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Drill Bits and Dynamite Part Six ...The Start of Cut 10

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Lucky for me...very, very lucky for me, as the Sea to Sky job progressed, it got steadily more complex and challenging. If I would have been faced with all the impossible tasks, right off the hop, I would have just melted into a little puddle of sweat. I had faith in myself and the people working with me, that given the tools and the ability to be creative, all the technical issues could be tamed.  Cut 10, was the next impossible task. Situated above an active railway, and ocean, below a busy main highway...it was a huge step up in complexity. Doing major damage to the tracks was a no-no. There were scheduled trains, both freight and passenger everyday. The railroad company had no sense of ha-ha about having their property buried in blast rock just so we could build a new road to the Olympics in Whistler. Just getting road building machines to the start of the job was tough enough. High and nearly vertical bluffs from both approaches, coupled with threatening overhangs, cause...