It's 9.38 on the 10th July. We're about halfway through our stay here in Victoria which, as always, has gone so fast. Today I'll write about Tuesday, Wednesday and Thursday. I got up Tuesday at about 7.20 and went down to the park to do my usual routine of pull-ups, press-ups, squats etc., getting back by 8.30 to write my previous blog. From then until about 10 the others began to wake up and emerge from the bedroom. Everyone made themselves breakfast and we discussed what to do that day. It was still this funny kind of smokey overcast - not quite cloudy but not quite blue skies, so we decided to wait for a properly sunny day before we headed down to the lake. As we'd been into the city the day before it seemed ... read more

It's 10.47 on the 4th July. I think, after all of the excitement of Beaverfoot and travelling, this will be a shorter blog. I hope so anyway, the last few took me at least an hour and a half to write and another couple of hours to upload all the photos. So we woke up pretty late on Tuesday morning, having had very little sleep the previous 3 nights for whatever reason. It was the 1st of July, which was Canada day, so Donna and Bob had the day off. We emerged from our room at about noon, and had some breakfast. The first thing we were to do that day was to head down to the local supermarket to buy some food for the next few days. So, once everyone was showered and awake, we ... read more

It's 14.40 on 2nd of July. I had already spent an hour or two writing a pretty long entry about the next three days - Thursday, Friday, Saturday - but unfortunately my phone deleted my notes, so I lost everything. So, I guess all I can do is 'start again at my beginnings/ and never breath a word about my loss' in the words of the Rudyard Kipling poem on my wall at home. I probably won't write in quite as much detail this time around, however. So, Thursday. Thursday was Josh's birthday, so we all wished him a happy birthday in the morning - but it was still a normal working day for everyone as usual. In the morning, Matt, Josh and I begun by moving furniture and scrap wood around the site in the ... read more

It's 14.44 on the 24th of June. In this blog I will write about our last 2 working days of the week, and then our day off on Sunday. We got up Friday morning at the usual time. As I entered the dining room Rico asked me if I could give him a hand with doing the dump run in Golden that morning. I agreed, as it would be good to get out of the Lodge for a while. So we jumped in the flatbed truck that was already loaded up with a mountain of bin bags and secured with a slightly sketchy looking tarp. We began up the logging road on the way to the highway that took us into Golden and, just before we hit the main road, was stopped by a phone call ... read more

It's 14.10 on 20th June. We have now been at the lodge for 5 days, and in this blog I will write about the first 3 full days we have spent there. Monday night the temperature dropped pretty low, and I had underestimated the amount of clothes I needed to wear in bed, so I was woken up several times by the cold. Weirdly, it was my face primarily that was particularly chilly - which was a novel and fairly unpleasant sensation - I guess because it was the only thing that wasn't wrapped up in my sleeping bag. We didn't need to be up until about 10am however as work didn't start until 11am, which made a nice change from the 7am get up at MSF. I came out to my cabin to a bit ... read more

It's 21.16 on the 17th June. So in this blog I will write about our time staying in Banff, as well as our arrival at Beaverfoot Lodge. We woke up at a reasonable time on Saturday morning, as I guess is usually the case when camping. We didn't have any lilos or roll-matts so we were straight onto the floor from our sleeping bags - consequently we were all a little stiff. In any case, the hot shower and the incredible view more than made up for it. We slowly got ready and headed down to the free bus into the town - getting there by about 11. From there we bought a coffee and s sandwich, and headed to the information office to find out which hike was the best to do. We finally settled ... read more