This week just flew by. It was a lovely working vacation and now it's time to go. I'm not looking forward to going home to floors covered with dog hair and mud (from all the melting snow) but reality must be faced. I've enjoyed this little piece of heaven while it lasted:
Getting everything back down the mountain and loaded into the truck was a huge chore. We didn't have the help that we were told we would have and the people we rounded up to help weren't really thrilled with the job but we finally got it done. This cat made 4 round trips from the superpipe to the truck:
Gloria practiced her skiing while we worked. She would ski down the hill closest to the truck and wait for Rob to bring her back up on the snowmobile.
Rob would take the snowmobile to the top of the hill, put a load in the snow cat and then ride back down to the truck to wait for the cat so they could unload it and do it again. He rescued a little girl while he was waiting and it wasn't Gloria. We heard desperate screams that caught the attention of everyone in the area but we couldn't tell where they were coming from. Rob jumped on the snowmobile and headed over to the slope where they were coming from. He found a little girl, about 4 years old, stuck in a snow bank. Turns out she had gotten seperated from her class and had gone over a steeper edge and plowed into the soft powder. Her coach came along shortly after Rob pulled her out, setting her back on her skiis and giving her a little shove in the right direction. She seemed to recover but I felt so sorry for her.
We finally left the resort at about 3:00 and made the uneventful trip home. It was quite a week.
Getting everything back down the mountain and loaded into the truck was a huge chore. We didn't have the help that we were told we would have and the people we rounded up to help weren't really thrilled with the job but we finally got it done. This cat made 4 round trips from the superpipe to the truck:
Gloria practiced her skiing while we worked. She would ski down the hill closest to the truck and wait for Rob to bring her back up on the snowmobile.
Rob would take the snowmobile to the top of the hill, put a load in the snow cat and then ride back down to the truck to wait for the cat so they could unload it and do it again. He rescued a little girl while he was waiting and it wasn't Gloria. We heard desperate screams that caught the attention of everyone in the area but we couldn't tell where they were coming from. Rob jumped on the snowmobile and headed over to the slope where they were coming from. He found a little girl, about 4 years old, stuck in a snow bank. Turns out she had gotten seperated from her class and had gone over a steeper edge and plowed into the soft powder. Her coach came along shortly after Rob pulled her out, setting her back on her skiis and giving her a little shove in the right direction. She seemed to recover but I felt so sorry for her.
We finally left the resort at about 3:00 and made the uneventful trip home. It was quite a week.
1 comment:
The floors weren't that muddy!
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