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To his credit MacDonald accepted the offer and was able to make not one but two trades live with TV personality George Stoumboulopoulos. The second trade was with Bruno Taillefer who accepted the SnoRiders West winter get-a-way for a Cintas cube van. MacDonald actually drove cross-country in the cube van and was able to deliver our snowmobile in person. Thanks, Kyle—you exceeded our wildest expectations!

SnoRiders makes the official trade with Kyle MacDonald. Pictured from left to right are Kerry Shellborn and Jeff Cooper of SnoRiders West and Kyle MacDonald.	25 snowmbilers made the 100-kilometer trip from Cranbrook to Yahk including members of the Cranbrook snowmobile club and five riders from Yahk who came to join the adventure.
Kyle MacDonald (right) and photojournalist Jeff Cooper just before take-off at 10:00 am on Thursday February 9, 2006	A member of the Cranbrook snowmobile club shows off his riding skills and a glimpse of the beautiful scenery we saw along the trip.
The group stops for lunch and some animated discussion along side a small creek.	SnoRiders West's own sledding personality, Cora Tschetters, joined us for the ride. Tschetters will later ride the British Columbia leg of the Polaris WOW relay to raise money and awareness for breast cancer research.
Two young Cranbrook riders, Scott During (left) and Stan Hogg take a break during the ride.	Bruno Taillefer (left) and Garry Jecrois stand atop an old forestry lookout. From that vantage point we could view three U.S. states to the south as well as the majestic Rocky mountains to the North.
The SnoRiders team unloads the now famous one red paperclip snowmobile, the 1992 Mach I Ski-Doo that Kyle MacDonald personally delivered in his cube van to Yahk.	George Stroumboulopoulos struts his stuff in front of a CBC camera and over 250 people who crammed into the Yahk community centre to be on hand during the live taping of "The Hour."
An entire hockey team, the Creston Thundercats, came to Yahk in their team bus to take in the event. They gave George Sroumboulopoulos a jersey which he wore for a portion of his live broadcast.	MacDonald drew fans to Yahk from as far away as Seattle, Washington. This group of fans had been following the red paperclip trades via the internet and showed up in Yahk sporting the fashionable red paperclip t-shirts shown here.
Dan Plamondon of Powder Hounds snowmobile tours keeps warm in Yahk with his own personal heater—a pomeranian pooch.	The Red Paperclip team hits the slopes at the Kimberley Alpine Resort for a day of skiing and snowboarding.
Garry Jecrois, one of the Cintas traders, shows off his form during a snowboarding lesson.	Authentic Bavarian cuisine at the Old Bauernhaus was the perfect ending to a wonderful Kootenay adventure. The entire red paperclip team wined and dined in this 350-year-old former Bavarian farm house. It was taken apart, transported and reconstructed at its present location in Kimberley "The Bavarian City of the Rockies."

We at SnoRiders West would like to thank those who helped us put together the winter get-a-way package for Kyle and his trading partners.

Thanks to Bruno Taillefer and Garry Jecrois of Cintas, who traded their great looking cube van for our winter get-away package to Yahk and the Kootenays; to Dan & Chris Plamondon of Powder Hounds snowmobile tours, who outfitted Kyle MacDonald and his trading partners during the snowmobile tour; to Lonnie Schick at the Trickle Creek Residence Inn, who provided first class accommodations for Kyle MacDonald, Bruno Taillefer and Garry Jecrois; to Patti Thompson of Kelsey’s Restaurant, who invited the Red Paperclip crew for lunch during their ski day; to Chris Elder at Kimberley Alpine Resort, who provided rentals and passes for a day on the slopes; and to Michelle and Nils Fuhge, owners of The Old Bauernhaus, who provided a Baviarian meal in a centuries-old European log home that was transported from Europe to the Kootenay Rockies!

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