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It’s not all sweats n’ giggles around here, we have to get serious every so often. Feb 27 was our most recent BCMSS board meeting where we review our budget, expenses and upcoming plans with full attendance from the BoD: VP Adrian Sinclair, Heidi Nagtegaal, George Rahi and myself. Here’s a nice photo of the BoD happily concluding the meeting:

After the meeting we had a good sweat to test out the newest sauna in our fleet which we will probably call the tent sauna. We should probably do a post about that but for now here’s a photo of the benches:

This year’s BCMSS newsletter is ready, we’ll be emailing it out shortly. You can also download it here

Our friend Jen at Shaw TV just finished a video segment on the sauna Truck featuring Karlis Kalnins and Adrian Sinclair.

As per tradition we celebrated New Years Day with a sweat commemorating our 13th January 1 saunasession. Some of the crew posed for an after-sweat photo, you can tell there’s some steam involved.

Here’s Megan and Sauna Chicken learning how to fire up the sauna. Yesterday we relocated our Gabriola Island sauna outstation to a new residency at Megan’s place. Sauna Chicken came by but was a bit too enthusiastic and tried to climb up into the stove. Whoa, the sauna door is at the back, buddy! That’s what happens when you miss the first part of the tour. Also, feathers and fur are not permitted in the sauna.

 

 

You might think it’s all sweat and games here at the BC Mobile Sauna Society, but being mobile sometimes means going where no sauna has gone before. Last week our sauna site prep team took down a fence and did some aggressive fig tree pruning to get our new location ready for sauna season. It’s one of the nicest and most central locations we’ve ever been and we’re very excited to move the truck in and get our sweat on.

Here’s Adrian pondering the next move in our latest contruction project. Our new spring residency at the Rainbow Connection has been very exciting to say the least but the entrance connection to the sauna needed some work. It’s a complicated affair, with the grubby alley, the loading bay and the parking limitations. We decided at a docking bridge from the loading bay right to the sauna door would work best in the circumstances. We added some handrails and on Sunday nights we rig up a privacy screen so it’s right from the sauna into the loading bay and thence the shower. It’s actually very lovely. Thanks to the RC crew for all their understanding and support during our residency! Next month we’ll start our (partial) summer hiatus, but first there’s some work to be done on the Hino.