Oppel on Vimeo.;
Victor put a tr up on his blog, check it out ...
Riding in Whistler: Gargamel and the bike park ...
Hiking in the backyard, Lynn Peak ...
Riding the shore ...
Hike to Brew Hut ...
11.09.08
Operating a 35 story (about 300 feet or 100 meter) high tower crane. Well, not operating but sitting in the cabin and doing a 360 ...
I also took a movie of it:
03.09.08
Riding in the shore, another movie. Upper Oilcan, Ladies Only and Lower Ladies ...
Hiking at Wedgemount Lake ...
27.08.08
Oasis played in Vancouver at BC-Place ... we had a great night!
23.08.08
Riding the Shore
09.-10.08.08
Went to Silverstar Bike park to shred some gnar
2 week trip to the Kootenays in British Columbia ...
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Work survey ...
Some time ago I flew to Germany over the weekend. Chris and Bea got married ...
Carsten came for a visit to Vancouver ...
Ski touring in July on Mt. Adams ...
05.07.08
That's how you look like if you try to ride in the Whistler Mountain Bike Park in the rain, not that happy :-).
Ps: The picture is taken after I washed my bike and myself with the hose for 10 min.
Sky Pilot attempt: 11 hours of hiking wasn't enough ...
Some more riding in Squamish ...
After the game we went to the Buntzen Lake area ...
29.06.08
Even the support of our housemate Jumbo didn't help.
Riding in Squamish ...
Riding in the Shore, we did a movie ...
Jenn and Aaron got married in Winnipeg so we flew over there. Jenn and Aaron are good friends of us from Vancouver. Kerstin took courses with Aaron together at UBC.
Skiing season isn't over yet. Climbing Mt. Baker ...
Feli and Peter are back from their trip, they rented a small campervan out and toured around BC. Actually it was the smallest car available.
World Championships in Triathlon are in Vancouver
Hiking on Vancouver Island with Feli and Peter. We did the Juan de Fuca Trail, a 47 km long hike along the shore of the west coast of Vancouver Island ...
Seppel took part in the Ski to Sea Race. Now you are gone say what the heck is this. Well, in Germany it would be difficult to do, I guess everywhere in Europe it would be difficult to do. Well, perhaps you could do it in Italy from the Etna or in Iceland. Anyway, here are some pictures of the event and some more details ...
We shred some gnar! First day in the Whistla Bike Park this season! ...
19.05.08
To finish the long weekend up I had the idea to do a road bike trip since I haven't done this sport on the weekend. I haven't done a road bike trip in 3 years so it wasn't that much fun, especially considering the terrain and the weather. I asked Tom who used to race for the canadian cross country ski team. This wasn't probably a smart idea even so he told me he hadn't done much road biking this year. We wanted to climb both mountains, Mt. Seymour and Cypress Mountain. Both Mountains are about 1000 meters above sea level. Since we started on sea level and the road between them goes all the way down to sea level we climbed about 2000m and did 100km. Here are a few pictures:
At the top of Mt. Seymour I still looked okay. This wasn't the case anymore on top of Cypress Mountain. I was pretty tired. It rained all day long (well, it stopped once in a while but as soon as I was dry it started to rain again). We followed the speed limit since it was bloody cold.
And here is a map of the trip:
Now I am pretty tired :-).
18.05.08
We went again Mountain biking in Squamish after we really enjoyed it 3 weeks ago. The trails are pretty smooth and fast. Here are two pictures of Kerstin riding down Roller Coaster.
Summer Ski touring on Mt. Seymour in Shorts ...
Riding in Whistler ...
Riding in Merritt, BC ...
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05.05.08
HAPPY BIRTHDAY MOM
We went to the Inter River Skills Park in North Vancouver ...
We put the bikes on our cars and drove up to Squamish to have a super bike ride thanks to our guide Andrew ...
Hiking and riding the Shore with Terrie and Paul ...
27.04.08
Snowshoe hike on Cypress Mountain with Anna.
We did the Sun Run. What is the Sun Run, it is a gongshow. Here are some more pictures ...
19.04.08
The Ripper is on. It is a local fun race. It was quite nice since we had snow on the ground. The race track was just behind my house in the forest.
18.04.08
It snowed again. It is almost May and the Winter is still not over. It started Friday night and when we woke up the next morning we had about 10 cm of fresh snow in the back yard.
