tseeb
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Two days skiing here down and two to go. Whistler reported 4" on Tues and 7" on Mon (and 8" on Sun and 10" on Sat according to OpenSnow). I heard it was very crowded Fri and Sat. Mon was busy and Tues was a little less. My wife who flew into Vanouver on Sat and skied Mon with a too big intermediate group led by an instructor from Tremblant. Group was split in the afternoon and she went with the upper group and got into some tough terrain with bad visibility so she quit at 2 and got led down mountain by DanoT who needed to check on his dog. She was in a better group Tuesday with 5 intermediates including the leader.
Warning to UT: EpicSki and PugSki voted to return to UT for annual Gathering based on Snowbasin being added to MCP and Alta and Snowbird being separated so you get two days at each and no longer pay 1/2 of combined ticket price, even if skiing after Alta has closed for the season.
Tony Crocker led group that included the Gathermeister, who is an instructor at Whistler and her brother from Victoria into a lot of the good stuff near top of Whistler on Mon. He used Horseshoe Bowl to see if members of the group were ready for more difficult lines and a few of them declined to do the cornice entry. I was first off cornice and did about an 8' drop into powder and hip checked the landing. Everybody else went for an easier entrance (shown)
Tony Crocker in the 4" new. Maybe there was a cm to in conversion error?
except guy in picture, who is an instructor at Kimberly and was getting big air all day and landing them.
After an early lunch, Tony Crocker led us into West Cirque and into the Cockalorum entrance to West Bowl. We finished the day with a lap on Symphony and multiple laps on Harmony where their tracking shows us loading a minute after the 3 pm close. We skied to base about 3:30 using Dave Murray downhill and other runs with 24.5K according to their tracking.
On Tues, I got into Blackcomb Glacier area three times. We started on Whistler, but after two runs on Big Red, the group leader, from NY who is living here for the season and has 62 days skiing here so far this year, decided to use Peak2Peak to move to Blackcomb rather than brave what he thought would be poor visibility at top of Whistler. The first run was Diamond Bowl where snow was good at top, them a little scraped of where it narrowed in middle before getting good again towards bottom. The second lap he was going to repeat Diamond with other people who joined our group so I led 6 people into adjacent Ruby Bowl which is much wider and where snow was very good. When they opened T-bar to top a guy I rode chair with and I were able to get into Sapphire Bowl from the Blowhole although visibility made route-finding tough. After the meeting and vote, I led my wife and another intermediate from top of Jersey Cream to bottom of Solar Coaster, then I got a lap on each of those chairs before skiing down slowly with some EpicSkiers. I got to base at 4:30 with 25.4K
Edited above where I had Harmony and Symphony reversed on Mon when we had six laps on Harmony and one on Symphony.
Warning to UT: EpicSki and PugSki voted to return to UT for annual Gathering based on Snowbasin being added to MCP and Alta and Snowbird being separated so you get two days at each and no longer pay 1/2 of combined ticket price, even if skiing after Alta has closed for the season.
Tony Crocker led group that included the Gathermeister, who is an instructor at Whistler and her brother from Victoria into a lot of the good stuff near top of Whistler on Mon. He used Horseshoe Bowl to see if members of the group were ready for more difficult lines and a few of them declined to do the cornice entry. I was first off cornice and did about an 8' drop into powder and hip checked the landing. Everybody else went for an easier entrance (shown)
On Tues, I got into Blackcomb Glacier area three times. We started on Whistler, but after two runs on Big Red, the group leader, from NY who is living here for the season and has 62 days skiing here so far this year, decided to use Peak2Peak to move to Blackcomb rather than brave what he thought would be poor visibility at top of Whistler. The first run was Diamond Bowl where snow was good at top, them a little scraped of where it narrowed in middle before getting good again towards bottom. The second lap he was going to repeat Diamond with other people who joined our group so I led 6 people into adjacent Ruby Bowl which is much wider and where snow was very good. When they opened T-bar to top a guy I rode chair with and I were able to get into Sapphire Bowl from the Blowhole although visibility made route-finding tough. After the meeting and vote, I led my wife and another intermediate from top of Jersey Cream to bottom of Solar Coaster, then I got a lap on each of those chairs before skiing down slowly with some EpicSkiers. I got to base at 4:30 with 25.4K
Edited above where I had Harmony and Symphony reversed on Mon when we had six laps on Harmony and one on Symphony.