New Office for Canadian Ski Quest

Big News...

Canadian Ski Quest has moved Downtown. We are now located at 1936 Queen Street. It is the house behind Ross Vegas.

This is a nice move for our business and also a great improvement to our house. As in we suddenly have room to play in our place and I am not constantly worried about the kids making paper airplanes out of someones arrival details.

Summer days

We are into full on summer weather in Rossland. It is great as long as you are close to water.

Red Deer Water Ramp

We are in Red Deer for a family reunion. I took some time to check out the Red Deer Water Ramp. It could be a good training opportunity for the Red Mountain Academy. I did not get to do it myself....

Red Mountain in Summer

I ran up to the top of Red this morning, my goal was to do it without stopping, which I did, phew.
There was an abundance of huckle berrys near the trail, according to some Rossland old timers, this is a sure sign of a big snow year to come.
It was pretty lonely up there, I waited around the sign for a free ski tip but the service was just not there.

Manager Search

Canadian Ski Quest is hiring a General Manager. The deadline for Applications is this Friday. I am looking forward to going through the process, so far I am very happy with the quality of applicant. There should be an announcement within two weeks.

Raid the North Team Wild Rose

While hiking up Old Glory on Friday we met Team Wild Rose who finished in second place the the Raid the North wilderness endurance event. These guys are close to the finish line here, and are on day SIX of the event. Talk about inspirational, they stopped to chat, were relaxed and looked totally fresh. I did not notice the numbers on their chest's at first and I assumed they were just another group of riders taking on the Seven Summits Trail. They really looked like the had just started. Definitely a standard of fitness to aspire to.

Latest Old Glory Run Ever

Kieren Gaul, from Big Red Cats, and I got the job done today. Nine hours worth. I am exhaysted now and really happy. Unfortunately I had some trouble with my Helmet Cam and did not catch any video, but I had a very memorable top to bottom nonstop run.

View up the North Chute from the bottom, it took an hour to hike up again.






Kieren, still skiing strong near the bottom.








This is me at the start of the day, I think I looked a little different 9 hours later.























This is me on turn two, real steep.