Happy Australia Day!!! Everyone is getting excited about celebrating Australia Day away from home and plans underway for a great day. The hottest 100 will be playing in town so will be heading down town for the night to listen to triple J.

Over the last few weeks I have managed to get a few trips away. We went to Kicking Horse, which had 15cm of snow overnight so it was an awesome day. Managed to get to Banff for a night and see another town, which was nice after being in the same spot for the last 3 months!!

Taking a break with the fellows at Kicking Horse

Last week I took a 2 day introductory avalanche course. The first day involved the theory and youtube videos (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6qVwIuznFW0) followed by a day in the backcountry learning how to navigate through and identify avalanches.

Hiking out into the backcountry for the avalanche course

Setting up avalanche test

Testing avalanche conditions

Practising digging someone out after an avalanche

One of my mates managed to get access to an ice fishing hut on the lake. So we organised a day and headed out onto the frozen lake for some ice fishing. We managed to catch a couple of fish and the bloke that owns the hut came down and gutted the fish, which we then cooked on the stove in the hut. A great Canadian tradition ticked.

Work is going well with the resort about to get busy with a few public holidays coming up. There is good snow forecasted through until mid feb so hoping for plenty of pow days coming up. Hope everyone is doing well and enjoys Australia day.