With the changeable weather our course co-ordinator Dave Richards (the hardest working man in Fernie) has had his work cut out trying to arrange a number of weather dependent activites before the end of the course. But we did get a bit of new snow last week and a cat skiing day was quickly organised.

Grand entertainment it was. The idea with cat skiing is that you go uphill in a giant snow cat (see above) and then go downhill through untracked slopes far away from the lifts and crowds of the ski hill. The skiing was great - not scary steep but varied and interesting and swooshing through virgin pow is always fun even if its only a few cms deep. We got about 8 runs through the day with much banter and amusement in between in the cat rides back up.

- Stuart shows the way.