Well I made it out of Doha and have been working here for a month now. The work itself is pretty simple, clearing snow so that the ski lifts move, making sure customers don’t get smashed in the face by said ski lifts when they either fall over or completely fail to judge just how fast a ski lift is moving and end up skiing into it, falling over and then panicking as the next one comes along. The complete failure of some people to realise that ski lifts don’t wait until they are ready is quite baffling sometimes. They will queue up behind others, watch them successfully get onto the lift, all they have to do is slide forward a few metres, look behind them for the lift and then sit down when it comes up behind them. But somehow in that short space of time between queuing and sliding into position they will completely forget what they are there for and either look around at the scenery and other skiers, start asking me where I’m from, or whether they can come down the slope that is clearly marked “Danger – Avalanche are imminent” (sic) or even just chatting with the pers.. BAM! the ski lift hits them in the back of the legs completely taking them by surprise and on humourous occasions knocking them over. I do wonder what they thought was going to happen when they stood in the path of the ski lift, it really isn’t that difficult to use.
Anyway, I’ve been working on a video to show you my daily commute but a combination of my snowboarding ability, remembering to take a camera with a fully charged battery to work, Windows movie maker randomly crashing and poor weather have delayed this slightly. However here is a short video to show how bad the weather can get. This day wasn’t the worst but is typical of the weather going home in the evening. Snowboarding when you can’t see the snow is hard and as you can probably see I was using the edge of the mountain to gauge where I was and how fast I was going. I’ve also take out the sound and added some music, because blowing wind wasn’t very pleasant to listen to. Music is Gorillaz – White Light.
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