Our People | Barbara Rose
Her work with the government took her all over parts up North, in the Northwest Territories and the Yukon, to represent the territorial interests in a national SAR framework. Between her transitory upbringing and her work, Barbara never had a true place she called home. Until, that is, she moved to Revelstoke in 2003, and fell in love with mountains again.
Right around then, she answered an ad from someone asking for help cleaning up a database. That “someone” was Mica Heliskiing, which was also new on the scene. Barbara was ready for a change of pace, something totally different. She took the job. And she hasn’t looked back since. As one of Mica’s many early staff who are still with us—Lead Guide Rob Turner, Guiding Manager Shane Kroeger, Director Paul Norrie and Buyer Nikki Norrie—she’s an enormous part of what makes our culture less like an enterprise and more like a family.
Now, as Director of Lodge Operations, Mica wouldn’t run quite the same without her. At the same time, her days up at the lodge are hard to define with any sort of repetition—except, of course, her morning walk with Dughal, our lodge dog (well, Barbara’s dog, obviously, but we consider him perhaps the most favorite member of our family, too). She can usually be found wherever extra help is needed in the mornings, from filling in on the radio dispatch to hitting the dish pit in the kitchen to folding the endless supply of laundry. Afternoons, she’s running the big-picture logistics that keep the Mica wheels spinning. Evening time she's recommending wine pairings and catching up with guests, many of whom she has now shared over a decade of friendship with. In fact, there's pretty much nothing that Barbara hasn't done at the lodge.
"I think other than fly a helicopter or deliver a baby, there's not much. Although, one of these days I'm sure a pregnant woman will show up at the lodge," she jokes.
The thing is, if it ever came down to delivering babies, we'd trust Barbara to handle it. In fact, we'd add it to our list above, right under working for the Defense department. She's just that capable of a Renaissance woman.
