Always something at the transfer station..............

 

Lift Evac Training with Primrose

Thanks to Sofia, Mitch and Primrose for the photos.

The chairlifts have back up gas engines. They are started up and tested regularly before the lifts open. Before a major power upgrade to Baldy, I was on the Eagle when a major power outage occurred. The back up motor ran the chair at a slower speed, but we all got to the top and safely unloaded.

Lift evacuation training is required every year. A well practiced procedure for an unlikely event.

Ski Patrol takes the lead, but many other staff are also included in the training. Primrose works in Food and Beverage, but it looks like she enjoyed the experience yesterday.

Rope is shot up over the cable, and a "seat" is raised to the person on the chair.

The passenger slides the seat between their legs, and pushes away from the chair as directed.

Prim is starting to enjoy the descent.

Ground crew being trained and assisted in assuring a slow, controlled descent.

 

Film Night

 

Craft Fair in Oliver

Check out the craft fair, then enjoy the Warren Miller movie in the Baldy Bar. ticket price is the same as the movie in Penticton, but you get to enjoy it in the cosy bar, with friends, beverages and appies. Trailer posted below - check the BMR website for tickets, space is limited.

 

Official Trailer for Warren Miller’s SNO-CIETY | Warren Miller Entertainment - Baldy Bar November 22nd

Show time 7:00pm

Warren Miller 2025 - $20 per person.

Colder, Snowier December?

https://www.cnn.com/2025/11/19/weather/polar-vortex-cold-snowy-december-stratosphere 

Clean up of Slash piles

Thank-you S H for shovelling the edges of the fire by the Baldy Road, and calling me about it. I don't travel that route enough to know when that slash pile was originally ignited.

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The OIB forestry team lit some old slash piles, and have been checking them, including last night.

Monday Night Storm

I thought the noisy wet precip was never going to stop last night, but it did at some point, and we have a dense coating of 5cms new snow this morning.

Storm from last 36 ish hours settled to 15cms of heavy wet snow

 

Next round of snow expected starting Sunday evening.

Transition Industries has hand built  features at Moose Mountain for an event today- using the limited snow they have. The more snow we have when TN arrives here, the bigger the smile he will have.

Happy to wake up to snow!

The drive back from town yesterday was awful - hard to see the edge of the road in places. I don't have a curtain on my loft window so I can see if it is snowing without lifting my head. Happy to see the snow this morning.

With the launch of the new BMR website, and so much information on one page, I am expecting fewer phone calls. I will update the weather daily, and when it is snowing big time in the evening, I will post that.

I took on the blog almost 16 years ago when the community wanted more timely information, and the manager of the day did not have the resources/funds to provide that.

The younger folks are all about Facebook. Personally, I am not a fan of Facebook - people post things that they have not researched, or would not say if they were looking the person in the eye. I am not the journalist in the family, but I do endeavor to get timely, accurate information posted.

There are times when I wonder why I am still doing this - when people ask me for information that is already on the blog.

I have a core group of followers who are not on Facebook, and/or  rely on this source to know what is happening on the mountain when they are living or travelling far from here.