Every Tuesday we are going to try to bring to you our best (and hopefully most humorous) stories from the front desk.

Here at Douglas Fir Resort we just love the front desk comments that they receive from some of our guests and wanted to share them with you.

The Top Three For April 20th -April26th

3. How do you turn the fire on?

2. You mean you have no rooms? Not even in the specialty suites? What about the chalets? Nothing? Ok, I'll call back later...

1. Man inquiring about the tunnel in Tunnel Mountain. I drove up and down the mountain looking for the tunnel in Tunnel Mountain but we couldn't find it.

Tunnel mountain got it's name from a surveyor Major A.B. Rogers, when he suggseted to CPR that the easiest path for the railway to take would be the construction of a 275 m (902 ft) tunnel through the tiny mountain. An alternative route north of the mountain was found, which incidentally shortened the railway by a mile, and avoided two long hills, saving the CPR millions of dollars. Surveyor Charles Shaw described the idea as the most extraordinary blunder I have ever known in the way of engineering. The idea of a tunnel was scrapped altogether, but the mountain is still called Tunnel Mountain to this day. The Stoney people had long called the mountain "Sleeping Buffalo", as it resembles a sleeping buffalo when viewed from the north and east.

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