Archive for April, 2008
Avalanche Skills Training Level 1
Friday, April 25th, 2008Over the Easter weekend, Dave and I took the Avalanche Skills Training Level 1 course run by Whistler Alpine Guides Bureau. It involved two evenings in the classroom and two days on the mountain, including some backcountry powder turns.
We’d booked split boards for the course, but unfortunately they were needed by someone else, so we [...]
Brr
Wednesday, April 23rd, 2008It’s been unseasonably cold in BC recently. We went up for the closing weekend of Whistler Mountain (Blackcomb is still open until June), expecting some slushy spring conditions. We woke up on Saturday to temperatures of -9C in the village and -18C on the mountain.
Brr!
The last run of the day, down the Saddle, was so [...]
Catch-up
Tuesday, April 8th, 2008This is another one of those ‘Phew, I have time to stop and take a breath, blimey haven’t blogged in a while’ posts.
At Easter we did an Avalanche Skills Training course in Whistler, which involved going into the backcountry (up on snowshoes, down on snowboards) and learning how scary and dangerous the terrain is. I [...]