RV Ski Camping Trip at Manning Park Ski Resort! | Home A Roam S03E08 (4K)

We are back at Manning Park and we are ski-rving. And we wouldn't have even known that was a thing if it wasn't for our awesome neighbor. So big shout out to our neighbors. Let's go skiing. Manning Park ski hill near Hope BC has a really unique experience where you can combine downhill skiing with RV camping. You'll just need to be a bit brave in getting there since you'll need traverse a section of Highway 3 that's notorious for unexpected winter storms and bad driving conditions. So I have to admit we do have a fair bit of stuff considering we're only going for one night. But we have found recently that sometimes it's good to have stuff that you might not use rather than need something that you don't have. The rug's freshly vacuumed here. Thank you. Here you take them put them where you already swept. So one of my biggest issues is that we're trying to like deal with the cold floor with winter camping right and so um I'm bringing a yoga mat fairly thick yoga mat to put on the floor and then I brought a runner from inside the house to um put over top of that and hopefully that will help a little bit with at least a walking strip across the floor. So we'll see. We'll test that out. How's it going? So we learned from our last experience where we couldn't get this tonneau cover open easily so now we have everything forward of the divider here. That's good. Learn from your mistakes. So we're gonna because we're going downhill skiing and we're camping right at the base of the ski hill folks and super spoiled we've got electricity tonight so I'm gonna have the electric blanket on I'm gonna have all the lights on we've got a space heater I'm stoked we're celebrating our uh let's see the one year anniversary of our first youtube video and it also happens to be my birthday so we're just gonna go and have some cake anyways off we go. We had been checking the weather very closely and adjusted our trip dates several times based on the forecast. The morning of we checked the webcam. The highway looked pretty snow covered but the forecast wasn't calling for much more so we figured conditions would be better by afternoon. So the roads were just excellent way better than we expected dry for the most part and no snow at all so knock on wood because we haven't gone back yet but um I think we picked the right days now the sun's out it's great. You need some help? They really should put like a bigger lip on these. You gotta you gotta push in there and pull out at the bottom oh okay watch watch okay with the gloves it doesn't work so you gotta push push like that and then pull the bottom up okay yeah we're still like kind of newbies we don't have all the answers but we have some of the answers we got power I've got the yoga mat for extra insulation and cushioning and then on top of that I've got the rug from home which is actually one of our hallway rugs but we're trialing it and then if it works we'll buy one for the trailer all right and this comes along here hi look out all right that's way better like cold foot not so cold foot. If you're gonna come up here the best day to come is actually Fridays because he said this part of the ski hill is closed during the week but it opens on Fridays for the weekend and so if you're looking for powder it snows all week here accumulates this beautiful powder and then on Friday you show up you got fresh powder to ski on or snowboard whatever you like. So you guys are gonna start to think that we're boring because we're having curry again this is turning into our favorite camping meal for sure we are so grateful to our friends who recommended this but I think we've got a little bit of an unhealthy obsession with them now but no honestly it's just because it's cold out and I mean they're so quick and easy um and actually we're adding to it because we have electricity at this site we got rice micro easy quick microwavable rice which normally we wouldn't have so it's like you know we're switching things up a little bit just not a lot it's time to make Mel's birthday cupcake so we got a cupcake and we got this crazy icing now I don't know it kind of looks like toothpaste so I watched the YouTube video on this and you've got to like do some test bits okay and we're getting white and purple but no teal yet oh I see some teal ready it'll take a long second apparently there we go all right happy birthday to you so thank you so I totally ripping this idea off of another channel that I saw do this but it was so brilliant um so what we've done here is taken a small electric blanket kindly donated to me by one of my friends we're gonna put it under the blankets to heat up the bed for you know maybe 30 minutes an hour I don't know we'll see um before bedtime so that the mattress and the blankets will all be nice and cozy when we get in bed how perfect is that I love it so we're up it's a beautiful day we had a pretty reasonable sleep until about 5 a.m then we got woken up by the big huge plow again but yeah partly cloudy not too cold it looks like a beautiful day for skiing and we're looking forward to it Mel's got her onesie going again breaking out the onesie it's a thin warm layer it's perfect for going under ski stuff so that I stay warm but I can still move what do you think of the ski boots kitten um but some of the area stats of the ski resort 30% of their runs are novice so green circles 40% are intermediate so that's your blue squares and 30% are deemed expert so your black diamond there's all those runs cover 140 acres and you get a vertical gain of a little over a thousand feet it's not like it's not whistler it's not whistler or something but you know it's still like a really good hill it won't be nearly as busy as whistler yeah it won't be nearly as busy that's important and they get a crap ton of snow here their annual snowfall is 293 inches of snowfall how many centimeters is that 743 centimeters 743 centimeters that's unimaginable so that's seven and a half feet seven and a half meters sorry seven and a half meters multiply that by three by three so that's like 25 feet of snow on average per year love it what do you think how does it look i think it looks all right but maybe a little bit icy 10 after nine yes some of the first ones on the hill yep and as you can see it's not that busy look behind us check the view easiest route that's the one for us we haven't been skiing in eight years well this is a workout it's like freaking cross-country skiing first run how was your first run it was really good so at first i was like super scared because my weight was like more to the back and that causes the fronts of your skis to like cross and that's really not good if you want to wipe out it's a great way to wipe want to wipe out but uh about halfway down i kind of started to get the hang of it again and pushing my weight forward really squatting like i was squatting so low i was squatting so low my thighs were burning like it was awesome it's such a good workout i'm so excited all right so yeah time to go again oh i don't know if this is a good idea scary idea all right lead the way i almost lost it oh my my legs are burning all right guys we are wrapping it up now it's uh the end of the day the lifts are getting ready to close and uh man our legs are so tired so we're gonna pack things up it was an awesome day out here at manning park we absolutely loved it oh amazing this just beautiful weather the trails were just absolutely perfect and it wasn't very busy practically had the place to ourselves yeah it was great so as always if you enjoyed this video please give us a like and subscribe and hit that notification bell we really appreciate it thank you and in the meantime keep on living the life you've imagined we're gonna try this one right under us that looks way too steep your your camera is pointing to the but we have found recently that sometimes it's nice to have things even if you're not going to use them all right we got a condition update here for you it's seven degrees and i'm in a winter coat and i'm sweating