Thread: Whistler Stoke and Conditions - 2011/2012

Originally Posted by mikedski

I got in the first round through Whistler Bowl/Shale this morning, but I was just skiing down from the shack. I moved out at about 11:30 am today, after 7 days and 6 nights. The whole thing was amazing! Wednesday's highlight vid will be a banger. We've been holding some good stuff back.

My first tow up the road was just to get a shot of the Avi shrapnel. The 2nd tow up was to look for my lost cell phone - I found it. It may have looked like I was just poaching laps but that wasn't the case. Hope y'all had a good day out there. It was a beauty!

its too bad they didn't let the "sasquatch" attack happen. that would've been comedy at its finest.

Snow?

Saturday...

not bad at all

Originally Posted by postman22

not bad at all

score! I found some nice turns above the hanging roll earlier today....



not too many rocks either



heres to getting pooped on with a big pile of schmoo in the next couple of days!

Early season storm skiing enroute it seems......hope my legs are ready for this...

http://www.ssd.noaa.gov/goes/west/nepac/flash-rb.html

Did a few laps on Flute,6-7 groups out there. Watched a group ski one of the north chutes....some sort of crust in it till it opens up.
Ugly raincrust on varying aspects.
No avy activity from yesterday or today.

Originally Posted by t.odd

Early season storm skiing enroute it seems......hope my legs are ready for this...

http://www.ssd.noaa.gov/goes/west/nepac/flash-rb.html

wow, pretty. hope it stays cold!

Nice day today - the coverage and snow off of the West Ridge was really good. Even Grand Finale was pretty fun, if a little bushy! And I see no reason to download, the coverage to the valley was plenty good enough. Anyone else think it's surprisingly quiet up there today?

disagree on skiing out creekside, hobbit...unless you don't mind bashing your skis, did it yesterday, doable, but risky.

Skiout to the village is good to go, if you stick by the snowblowers. Forecast is looking good for this week, hopefully the legs can keep up.

snow-forcast.com says a 36cm for mundy nite with freezing levels at 600m !!!

BLING !!!

If you don't post pic"s I'll send more ozy"s to your powder stashes !!!

Originally Posted by JimLad

Skiout to the village is good to go, if you stick by the snowblowers. Forecast is looking good for this week, hopefully the legs can keep up.

those big whalebacks made for nice hip jumps... except when there is some dude laying in the ditch on the other side, totally out of it from bumping his head!

Anyone up for a noon hour pow session?

It's fuckin nooking up there right now. My last two runs were free refills down to red chair. Skied out to the creek no problem.

Witnessed my favorite early season crash too. Snowboarder pointing it down creekside ski out, hits water bar at mach looney, air to head, no helmut, tuke/goggle explosion upon impact, comes up with bloody teeth. Probably had a concussion, but I told him to go grab a beer and some wings at Dustys.

It will either turn to rain overnight or snow so much you cannot move at all tomorrow, so y'all shoulda been there this afternoon!

Originally Posted by t.odd

disagree on skiing out creekside, hobbit...unless you don't mind bashing your skis, did it yesterday, doable, but risky.

Fair enough - not tried the creek yet. Village is good to go. And depending on what happens with this storm, creekside could be too! Text me if you head up tomorrow, I'll be there.

hey guys,
i was planning on driving up in the morning from vancouver so i was just wondering how you think the roads are going to be after whatever weather we are going to get tonight. what do you think?
thanks for the help

Originally Posted by Mr.Movember

hey guys,
i was planning on driving up in the morning from vancouver so i was just wondering how you think the roads are going to be after whatever weather we are going to get tonight. what do you think?
thanks for the help

coming down pretty hard right now, but it appears they're keeping on top of the snow at this juncture...although think it's only supposed to get heavier, no idea how far south it's snowing either...

Snow started about 10 min past squamish at 730 tonight, expect it will drop to the town soon. Plows were keeping up but going was 60-70km/h. Snowing pretty good in the village right now.

Originally Posted by Mr.Movember

hey guys,
i was planning on driving up in the morning from vancouver so i was just wondering how you think the roads are going to be after whatever weather we are going to get tonight. what do you think?
thanks for the help

http://images.drivebc.ca/bchighwayca...l/www/178.html
probably not great

Going to be hard to find anything steep enough tomorrow. Should be fun looking though.

Past few days have been a warm up for what's coming this week.
Here's opening day, with some arm flailing:

Originally Posted by JimLad

Going to be hard to find anything steep enough tomorrow. Should be fun looking though.

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Fuck, just packed up my snorkel from my trip down south, Avalung will have to suffice

So deep I'm going to bust out the 180cm pow stick, get some high fluoro on there

2ft overnight! Hopefully the FL is around olympic so you can at least straightline Seppo's and not have to run into a pile of slush like the one on my deck!

that's a massive overnighter! might need a garbage bag for the liftline this morning raining pretty hard in the valley...

My legs can feel it already.