Day two of our first 2010 Canadian Ski Quest Camp today. Unfortunately we were limited to the outstanding conditions on Silverlode Chair.We have recently had quite a bit of new heavy snow around the base area. This has caused quite a few trees to come down. A branch of a huge Cottonwood near the Day lodge broke last night under the strain which meant other branches needed to be cut. During this procedure one branch fell across the power wires which caused a short. None of us in the group have ever seen anything like this: We saw a huge sky blue spark directly above the car park and then in rapid succession three more going up to the maintenance sheds. It looked disastrous, but it did stop thankfully. It was quite incredible, I would say each spark was about 1.5 square meters in size. The result was power outage for the Day Lodge, T-bar, Red Chair, and Motherlode. Thankfully Silverlode was not affected so we could at least ski.
We took advantage of the opportunity to work on technical skiing challenges. Still a good fun day. In late afternoon we traversed over to the T-bar and were rewarded with 20-30 turns of glory.
Photo is of Gayle Bourke-Shepard
Video clip is Michael O'Brien
3 comments:
We had a light show like that on the balcony here on Fri 18th Dec, I didn't know I could move so quick!!
cg
Welcom back,i miss your blogg ,just dont dwell on how much snow red gets,im at pano .Hope to visit at some stage ,chris
Was that a wipeout I heard after you went past the camera?
Of course not. What was I thinking?
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