Red Mountain 11-week instructor course diary – week 7

The Red Mountain crew have been out and about this weekend. Here’s Chantelle’s summary of the proceedings:

Another weekend has gone by and we’re having an awesome time here in Red Mountain! So much planned, so much to do… we had our credit activity this weekend, where we ventured across the Monashee Mountains to a place called Nelson, in the Selkirk Mountains. Whilst there we went to Ainsworth Hot Springs, spending a couple of hours in the 40 degrees celsius waters of the Cody Caves and the plunge pool of 5 degrees Celsius (which is mighty cold when you’ve been in the hot springs for more than 20 minutes or so). Then on to the 30-35 degree outside pool, which is nice after the hot springs. Later on we went for dinner at a pub near the ferry port, where Stacey treated us to some appetizers… “Appies” as they’re called in Canada. While we dined we watched the ferry come and go, taking vehicles to another port. We then travelled through Nelson, looking at those nice stores… mmmm… anyway before I stray from the subject of shops, we checked into the hostel ‘Dancing Bear Inn’ before checking out more shops…mmmm… there we go again shops. They vary from knick-knack shops, ski and snowboard shops, urban and hippy stores to cafes and pubs. Time was getting on and, before long, it was beer o’clock, so some of the NONSTOPers went to Mike’s Pub where we had a range of beer and pub food. Meanwhile, the other half of the group went to experience the local Indian restauarant, before reforming with the group for beer, pool and darts. After that we went to experience a bit of Nelson nightlife and rolled in around 1-2am to recharge the batteries.

Our wake-up call was at around 7am, so the group were feeling a little worse for wear. On the way to ‘Whitewater Ski Hill’, we stopped to get breakfast and coffee, which helped to relieve most of our sore heads. Oso Negro fine Coffee Bar was recommended by our AMAZING instructor Matt Briggs and AWESOME organiser Stacey Cleaveley. We then had a NONSTOP day of skiing and snowboarding and on the way home to Rossland we were shattered, but feeling better with the cobwebs of the night before blown away.