At Vals we have a little hut called the 'Caboose' in the hut there are facilities to make hot drinks and numerous boxes of manfood. If you wish you can also stay the night and the Caboose if you feel the need for some personnel space away from base.
With the strong winds and continuing snowfall the Caboose slowly gets buried and ends up in a big hole. So every couple of weeks it is one of my jobs to relocate it on level ground. I commandeered Jim the boatman and Kenny the Genny mech to get off base for the afternoon and give me a hand.
Firstly we had to break the skis from the ice using a hydraulic jack, then groom a ramp for the Caboose to be pulled up. Then by attaching a think steel wire rope via some heavy duty shackles we pulled the Caboose out of its hole and relocated it.
It came out better than expected and the whole job took us only about two hours from start to finish.
On the way back down to base i spotted a lonely skidoo. The skidoo belonged to Mark Gorin, Steve Boulton, and Dickie Hall who had gone climbing for the day on Reptile Ridge.I just couldn't help myself!!!!!!!!!!
At least we left them a shovel to dig it out.
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