Jeffrey Vanneste’s Personal Blog

Rach and the GC girls (Genetic Counseling Girls) wanted to go to this big tubing hill when their boyfriends were in town. We went out this weekend for the big event to Glissades des Pays d’en Haut. I can’t say I was terribly excited for this outing. Tubing down a hill requires absolutely no skill. It’s like the activity people who have failed to ski or snowboard do.  I think Devin would say “Tubing is not a skill game.”

Rach told me they had 30 runs. Runs. At a tube hill. It’s not like you can steer the tube. Well, this is what the runs looked like.

There was a chair lift and also a belt to take people with their tubes to the top.  The problem here is they only went half way then you had to climb stairs.  Seriously, why not go all the way?  They had lift tickets which made me laugh. I started to imagine if they would have “tube patrol” instead of ski patrol. They would be the expert tubers in orange suits with the little first aid trays behind them. Sadly, I did not spot any tube patrol.

We paid an extra $4 so we could go on a raft as well. We thought it would be pretty awesome to run and get some extra speed.  Here is us getting ready to run with the raft.

It seemed like it would be awesome. Until these tube-nazi’s told us “This isn’t an Olympic Sport.” What? Really?  After they shared their intellect with us we got in the raft like good little boys and girls.  The rafts actually were the least exciting part. They didn’t go that fast and you just sat there.

Going down the expert runs on the tubes turned out to provide the best speed. I think we tried every combination of with 6 people. A straight line hanging onto each others legs, “The Clump”, 2 by 3, etc. This is “The Clump” at the top.

I took one picture while I was going down the hill. I think it turned out really good.

I think I complained to Rachel quite a bit before going.  I made the deal that if I went tubing this year that we would go skiing next year.  I think tubing at White Tail (which is now called “Blue Mountain”) still tops this (plus bonus points cause it’s in SK).  At least there you get on a huge tube with like 10 people and go flying into hay bales.  As was said today, “As the chance on injury increases so does the fun.”  I think I will retire my tubing career and consider taking up more exciting or skillful activities.