All blog posts tagged with mt. cain

Cole's Notes - Episode 1

Posted February 27, 2012

This is a new feature here at citizenclass.  My incredible six year old, Cole, is going to tell us about his weekend.  Expect to hear from Cole 3-4 times per year with regular instalments of "Cole's Notes"!

Well, when I was going up the tee-bar, I got hit by it just when Elijah was coming up the t…

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Bad decisions

Posted January 9, 2012

The Canadian Avalanche Association describes a Size 1 avalanche as relatively harmless to people with a mass of 10 tonnes, a run of 10 metres and a force of 10 kilopascals.  The CAA describes a Size 2 avalanche as on that could "bury, injure or kill a person".  Typically with a mass of 100 tonnes, a…

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Satisfaction

Posted December 12, 2011

My favourite Vancouver Island ski hill, Mt. Cain, opened for the season this Saturday (December 10th, 2011).  I swear that place is a bubble of happiness.  I am satisfied because:

a.  I helped get the upper tee-bar open by shovelling hard-packed snow onto bare patches Saturday morning (and was one…

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Happy Endings

Posted September 28, 2011

I don't normally get to mix business with pleasure, but today was a pleasing exception.  I am currently working with my favourite ski hill, Mt. Cain, to design and build a new sewage treatment and disposal system.  Today was made all the better by the fact that I pulled my son out of school and took…

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