Red Mt ski instructor course – week 1 diary

^{Here’s the latest from Rob in Red Mountain on the first week of our instructor course…}

^{Monday 9th Jan}

^{After a 9 hours flight, a transfer flight and a 4-hour drive to Red we made it!}

^{First impressions…. Its COLD but all worth it! Met Mark and Jon, our course hosts and were shown to our ridiculously nice apartments with the added extra of a hot tub on the balcony! Introductions were done and it was an early night for all.}

^{Tuesday 10th Jan}

^{After a well deserved lie-in in the comfort of our huge comfy beds we all met up with Jon and took the huge yellow Nonstop bus down to Rossland for a little tour…the gym, fererros foods, ski shops and most importantly the pubs and liquor stores!}

^{A slap up meal had been arranged at the Prestige Hotel along with a welcome speech from Mark and our instructors to be, Brent, Jon, Tad and Matt.}

^{Wednesday 11th Jan}

^{First day on the snow! I think we were all looking forward to this! After a slightly daunting speech from Mark about bears and the dangers of falling asleep outside (you WILL die) we were off. Skiers and Snowboarders split up and we had the day to find our ski legs and explore Granite and Red Mountain.}

^{In the evening we had our first meal at the sunshine café in town…Good tucker!}

^{Thursday 12th Jan}

^{Second day on the snow…Loads more skiing and boarding finishing the day off with our group meal at sunshine. Still slightly tired from traveling it was another early night with the excitement for a lie in!}

^{Friday 13th Jan}

^{Bacon and Eggs for breakfast! Checked in at home then it was off for a few hours in the snow, hooked up with Pete and threw ourselves down Old Granite Tower for a challenge…stopped at the bottom for a rest…ski patrol thought we were injured! Ha! A good day seeing as it was Friday 13th.}

^{Saturday 14th}

^{Another lie in then it was off on one of our activity credits. A group of us headed out to Nancy Greene Lake with G.I Jon for a spot of snow shoe-ing. A beautiful trek around the lake rounded off with grilled cheese sandwiches, hot chocolate and baileys in a log cabin.}

^{Getting back around 2pm we popped to town for a few supplies then it was off to Rafters Pub and a party with the others…the rest is history!!!}

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