Winter Mountain Lifestyle

So, to digress from the cabin focus for a little while.

In other news....I'm thinking about doing a bit of skate ski racing this year. I think I've actually only done one ski race in my life. It nearly killed me....and I was a younger man in better shape then. Altough the long locks may have slowed me down.

I have to be careful not to get caught up in the glamour of it all though. I mean triathlon is bad enough. The world of XC ski racing can get way out of hand, as revealed in the attched documentary.

See ya on the trails.

Progress Continues

I guess I can't really complain about the pace of work at the cabin lately. If I was nearly as persistant at this blog I would have a novel by now.

The place is coming along, just a bit slower than I anticipated. Of course the winter weather has had a big impact. I wrote earlier about peeling logs and how tough a job that would be. Now freeze the log solid in -30 degrees for a week or so and go at it. There's still about 15 logs to peel and it's a tough go.

Otherwise, progress has been steady, however my expectations of skiing at Kicking Horse this February are out the window, but if it's a late spring I may be in luck.

BC Hydro was supposed to be by this week to hook up power. That should help, as some days it's so cold they can't get the crane going. An outlet to plug into would really help the deisel. That's another issue with working in the cold.

Of course, once you get the crane going you're trying to hook into frozen logs. They use these hooks that dig into the logs to pick them up. The hooks basically dig in under the weight of the wood. Of course when the log is frozen they don't dig in so well.

So now I have a pretty good hole in the floor as they dropped a log. Luckily it was not a full round or it would have gone to the basement. I think it was just an 8 ft lenght. It just made a 6"x6" dent though the floor. It can be fixed fairly easily, but I shutter to think just how much damage it would cause if it landed on someone's foot.