Whis. Day - Past few days

So lots of things went down for the past few days. I'll just quickly high light them and explain anything important.

So firstly, I'll explain the bad news.  I got my bike stolen, yup, it was shitty knowing that people still go around and steal anything they can get their hands on.  I bought the bike on Thursday for $40 off someone on CL.  Brought it to the bike shop and got it rechained.  After I left it in a place unlocked with all the other ones for one night, it gets taken.  I should of known better than to leave it unlocked but thinking its only a crappy $40 bike made me think otherwise.  It's so difficult to realize something is so important until it's suddenly gone.  Now I have to walk around the village again or do the whitebike program when I really need it.

Anyways, here's all the other stuff that went well:

Thursday

Today was the outdoor training day.  Waking up and getting dressed at 7:30, I proceeded down to the Blackcomb lift to meet everyone.  It was raining just a bit that day so everything was wet.  We were divided into groups of eleven people and there I made a few friends, even some from Barrie ON!  Our first station was the emergency procedure where we learned what to do if someone was hanging off of the chairlift and needed to be rescued.  We did it under the Magic chair and our feet was soaked by the shrubs and tall grass.

Next we headed down to the Wizard chair and learned where everything is and how to work it.  We then headed up the lift just to see the same thing on the other side.  Pretty much the whole day was being taught the same thing, our whole group just talked a lot and everything went by pretty fast.  After lunch, we met up and our supervisor took us through the Whistler mountain chairs, first up the gondola, then to fitzsimmons and then back to both gondolas.  They ran through all the lifts, where everything was and pretty much the same instructions for all of them.

After all that, our group talked about this meet and greet at the Merlin's bar at 6pm.  Apparently it was going to be mostly lifties and then some ziptrek people at 10pm.  This other girl and I were both 18 and when we asked the Supervisors if we can go, they agreed allowed us to, it was pretty sick experience knowing that people are so chill here.  So we all got off work around 2pm, I picked up the bike and stuff and headed back.  Me and this other girl both lived in the residence so we got up together, had some drinks and headed down with other two to the bar.  Not much of the entire "new" lifties showed up, it was just pretty much us and about 5-7 new lifties.  Rest were old timers that worked here previous seasons.  We all had beer, chatted and good time all around.  I headed back around 10pm to go to bed and get ready for next day's dry run

Friday

Got down the blackcomb locker room at 7am.  Swiped in and we all were ready to go.  Everyone was stationed on blackcomb lifts and there was about 5-8 of us for each station.  We were basically just shadowing the lead hands and learning what to do. 

However there wasn't really anyone using the lift that day other than employees and skiiers that had special access to glacier.  My group was at the bottom of Solar coaster and we pretty much just set up the visitor fences and chilled.  Later we got word of a gravel truck coming in and we had to shovel and spread gravel.  Once the truck came in, it dumped loads and loads of gravel.  It took 8 of us nearly two to three hours to shovel all the gravel and place it properly. 

The whole work was tiring and we all wished to never do it again.  Near the end, some people from top of wizard came to help and made the job a bit easier on us.

We all headed down around 12:30pm and had lunch at Mcdonalds.  Came back to the merlin's bar to have our examination at 2:00pm.  It was necessary to get above 80% if we wanted to pass and be a liftie.  They allowed cheating too so we all copied answers and basically everyone passed the test hehe.

 Saturday

So today was an off-day for me since I start work tomorrow on sunday.  I went up at 11 to the glacier to ski.  It was nice but still quite foggy overall.  The park wasn't fully set up so there was a lot of features I couldn't hit.  I snuck into another camp's park and stayed there the whole time hehe.  It was a really fun day but they only opened for 3 hours for any public skiing.  Here are some pictures below that I've taken  on my phone: