After spending the night in Hudson’s Hope, we made our way this morning along miles of dusty prairie routes and logging roads to the work camp. Logging trucks coming the other way encapsulated our vehicles with road dust that reduced visibility to near blindness. It was an instantaneous “white out” that cleared slowly once the truck passed, but the few seconds of blindness were unnerving and in my mind I envisioned unseen corners and stopped vehicles during those moments.The camp is a series of portable buildings consisting of a kitchen, lounges and sleepers. The sleepers are divided into 2 units per trailer with a laundry room in the middle. Each unit has 2 bedrooms, 2 sinks, a toilet, and a shower. The bedrooms are about 8 feet wide by 8 feet long and contain two beds, a cupboard, and a small TV. I currently have a bedroom to myself, and am sharing a unit with a guy on my crew.
The lounges have TV’s, exercise bikes, and one has a foosball table. The kitchen serves 3 meals a day; breakfast between 6 and 8AM, lunch from 11AM to 1PM, and dinner from 6PM to 8PM. Camp is in Mountain Daylight Savings Time (same as Calgary), but Hudson’s Hope is in Mountain Standard Time, which is the same as Pacific Daylight Savings Time (like Vancouver). It’s a bit confusing, and it made us late for lunch.
The equipment arrives tomorrow morning and we start work directly.
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