Only at Higher Elevations

Because of Flickr, I've been in an email conversation with a guy named Sampath in Sri Lanka. He initially wrote to ask that I include one of my photos in a Flickr group he created. He wants to highlight Sinhala script. I thought perhaps I had other photos with with text from signs and buildings to include. It was easy to add some of them to that group.

In our email conversations, he mentioned that probably Canada was very cold. He's never actually seen snow. It is often necessary to explain that around the city of Vancouver we seldom see snow that stays on the ground. In the winter though, it's only a hop, skip, and a jump to the mountains. Yes, Vancouver is hosting the Winter Olympics in 2010 but many venues are actually going to take place at the Whistler/Blackcomb mountains.

Today, I wondered if I could find a picture of snow on the local ski hills. Although we arrived to live in 1996, I lack many photos until I went to digital photography in 2002. I did find this old one. There is no date but I strongly believe it was taken in February 2000. I think this was taken with friends on a day we had a winter picnic at Mt. Seymour.