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A Christmas gift of Whistler powder

Thursday, December 27th, 2007

My Christmas gift to you blog readers is to let you in on some of the lovely powder we found in Whistler on the weekend before Christmas.

There was an awful lot of snow - but there was also an awful lot of wind and avalanche risk, so on Saturday none of the high lifts were [...]

Report on a group lesson at Whistler

Wednesday, December 12th, 2007

On Saturday, Dave and I took advantage of a season pass holders’ deal to get a snowboarding lesson for only $20 each per half day. This was an ordinary group lesson focusing on technique, rather than the Summit Session we tried a fortnight ago, which focused on exploring the mountain.
All the pupils at levels 3 [...]