Sandman Inn McBride

Today is a layup day, it didn't start out that way but after a couple hours of steady rain it ended up that way.

After the night in Creston BC on the 15th I started up Kootenay Lake on a wonderful motorcycle road full of twisties but no traffic. A free BC ferry and I was on the west shore of the lake then up and over a pass and down to Arrow Lake and more of the same. A unique town call New Denver that was home to a Japanese internment camp during WWII. The ...

Hello, This week has been chilled, a more lazy afternoon but working hard in the day and now that Umberto's has re-opened i am also working the evenings, Earlier this week we did some maintenance on 7th heaven lift, taking salt up for the summer camps on the glacier, i was at the top and at the end i ski down on untouched parts of the mountain, no one around due to closed for the public, perfect conditions, a whole side of the mountain to myself.. Friday brought me a leaving ...

Not much to report this week, except we have had constant sun and spring skiing on blackcomb has been fun, sticky, slow but fun. The lifty job is going well, with the sight see ers still giving the team and me a headache, had fun today i was creative and funny, why? well after all my morning checks on my left a 0800 hrs this am, all i had to do was wait for the customers to ...

John and i have moved into our new place, on arrival we had lots of cleaning to do due to the place was a mess, but our landlord knocked of some more money because of the mess, our mums would be proud of our cleaning skills... Most people have gone now so Whistler is a ghost town at the moment, sad to see people leave, i have made some great friends over the winter and all will be missed, Umberto ...

Hello all, We have had rain for the past two weeks in the village, and this week we have had sun sun and more sun, spring has arrived and spring skiing is amazing here, Whistler looks amazing this time of the year... So we all had the day off and went boarding in the sun and after went to a BBQ at chilli's house which was perfect looking over the mountain and having the sun setting and then the moon coming over the mountain ridge which you will see on the pictures ...

Two entry's on one day, the reason why is since the mob were here, i did not get time to access to net to update, Lee for his first week boarding did very well due to my expert tutoring.....not.. seriously we took him down some very steep parts of the mountain and he managed to make down one way or the other, either on his back front or boarding down, The videos are funny we were all up early because it was a powder day and Andreas ...

One month in and i feel i have settled in well, Ski patrol is going great although its a hard days work and carrying those rescue sledges down loaded does keep you on your toes and meeting the (EHS) ambulance service are perfect. I have had good trauma calls, torn tendon with a dislocated shoulder, that was painful for the patient i can tell you, but all good i called down one of the doctors on our team for assistant and all worked well with pain relief. You have loads running ...

... Pursuit (to little avail) and catching fleeting moments of sleep. It was less of a challenge having done such a vast distance on the impossibly uncomfortable coach, the memory etched deep in our minds. We stopped irregularly, waiting for the freight trains that were given way and for the short stop in Saskatoon. I woke at sunrise, seeing the last of the Prairies, the cold and flat plains of Saskatchewan stretching as far as the eye can see, in which ...

... main attraction we spotted by the lake, and seem to be the only ones to do so were the mountain goats. Perched on ledges on the rock faces they were hard to spot looking like piles of snow yet to thaw. However in the two days we spent around the lakes we spotted a total of 12 Mountain goats (or Georges according to Lucy)!

... trying to get out hiking and seeing the great places about 10K from the town, in the end I decided to do my first spot of hitchhiking which all went well, even managed to get a lift in a Hummer, not bad! The wildlife and scenery around these parts is truly amazing as it is in Banff, just that Jasper has it's own National Park that is a "world heritage site" so they have one-up on their neighbours in Banff.... Anyway the Photos will do the rest of the talking: