Holi-Daze

Here and Gone! The holi-daze are always a blur, but especially up Mt.Washington. The last day I remember taking note of was Christmas Eve, which I believed happened on a Tuesday. But the days of the week are of little consequence up here during the holidays. Words like Monday, Wednesday and Saturday are replaced with more significant titles; Christmas Eve, Christmas, New Years or just The Snowy Day or that Super Snowy Day...Boxing Day doesn't really make the cut up here, I may be wrong, but it just gets enveloped into one of those in-between days suited for the slopes or some form of recovery....recovering from sore muscles from skiing, sledding or riding, or recovering from some turkey induced coma, or a strange hangover due to the high dairy content of multiple rum and egg nog's.
Paradise Ridge has been a busy busy place this season, we have been near full capacity the entire holidays. It has been a great couple weeks with few incidents. Some vehicles did get damaged due to snow avalanching off of the roof of our building. It is an unfortunate thing to occur and reinforces the need to mention the risk of parking anywhere alongside the building. Entire slabs can slide off the roof at any time and cause major damage or injury. It is important not to park or play too close to side of the building. There are a lot of signs around Paradise Ridge, they aren't for decoration, we know how unsightly too much signage can be. So, one more sign that was poorly obeyed...drum roll please...glass in the hot tub! From my perspective, it's a big one, so I mention it. If you break glass in or around the hot tub, a decent person will do their best to clean it up. However, I guarantee you wont get it all. The tub needs to be drained and vacuumed if this happens, otherwise people get cut...and no, not by the Caretaker, but by the missed shards of glass made invisible by the water. Glass of cool water, Corona bottle, a mickey...all bad news. But the great news is that there was no such incident this Christmas season. If you need to drink some cool water while in the tub, may I suggest Plastic, or for the BPA conscious, stainless steel.
The slopes have been busy, but the conditions have been excellent. Some heavy snowfall early on, continued dustings and lots of blue skies. Not too far off our 2010 record for most snowfall at resorts world wide. Wanna ride some pow...you know where to come, that awesome mountain in the middle of that island off the west coast of B.C. See ya soon