here I am again. I forgot how much patrolling takes out of you physically. my body aches.

saturday morning I woke up at 6 to over a foot of fresh snow. grabbed my gear, said good morning to Tim and Courtney and headed for the Jack creek morning commute. I met up in the boot up room with Bowker. after the morning meeting him and I headed out and pretty much just proceeded to ski fresh tracks for the first three hours. we “opened” tippy’s tumble with the morning crowd looking up from ramcharger and swifty before opening. me in my civilian jacket. priceless!

sunday morning I met up with Rock. we went and opened some runs, met up with Heather McPhie and helped her ski some untouched pow for a photo shoot. sucks to be a patroller!

there’s a douchebag in the upper management that’s been a pain in my arse due to all my travel. last weekend was my training make up sessions with big sky patrol. alls I can say is that I am awesome and my “training” kicked ass. douche immediate switched gears to pleasant and helpful due to this weekends roaring reviews from my trainers. what I got, was pretty much two days of skiing hard with two old timers/upper management patrollers. I am exhausted from all the skiing and I don’t think I ski that hard even on normal patrol days.

bowker reported that I was a strong skier. rock’s review of me was glowing as well. Douche made a point of calling me himself and congratulated me on my reviews. and apologized sunday afternoon about giving me such a hard time. I am pleasantly surprised and makes me feel a lot better about being on big sky patrol.