weekend off

hey guys
so this is the first post of the Mt Washington BC era
im still in the cona
and will be for a month which im excited about as we have a great crew of guys here some Aussies a couple of Brits a German or 2 and the token Canadian.
We've done our lifty training which included char lift evacuations which basically meant half the group sat up on the lifts for 45 mins to an hour (we of course were second to last so it was an hour) in a blizzard.
I was on a chair with Austin and Ed and unfortunatly our chair was missing the safety bar and as te chair stopped austin looked down and mentioned that heights wernt really his thing.
a load of waiting around later heckling the people saving us we were rescued
this involved throwing up a rope to the haul rope ( the heavy cable the chairs are attached to) and then a kind of wooden chair gets tied to the rope
then you get on the rope and are belayed down to safety
well thats the plan but our guys struggled a little the fact that the girl who was belaying us deffo didnt weigh as much as us resulted in someone having to put weight on her.
All down safe then we swapped round
A bunch of us have got nick names already and then range from the obvious oi weasley ( or weasel ) to me to disco for cam ( a result of him crip walking through every dance floor he sees) lens cap for conrad the big ol kiwi who took 150 pics on friday night with the lens cap on. Then theres ryan who looks scarily like mc lovin so that was a given
you guys get the idea
As we've had early starts in a evening its been pretty much grab a beer and watch the hockey or play some table football (im the cona's undisputed champ atm )
but we've been told that the starts get even earlier
as the bus that runs to the mountain leaves at 630 am
ahh well just means late nights are off the cards a lil more
the liftys have got the party rep already after friday and saturday with other departments trying to organise stuff also but they dont seem to be able to
50 lifties hitting courtenay on friday was a sight to be seen

anyway i think thats about that

oh yeh 42 cm of snow on thursday and another 30 cm on friday morning
and another 20 cm last night

so we are opening on the 3rd :) woop

peace

snow snow snow

so so so
i am currently in the cona hostel
in courtenay
and i start my job tomorrow at the ski hill
i got here eventually
so got the greyhound
it has snowed so much in vic that we took like 3 hours to get out
so we were told no more buses north of nanimo today
so was already to get a hotel
then a nice guy called dan was getting a ride from his bro so me and my new german friend lisa were going to get a ride with him
by this time we had bombed it to nanimo
and when there we were told one more bus would run to courtenay
so jumped on this
but by this point i had lost my ticket
so bought a new one
so half way to courtenay and the roads are super icy wer going super slow
and guess what
i find the bloody thing
so thats another 25 bucks wasted
but im gunna go to the depot tomorrow and try to get a refund
so yeh im officially not living at 811 any more which im choked about as had a great 5 months living there
anywho night chaps

remember remember oh its already novemeber

Hows this for my old office ???

wow so its already bonfire night weekend

its really strange to be away from home first time ive missed the whitley gathering at chez Rumens since i was five maybe six i know Ian and dad never can quite remember and always have the conversation.

I did skype them though and was fantastic to see them all even old man webb

so whats been going on the past month or so hmmmm

Firstly I managed to wangle myself a pay rise which im happy about although my hours got cut so swings and roundabouts and all that jazz.

been bombarding various mountains with support theo's ski season emails and got a couple of interviews out of it just waiting to hear back from a couple and waiting for someone to answer a phone at a certain alberta mountain grrrr.

Ive picked up the pretty much all my board gear now just need boots and bag and some gloves and im all set.

Ive taken a bunch of pictures recently and Ive been getting pretty stoked about them actually.

this is one of my faves i took it on the greyhound back from nanimo where i had a job interview

The route we were on was just the standard one but it followed round the coast. Luckily there was still a little light out and caught the bloke doing a spot of fishing.

but heck what a view eh???

we also managed to host an after party for a friends band the after party started at 3 am

finished about ohhhh 8 or so im not really sure but the sun was well up.

I didnt know about it was woken up by kyler running into my room while saskia and me were asleep saying guys i love you but..........

we have 40 people turning up here in ...

knocking on the door

oh their here

my reply was something along the lines of i could kill you right now kyler but with slightly fuitier language.

but turned into a great night except for our current lack of glasses of any sort thanks to jayce's love of losing / breaking / borrowing them.

Heres a cheeky little picture of Kyler blending in with the kitchen cuboards perfect camouflage.

Ive been doing a bunch of cruising round the city on my bike as we've had a beautiful october without more than 2 days of rain on the bounce. We are still spending plenty of time out on the decking.

For Halloween I hung out with the work guys and included in the list of costumes were thor a scuba diver some clowns and myself as tiger .

( essentially the top and head of a five year olds costume with an orange t-shirt underneath) It really was fantastic I got the short straw on helping Kye with his costume but we had a laugh as he went as the sky so we spent an enjoyable hour or so cutting out templates for clouds birds the sun and then stringing on some toy planes to his tee shirt.

So this next picture is on the greyhound again coming back from up island and i was so excited as i had just found out that i could take light track shots on the little digital camera dad found on ebay just before i came out here anyway ill write again soon hopefully with news of skihill success

happy hunting