Well we just had a few days of sunshine, and some ‘real’ Spring skiing. The weather was hot, the sun was shining, and the snow became nice and slushy. Blackcomb got a lot busier as a lot of the locals got out and enjoyed the sunny weather. Still, overall it is quite empty, especially considering [...]

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Today was un-believably cold. The alpine temperature hovered around -18 Celsius, and the valley was around -10. Crazy for the 19th of April, its supposed to be warm Spring weather, however today, the mountain was a frozen ice block. It was basically as cold as the coldest day during Winter. So much for global warming [...]

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Sorry about not making many updates lately. The truth is I haven’t been up on the mountains much, I am looking forward to a nice summer of mountain biking and rock climbing so I have been hitting the gym to get fit for these activities.
I did go skiing yesterday, and had a fun day. The [...]

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Well I haven’t been skiing for a few days now, and have been enjoying the World Ski and Snowboard Festival. Some great free concerts, the Big Air contest on Saturday night was huge and plenty of side stalls with informative people have kept me busy.
In the meantime, the weather has been erratic. We had a [...]

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Well the weather is finally turning, and Whistler is coming into Spring. The conditions on the upper mountains are still fantastic, winter-like snow, while the lower mountains are experiencing warm enough temperatures to get ’slushy’ snow by midday onwards. This slushy snow then re-freezes overnight, so first thing in the morning it is a ‘bullet-proof’ [...]

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