Culips Everyday English Podcast Bonus episode #169 – Stories from Canada
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Mar 1, 2026 A storyteller returns to Kelowna and recounts winter plans that were foiled by unusually warm weather. He pivots to skating at a mountain rink with borrowed hockey skates and teaches Australians to skate. He also describes a front-row hockey game where a big hit popped out the plexiglass and the crowd chaos kept things lively.
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Forest Skating Loop Closed By Warm Weather
- Andrew planned to skate the one-kilometre forest loop at Apex Mountain but the loop was closed due to warm temperatures so he chased alternatives.
- He instead went to Big White higher up, beat the clouds, skated on a Zambonied outdoor pond with his brother's hockey skates and loved speeding and stopping on fresh ice.
Mountains Put You Above Kelowna's Cloud Inversion
- Kelowna's valley geography often traps low clouds, making winter gray and depressing locally despite sunny conditions higher up.
- Going up to mountains like Big White can put you above the clouds into bright bluebird days.
Perfect Morning On A Zambonied Outdoor Pond
- At Big White Andrew borrowed his brother's hockey skates and stick and found an almost empty, well-maintained outdoor pond early in the morning.
- The pond was Zambonied, about soccer-field sized, above the clouds on a bluebird day, and he skated for about an hour.