Went riding on the Shore ...
Ski touring in the local hills ...
10.04.08
Watch out when you come to us (for those who don't know our address, we live on Mountain Highway):
08.04.08
Night ski touring with James and Nathan on Seymour Mountain, crazy to ski on April in 20 cm of fresh snow in the local hills. It was a bit crusty but not too bad for a after work ski tour.
05.-06.04.08
Went riding on the weekend, it rained a bit so. Now I have even more freckles ...
03.04.08
I put all the movies together on an index page, not a lot so far but will be more soon ...
Went to Russet Lake Hut again ...
Eastern on Brew Hut ...
a movie of kerstin: some nice turns
Ski touring on Mount Sproat with Kate and Ken ...
Seppel got some new armour for the riding season. Well, actually he got a whole lot more but that wouldn't fit on the pic. Don't worry mum, it is not another bike, just some more parts like a fork, new brakes, new shifters, ...
Ice skating on Grouse Mountain ...
Sunset on top of Vancouver ...
Seppel had to drive to Squamish for work ...
Night ski touring again since the snow the day before was pretty good ...
03.03.08
Night ski touring on Seymour Mountain ...
02.03.08
A Sunday in Vancouver ...
01.03.08
Riding season started ...
23.02.08
Back country skiing at Mount Baker, Washington ...
16.-17.02.08
Back country skiing at Russet
Lake Hut, Whistler ...
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09.02.08
Digging a snow pit in 120
cm of fresh snow, quite wet so ...
03.02.08
We didn't do much all day,
well, cleaned up the flat and the car. Since it was a nice day I thought I could
go up on Cypress for a couple of runs and do some night skiing and check out
Hollyburn Mountain ...
03.02.08
Well, for some people this
might be a normal procedure but for me it was the first time to do it, an oil
change. I have never owned a car for longer than 5000 km (the one in New Zealand
broke down after 4500km). I got some 4x6 from work so I could jack up my car.
02.02.08
Went Backcountry Snowboarding
on Cypress Mountain ...
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30.01.08
Victor put a video together
of his time in BC, biking and skiing, great
stuff ...
30.01.08
A snow storm came through
BC. It snowed up to 30 cm at our place. The traffic was just a gongshow. I even
could build a snowman in the back yard. After work I went up on Seymour Mountain
to go ski touring. There were about 50 cm of fresh dry powder. We got some nice
turns in. I used my biking headlamp system to have enough light. No pictures
of the touring so, too dark :-).
26.- 27.01.08
After staying at Whistler
over night we left Whistler on Saturday morning towards Duffy Lake Road. I guess
not a lot of people know where that is (most Canadians even don't know). You
have to drive through Whistler, past Pemberton and up a pass north for another
30km. After some problems with the GPS (German Positioning System) we finally
were on the right track and had an amazing time, even perhaps the best day of
skiing in my life. Since I am so busy and Victor is doing a good job I just
post a link to his page: www.ginman4.wordpress.com
I also made a small album with best of pictures, no text so: album
We also took a movie: seb floating.mov (15MB)
Terri and Paul put also pictures on their blog ...
28.01.08
Our friends Terri and Paul
stayed a week in Whistler. We drove up there on Thursday night and had an amazing
day of skiing on Friday, thank you guys.
23.01.08
Sunrise above Vancouver ...
21.01.08
Night skiing and skinning,
an a amazing night above Vancouver on Seymour Mountain. I think I need a new
camera.
19.-20.01.08
Skiing in Whistler, one day
inbounds and one day out of bounds ...
15.01.08
Vancouver is sometimes crazy
for traffic so the city builds a sky train, quite interesting for civil engineers
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12.-13.01.08
Visited Tim in Seattle for
his housewarming party. We had a good time and did a snowshoe hike on saturday,
well, it was more a snowball fight than a hike.
06.01.08
Powder days are on. Went
to Whistler first time this season and skied in a bowl which was closed for
three days. It was just sick. There was up to 100cm fresh powder snow. We didn't
take a lot of pictures since the pow was so good and you had to be fast. There
was only time to take pics in the queue of the chairlift. Text and pictures
by Victor Gin ...
28.12.07 to 03.01.08
NEW YORK, visiting
Werner and Laurene in their new home town
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