June 2007 - thank you for a great season
06/08/2007
After a long and busy season, I’m now repairing fences and planting potatoes, enjoying a bit of time at home. It will just be a brief interlude before I’m off setting up and monitoring the Raid the North Adventure Race. But there is time to sip a glass of wine and reflect on this extraordinary winter: record snowpacks from late October into June. Huge avalanches throughout the North (none affecting us). Fantastic skiing conditions into late May. And many smiling faces and happy tired people gathering around the big table at the lodge evening after evening.
It is because of you, our guests, that this was such a great season. You came, you worked hard, you skied hard, and you let us share in your fun and happiness. When all is said and done, that’s what makes being a mountain guide worthwhile.
We hosted the first ever Level I professional avalanche course at Burnie (check the CAA listings for the one next January). We skied almost every week of the winter with guests from places like Breitenbach, Tirol and Tijeras, New Mexico. There were still 225 cm on the ground at the lodge when I finally left it with the last group on the 9th of May to ski out to the Telkwa River Road.
I’m feeling satisfied and grateful as I think back on this winter. This is to thank you, and to let you know that I’m looking forward to seeing you again.
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