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It’s the R, O, I and E in Rollie here, reporting solo once again! My week has been very quiet. I have probably done a bit too much work, but my new job is pretty exciting and there is lots to learn. On Tuesday and Wednesday evening I sent my first commands to a satellite during a couple of passes over the Glasgow ground station. I got the honours as it was 4am in the UK. I didn’t break anything!

I went camping with lots of Australians at the weekend. It was a bit rainy, but one of them had the biggest tarp I had ever seen, so it didn’t matter. Forgot to photograph the tarp, but here is the group photo after we had packed up, and a shot of two of us taking a cold dip in the morning.

The weather has been very nice for a couple of days this week and I have enjoyed walking down to the beach to look at the boats.

I asked Ollie to send me a summary of his ski trip to share with you. Below is what I received. I felt that most of the messages needed further elaboration/translation.

They started their trip at Thom and Hannah’s place in Sun Peaks, which is let out as an AirBnB. As they had stayed there for a couple of nights, there was some cleaning to do before they left (in preparation for actual paying guests arriving at 4pm). They cut it very close to the wire, finishing at 3.57pm, and had to sneak past the guests waiting outside in their car. Fortunately, the guests left a good review, so Thom and Ollie are very proud of themselves. Hmm.

The next day they went to a small mountain near Kamloops, which apparently burns families and has very violent lifts.

Not much to say about Silverstar. I assume some skiing was done, or maybe they flew some kites.

Revelstoke was another luxury stay at a different friend’s apartment, which is also let out as an AirBnB. Partners in Grime Cleaning Co. weren’t trusted here, so they did have to pay the cleaning fee. After a rest day, they did some sliding at Revelstoke ski resort. Ollie appears to be asking me if Revelstoke has the longest vertical descent in Canada, or if that is N/A. I don’t have the answer, sorry Ollie.

After Revelstoke, they apparently drove off-grid and didn’t have any signal for one evening and most of the next day. Hannah and I assumed they were either dead or ghosting us because they had run off together. Luckily they made it back to civilisation in time to complete that day’s Wordle.

On Friday, they went to a red mountain and skied through daffodils with lambs and bunnies. The lambs and bunnies are difficult to avoid and make it a bumpy ride, so the ski resort apologised for that. Also, the resort’s supply of Class A drugs was disrupted and Ollie was annoyed about this.

They have been using swimming pools to shower, so don’t smell as bad as could be expected. Ollie clearly didn’t have high hopes for Thom and Hannah’s lovingly converted white van Elvis, I hope they don’t read this Ollie…

Ollie also underestimated Thom’s ability to drive… but is pleased that he is the passenger for once. I hope Thom piled his belongings on you and demanded that you put music on, set up the maps and google the menu for a restaurant all at once, whilst you were trying not to be sick around bends.

Well Rollie followers, anything else you want to know?