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Whistler BlackcombSubmit a report
03/14/16/08 Finally a report from Whistler....Ah where to start, three days all at Blackcomb, Friday through Sunday, cold temps - 2 degrees colder each day in the morning, 14 this morning but it warmed up to varying degrees each day. Friday started with a dusting new and filtered sun for the first couple of hours then a pretty steady snow fall that dropped a couple of inches during the middle of the day. No lift lines, north facing slopes nice packed smooth powder, some of the sunny slopes firm smooth – worked fine with the steel skis – spent most of the day in a number of gladded tree runs off of Crystal Ridge, Excelerator and Solar Coaster. Got a lot of bump practice. Clearing trend at the end of the day led to big bright blue sky on Saturday, big views of all the mountains, also led to the weekend crowd showing up , compared to Friday, but still no real lift lines. With the big sun spent a lot of time on Glacier, which allowed access to Ruby Bowl and Suadan Couloir – aka Couloir Extreme, both great packed powder bumps and big dropping steep. Sadly some clouds moved in early afternoon, so had to suffer going back to the gladded tree runs…darn I hate that. Sunday started with filtered sun and repeating most of what I did on Saturday, plus a few more of the bump runs between Jersey and Glacier – Bite, Staircase, Blowdown. Sadly the big fog layer moved into the middle of the mountain so gladded tree runs became mandatory – darn again. Ended all three days with 4k runs to the base, though Sunday was pretty bullet proof on the bottom third. Other big news is the non stop construction on the highway from Horseshoe Bay all the way to Squamish…amazing and slow, long trip up and back. Great weekend at Blackcomb ready to go back. 101k ddk
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