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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 [...]
Split boarding
Tuesday, February 26th, 2008A couple of weeks back, three friends and I spent two days split-boarding with Whistler Mountain Guides.
Split boards (as you can probably guess) split down the middle so that you can transform them into skis. When in snowboard form, there are metal plates going across the board that you can slide ordinary snowboard bindings onto [...]
Holiday with the boys
Friday, February 15th, 2008Quick update: yesterday Dave and I went back to work after a lovely holiday in Whistler and Vancouver.
Stuart and Andrew arrived on 29th January, and Dave took three days off work while I toiled for a wage. They were very jet-lagged and had some moochy days in Vancouver shopping and eating, plus a cloudy no-vis day [...]
Demo boards; and friends on a powder day
Monday, January 28th, 2008Yes, we went to Whistler again. Of course we did.
On Saturday we had an overcast day with light (by Whistler standards) snowfall, which refreshed the slopes nicely after a dry, sunny week. We had a fairly leisurely Saturday - a slow start, and then we spent the morning trying out snowboards from the Showcase demo [...]
Whistler freeride camp
Friday, January 25th, 2008Last weekend Dave and I signed up for the Quiksilver freeride/ freestyle camp. (It’s only called Quiksilver because they sponsor it and you get a free T shirt.) It was $140 each for the two days of the camp (because it’s Discover Whistler 40% off at the moment), which is a pretty good deal already. We weren’t [...]
Whistler powder
Thursday, January 10th, 2008There is So Much Snow here at the moment and more to come! It’s good and bad news though - the storms have also brought high winds, so the avalanche risk is through the roof; and the closed in weather has meant some challenging riding conditions.
On Saturday Dave and I used our Fresh Tracks tickets [...]
Weekend on the North Shore
Wednesday, January 9th, 2008[Originally blogged on www.powderrroom.net]
What with having Whistler season pass we haven’t been visiting the North Shore mountains much - having to pay for day tickets, pah! - but the weekend after Christmas we did some exploring.
Vancouver has three local ski hills on the North Shore - from West to East, Cypress Mountain, Grouse Mountain, and Mount [...]
A Christmas gift of Whistler powder
Thursday, December 27th, 2007My 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 [...]
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