*update*
Wednesday night - musical bingo night! It's a great laugh and it's the midweek night out for many staff members and this week for a lot of my friends family's too! Parents brothers and sisters would be there as well as the normal crowd so it was shaping up to be a good night.
We arrive around 8:30pm after a few drink at ours and get intoduced to my friend Carly's Mum and dad, and then a little later Michaels whole family rocks up too. Lovely atmosphere, happy chatty and all having a nice time. Musical bingo is awesome.
The incident. It's a long complicated story that can be condensed into, two of my over-intoxicated mates got into a fight. One knocked a bloke out and the other was badly injured and suffered concussion after another knock out blow. He had to go to hospital in an ambulance and stayed there tone whole night with a bloodied swollen face. Thankfully he's okay and home now recovering.
However that is not the bad news. Both lads lost thier jobs. They work at the resort so should have known better, but what's more they have been completely banned from the resort. They can't even walk through to see us at work, or for a coffee, or even ski again. We are all absolutely gutted as it may tear down our group of housemates. One is definitely going home, which may cause a chain reaction for two more of my friends to leave. The other is trying to at least revoke the ban so that he can stay here with us, and ski a little on the good days and work down in Invermere. As he suppposed to stick with his best mate and go travelling after the winter season.
Needless to say it's a pretty gloomy mood now in the house and around the resort for us and all our mates from work. They've gone from having responsibility of children's lives on the mountain to forced security escorts around the resort to go retrieve thier belongings. Madness.
We never truly appreciated the special situation we were in and how perfect it was until it was flipped on its head. It's a tough lesson for these boys and I hope they can stay longer I'm not ready to say goodbye yet. Potential to lose some of my closest mates, such nice charismatic blokes in depressing.
In other news it did actually snow all day! Another 10cm which brings the total to over 100cm in the last 6 days. Epic powder day after epic powder day! So Wednesday daytime I was working, from 8am (tough shift) but it did mean I got to go riding at 8:30am and taste all the fresh powder before anyone else got a look in. I was a little dusty from the night before so riding in ankle deep snow was a little but of a suprise! But so much fun.
I had a 1 hour lesson booked for a school group in the morning that never showed so I was able to get paid to go ride some fresh powder and clear my head! Luckily I bumped into one of my lofty friends who had never ridden pow on a snowboard so I gave her a private lesson and showed her a nice, easy, tucked away run called loose moose to practise on. It only takes 1 chair lift from the mountain base to reach and no one uses it! We had fresh track all morning and must have done it around 4 times! So much fun and she picked it up super quick! We definitely discovered pow is a curse and a blessing - it's super fun and soft.. but if you get stuff.. it's blooming hard to get out again! So funny having to swim through chest waist deep snow to save your little friend. Part of the fun I said!
So then I took her into Sunbowl - ungroomed terrain that is a nice place to introduce people to backcountry skiing without chooseing mega difficult runs, it was amazing. Pockets of waist deep snow that was so light you just glided through and smashed.
In the afternoon I met Tom and his brother for some Taunton and Extreme dream zone laps (harder back country) and the snow was epic. Waist to chest deeep, every time you made a turn a wave of snow soared up Andy hit you in the face which freezes your manic grin to your face. Just amazing.
I have training again today and will hopefully grab some footage with my GoPro to try and show you the awesomeness.
Until next time xxx
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