One thing I forgot to mention about yesterday was that it was my very first day that I was not on the mountain. I've had my skiis on every single day since Feb 10 except for yesterday, including 2 full days for free skiing. Today was a 7:30 breakfast, 8:30 load time which for me meant getting up at 5:15am. Today was my best day for meeting buses. The Pemberton bus was right there when I walked the 500meters or so from Jeff's place to the bus stop, the connection bus from the village to creekside was right there and so was the bus back to Pemberton. It's really nice not to have to wait for buses. Starting Monday, the bus schedule will be significantly reduced as the games wrap up on Sunday.
The remaining members of my team (Elizabeth and myself) have been assigned to Randy's team for the week while we wait for Dave to return this Saturday. Randy is a great guy to work for, good sence of humor and very organized. After spending 3 hours clearing the flat section below Boyd's Chin, and taking in some of the Ladies GS race (second run) we headed for lunch in the mid-station soup tent. This was fun because we got to see the Canadian womens curlers make it into the gold medal final on the TV in the tent. After lunch we we headed back down to the finish slope to begin clearing the remaining snow from last night. This was quite a bit of work but only took another 2 hours. After that we were dismissed.
The timing was good for this because Wom had to go in for an emergency root canal at 4pm and needed someone to pick Mat (his son) after a day skiing. The kids here are on March break already, so he need a bit of babysitting help. I was able to use is truck to go for a small tour around Pemberton. It felt wierd to drive a vehicle since I have not done that in nearly 3 weeks. I pickup up Wom at 6:30pm when he was done. He's a new man now that is tooth has been fixed.
We spent a quiet night at home watching the Olympics. Although I have not actually attented any events, I do get a fair chance to watch some of it on TV. It was dissapointing to see the results in the mens freestyle aerials. I thought we'd get a medal in that event for sure. Such is sport I guess.
Fernando sent me a text from Williams Lake BC today. He was back patrolling his hill today and wanted to report the fine powder conditions. His hill just happens to be called Mt Timothy. I may have to visit there one day to check out my name sake hill. Looks like some really nice challenging skiing.
Because the ladies will run the slalom event tomorrow (Men's saturday), the ladies crew was asked again to come in for a 2am breakfast, 3am load. I bet they are getting pretty tired of that. After tomorrow, all thier events will be done, so there is just one more day for them. Keep up the great work 'ladies crew', my thoughts are with you. For the men's crew, we have been asked to come in for a 2PM load time. This may seem strange, but I think there is more snow on the way tonight/tomorrow morning. Hopefully they won't keep us too long since I really want to watch the Canadian men's semi final hockey game tomorrow night. To bad for the people in the east since this game won't start until 6:30pm PST.
Go Canada Go
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