Three days in one

OK so the title of this post is probably a bit misleading but i have three days to write about and only have time for about a quarter of a post!

So a brief catch up of whats been cooking this weekend.
Friday started of fairly relaxed and i certainly didn't rush to get up after the late night before. My intentions were to spend the day doing the reading for the first aid course i had today - oh how that went out the window.
I ended up browsing round town with the boys and falling victim to the sales. Knowing i was going cat skiing on Saturday i couldn't resist the mix of Passing Level 1, the big discounts and a pair of skis i loved the look of. oops!
For those wondering why - they are a different type of ski for skiing different types snow and doing tricks on, there is logic to my madness honest - lots of people have two pairs!
Anyway the only other thing that happened on Friday was an evening of hockey which was good despite the Riders losing 4 - 3.

Saturday was something entirely new. An early start was followed by a 40 min bus ride to the Fernie Wilderness Lodge. Here we were kitted up and grouped into our Cats. The process is slow to get going as the cats only travel about 5 km an hour and are very bumpy. It takes about 45 mins to get to the mountain. When we arrived on the mountain we did a quick avalanche transceiver test and then travelled another 15 mins to the top of the mountain. Here we unloaded and following our guide let loose in the back country, skiing the amazing terrain. During the day we did about 8 - 9 runs down different areas - it was superb, the powder was not at its best but the experience was still awesome. There were some spectacular wipeouts from everyone involved, some made it onto video or picys. When i get them i will upload some for you to see. Even with breaking down and not having great pow pow its an experience i cant wait to repeat.

When we did get back to the lodge later in the evening i just chilled and did the reading for the first aid course i had today.

On that note today has been fairly straight forward; i woke early for a Sunday and slowly ate breakfast happy and content that i had just had to walk down the corridor to the training room. How wrong i was, i read the note again @ 7.55 to discover that it was actually at the college so we bombed it downtown to get there and made it by 8.15.

The training went from 8 till 5 but was actually quite good fun and very useful, the instructor was very good as well. Happily at the end of the day we had an exam which i passed and can now add trained emergency first aider to my list of qualies. Two in a week - cool.

Anyways peps dinner was from the Macy D's tastealike and a bit of hockey followed. Then i wrote this and am now sleeping in prep for tomoz - the start of Level 2!

Laters