You want to know my favourite thing about Whistler?

Cody is safely installed in his season in Whistler, here’s how he is getting on…

A ski season in Whistler with Alltracks Academy is something I’ve been looking forward to for a long time. With most of my 15 years of ski experience having been spent on ski holidays in Les Arcs , my goal has always been to do a season at Whistler.  A key ingredient to the success of such a commitment is often the people you live with. I mean, it would really be unbearable if you were rooming with a terrorist or living next to the Hitlers. As it turns out though, I got lucky and I’m now living with a really cool bunch of people, 5 guys and one girl (God be with her).

The crew chilling in Whistler (that's me! second from left)

 Coincidentally, our condo happens to be a first class piece of ski property, into which our self-described family has settled rather happily. Everyone we talk to soon understands that the members in our condo actually resemble a real family. There’s Mike, Sam and myself who are all the youngest at 19, who kind of get treated as the children. Then there’s Neil, a laidback and wise father figure whom we all call Dad. There’s also a blonde Australian (the only one of us not from the UK) called Liv whom we dubbed Mum, mainly because none of us fulfil the gender requirements to be called it ourselves. Then there are two guys called Ted and Adam who resemble fun uncles, in the way that they are so tight and always bring the entertainment. Our family’s even reached the stage of nicknames; Sam has unwittingly become Samwise from the Lord of the Rings, which of course abbreviates to “The Hobbit”. I have been renamed Chip Hazard, Chip for short, because I look like some guy from a franchise called “Small Soldiers”, have you heard of it? I hadn’t, so I looked him up, and I have to say that I see no resemblance. There are countless inside jokes, and it just goes to show the bonds we’ve created within the house. Knowing that they have my back and that I have theirs is a blessing. If I get into some trouble at a club, I know that one of them will step in and help me out. This is pretty handy because I’ve never really been able to inspire fear in other people’s hearts. I can honestly say that I wouldn’t change a thing about my house or the people inside it. The annual French ski holidays seem a pleasant family memory for now. I love them, but they don’t offer the same life-changing chance of meeting new exciting people. The resort itself is another whole new experience. Whilst my times in France have been great, Whistler ski holidays offer something different, in both terrain and people, and this is why these moments are becoming the happiest of my life.