We were up there on Sunday, but high winds closed the lifts…. Monday therefore, was deeeeep! with very few people around.

I was able to steal Sarah’s laptop to process my GoPro footage in all it’s HD goodness:

I also have this from Sunday morning, but this was processed on my aging laptop, so not quite as slick:

Enjoy!

Pretty flat light, cruisy runs, first attempt at filming and editing…. so go easy on me!

Wild West:

I have provided these documents so that members of the public can form their own opinion based on what has been filed in court and not solely on media reports.

My opinion, the opinion of others, links to other sites, media reports, comments, etc will not be included in this post.
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Court File: 1101-01193 – Chevalier, Chevalier, Harper, Conway v Sunshine Village Corporation and Thomas Taylor Scurfield

Statement of Claim (461KB)

(Filed 26th Jan 2011, obtained 9th Mar 2011)

Statement of Defence of the Defendant Sunshine Village Corporation (487KB)

Statement of Defence of the Defendant Thomas Taylor Scurfield (195KB)

(Filed 3rd Mar 2011, obtained 4th Mar 2011)

Reply to Defence – Sunshine Village Corporation (580KB)

Reply to Defence – Thomas Taylor Scurfield (208KB)

(Filed 10th Mar 2011, obtained 14th Mar 2011)

Affidavit of Chris Chevalier (2.6MB)

(Filed 13th Oct 2011, obtained 28th Oct 2011)
This file is a complete image of the document obtained from the court. However, there appears to be one or two missing pages between pages 14 and 15. I will investigate with the court as soon as I can and update the file accordingly.

Decisions of the Court (Obtained from albertacourts.ab.ca):

Decision 2011 ABQB 295 – 29th April 2011

Decision 2011 ABQB 544 – 6th September 2011

Decision 2011 ABQB 557 – 14th September 2011

 
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As soon as I get my hands on a copy i’ll post a review.  In the meantime here’s the review in The Rossland Telegraph.

It will be available on Amazon.ca from Feb 15th.

http://3rdscreenmarketing.blogspot.com/2011/01/even-more-sunshine.html

Next it’s down to Sydney, Australia and my friend Miss Snow It All and her take on this affair:

http://misssnowitall.wordpress.com/2011/01/29/trouble-in-paradise-ski-patrollers-revolt/

I got this link emailed to me from a friend in Queesnstown, New Zealand:

http://www.adventure-journal.com/2011/01/sunshine-village-fires-patrollers-triggers-lawsuit-avalanche-of-anger/

Just goes to show you how far and how quickly news spreads these days!

Oooh, and another update from the Calgary Herald:

http://www.calgaryherald.com/news/Sunshine+Village+owner+middle+labour+troubles+lawsuit/4187087/story.html

The parking lot at the end of the day today

Looks like they lost a bit of snow with the recent warm up.  The snow is a little punchy, but still fun, patches of ice and occasional thin cover.

Currently around 0c and snowing. Low vis. Low wind.. Should be dumping tonight!

All the steeps on lock-down until things clear up.

Shout out to Charlie Locke, the owner of Lake Louise, for the free day of skiing on our Sunshine Village passes today!

Off to Lake Louise today and Sunshine Village tomorrow…… Bring it Ullr!

Story here:  http://bit.ly/hAGJdm

First Sunshine pulled the live Facebook and Twitter feed from thier webpage.

Now Sunshine Village appears to have pulled their Facebook page completely.

While there were some  attacks posted on there, there were some valid questions that remained unanswered.  Lets see how the rest of this unfolds!

Buy one anytime in January and it’s valid until the end of January next year….. So buy on the 1st, get 13 months. Buy on the 31st, get 12 months.

Once it expires most people will wait until their next visit to one of the parks (which could be months later) then buy another.

As I enter Banff National Park every weekend, I thought I’d renew my pass at the Parks Canada office in Banff in advance as it expires at the end of January, less than a week away.

This is the quirk…. you cant renew in advance!  Parks Canada will only issue February passes starting Feb 1st.

So if I buy a pass now, I do get a 12month renewal (to January 2011) but will be holding 2 valid passes for a week.  If I wait till next week I get an extra month.

Surely this is encouraging me to wait or even chance not having a pass.  If my next visit is at a weekend the line-ups at the gate can be huge.

I have the money now, I want to give it to you, why should I forefit a month for being organized? Turning away a customer with cash in hand seems crazy.

So I went to AMA in Calgary to take advantage of the member discount and buy voucher that can be exchanged for a pass on our first visit in February.  I figured that if I have to sit in the line-up at the weekend I may as well take advantage of the discount (which I was willing to forgo at the Parks office).  AMA has always issued me a voucher in the past.

However, this time round they said Parks Canada have forced upon them rules that state they cannot sell a voucher if they still have remaining January passes.

This is turning into a lot of effort for someone who wants to support Parks Canada and stay continually covered by an annual pass.

Maybe it’s about time that Parks Canada issued annual passes that are valid for 12months from the day they are sold.  Or allow renewals 2-weeks early if you present a previous years pass? Just sayin’