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11-16-2013, 11:23 AM #76
CBC trailhead
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11-16-2013, 02:42 PM #77
Inb4 I drop out of Ryerson to come back mid december....
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11-16-2013, 07:05 PM #78Registered User
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11-16-2013, 07:14 PM #79
So how was today? I'm thinking of heading up tomorrow. Bring the skins or ride the groomers?
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11-16-2013, 07:25 PM #80
Not the best or worst opening day I've been to. There was a highway of people hiking up the road to Harmony most of the day and lots of Peak (Cirque, Couloir, Whistler bowl, West Cirque, Shale Slope) and Harmony ridge were skied from what I could tell. Stuck to the groomers to warm the legs up although coverage in the alpine looked decent from far away, didn't want to chance it personally.
Other things of note, saw the first meatwagon being brought down by patrol at 9:15am (how?) and some poor soul doing an unintentional death before download on Creekside in the afternoon.
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11-16-2013, 07:29 PM #81Registered User
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11-16-2013, 09:06 PM #82
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11-16-2013, 09:07 PM #83
Ya the trails are in great shape!
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11-17-2013, 12:05 AM #84
Had there been another 15-20cm coverage I probably would have been kicking myself for not bringing skins. But today was fun to get out with the Missus and stretch the legs on the groomers...while trying to dodge every boarder trying to hit anything that resembled a lip.
Looks like some snow tonight so tomorrow might be a good day to hike/skin and avoid the maddening crowd....
...or just watch "Aussie and Quebexican Tib-Fib Day" unfold under Franz's....
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11-17-2013, 08:24 AM #85
got up for 3 laps in the afternoon, nice to catch up with some friends and slide around on the planks....although with limited terrain I felt like I was skiing back east, wall to wall people on the trails, shoulder checking very mandatory so you don't get creamed, in 3 laps I think I saw 4 big collisions between skiers/boarders from the lift, some pretty heavy looking ones too...definitely looked like there were some decent turns to be had in the alpine
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11-17-2013, 08:39 AM #86
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11-17-2013, 11:12 AM #87
It's good to be back!
A wee bit of pow, sunshine, and many high fives made for a great opening day! Surprisingly not as much of a gong-show as I thought it might be either, no more than 10min waits in line. Let it snow!
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11-17-2013, 12:55 PM #88
Went for a little skin up to horseshoes this morning. The snow was great! Not too many people getting out there either. We got a nice window of good vis and had a sweet run down mcconkey's. Definitely ski with caution if heading out there though. There are some shallowly covered rocks, especially as you get lower down.
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11-19-2013, 04:24 PM #89stuff and things
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Lots of questionable people in questionable terrain doing questionable things right now on Whistler Peak. Saw two University city students trying to climb out of Wednesday's on West Bowl after realizing where they were followed by someone *skinning* up The Couloir. Good times.
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11-19-2013, 05:58 PM #90
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11-19-2013, 10:39 PM #91Registered User
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We had a great lap down Whistler Bowl / Shale Slope today, definitely worth the walk.
Ran into a girl walking, solo to boot-pack UP Shale Slope at the Peak Chair base and then watched a group set a skin/bootpack up through the Key West/Left Hook area while having a beer in the Roundhouse. Saw the crazy skin-track up the The Couloir at this time too. Some serious WTF?! going on out there right now. Do they not know there's a cat-track around the back? Is extreme skinning a thing now? I know this thread popularised it last year but the uptake by the general populace is impressive.
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11-19-2013, 10:46 PM #92stuff and things
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11-19-2013, 10:48 PM #93stuff and things
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11-19-2013, 10:59 PM #94
Anyone have a hi-res picture of the crazy Poop Chutes skin track from last year?
This is lo-res
Also could use hi-res one of the skin tracks that always get put up the gut of Cowboy Ridge
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11-20-2013, 12:47 AM #95
^That first picture. Holy shit.
Drive slow, homie.
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11-20-2013, 01:01 AM #96
Did a day tour up to the Wendy Thompson hut on Sunday for some exercise and to stretch the legs. There's enough snow to skin in the area, but anything that isn't a smooth meadow has plenty of rocks sticking up.
Skintrack conditions at about 1350m
More snow at 1750m, but still pretty thin.
The Hut.
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11-20-2013, 11:55 AM #97Registered User
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With skin track through saddle haven't really looked at Harmony. Bottom of West Bowl has gone from sketchy to marginal with 10 - 15 cm fresh. Steeper entrances (Couloir, Excitation) surprisingly good coverage. With no new snow in forecast Harmony will be skied out by Friday. Some tracks toward Flute yesterday.
Inversion forecast for weekend, but all in all a pretty good start to slack slackcountry.
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11-20-2013, 02:04 PM #98
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11-20-2013, 02:50 PM #99Registered User
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My friend Kevin is a savvy tech guy and keen skier. He realized that after a week of storms, you want to know if your favourite run is going to be tracked out or still have some pockets of fresh. What matters is not only if, but when a lift opened during and after a storm. So he built this:
http://kevinlowe.ca/lifts.php?showall
He's travelling now, so I don't think there are plans to build it for other areas soon. Might be useful for folks skiing WB this year.
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11-20-2013, 03:36 PM #100
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