Ok, so I may have mentioned that Big White is Awesome...? No? Well it is!
Last week it was warm, capital W, warm. And with the warm weather came lots of melt and with lots of melt comes everything buried in the snow, since October. Mostly garbage, the BW community organized a clean up and got to it. Well done everyone!
The Sherriff's played their part to a small degree - Snowbird Way is now has the equivalent of one garbage bag less of garbage lying around - Whoohoo! Unfortunately you cannot tell, Boo! - we will be out again :)
Of course in addition to the trash under the snow there is also Treasure - last year during the season I lost my iPhone :( and I never found it. But I did find a brand new iPhone 4s - all shiny and new, not a scratch on it. Perfect! I put it in a bag of rice (I'd heard this works) and two days later I plugged in the power... it instantly came to life (good old Apple) and instantly I was able to find the owner... in Australia, he was happy, me, less so - I needed a new phone but what can you do?
Actually speaking of Apple their products are quite durable, my daughter put her iPod Nano through the wash and that was fine. And one time I dropped my (first) iPhone in the snow, I found it the next day, and I am sure it would have been fine... if not for being crushed...
Other treasure - unopened beer in the snow, under the chair lifts - and yes, I do drink them - for practical purposes only, the can is much lighter to carry off the mountain without contents...
People. (no I don't find spare people)
There seems to be a lot of people around this year, the last time I ran up the mountain (yes that idiot is me) there must have been 10 others skinning/hiking/snowshoeing up/down. And there are always people at Globe (open everyday except Friday). The first year (2000) we did not see anyone for weeks, we arrived May 11th and that weekend it must have snowed half a metre - we saw a dog and that was it, Saxon (RIP).
Anyhoo... thats it from me for today -
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