peak chair prep today...end of the slack slack country season?

This one post hurts my brain. #1 someone side slipping perfectly skiable terrain. #2 someone complaining about someone sideslipping terrain 15 minutes from the boundary. #3 the use of the term...

Vail Corp has just announced that the third Sunday in January shall now be known as National Good on Paper Day...with an associated pin on their epic app

poles ready...check
skis pointed...check
climbing skins on...check

Since you live in the second most awesomely awesome place in BC I shall help you with the following options north of the village:

- Wedgmount Lake trailhead, about 5 km north of Emerald...

Above average good-on-paper day. A little wisdom goes a long way during major holidays.

Yeah it opened but if I was more conveniently located I'd probably opt for tree skiing at Baker. 90% of the nicest snow was below 2,000 m today.

Meh...+5 and sunny in December <> +5 and sunny in April. If you survived this fall in S2S, enjoy the sun.

Boney as fuck is a stretch...but maybe more applicable to darkside. I'll give you partly boney with a chance of coreshots. In spite of shit vis whistler bowl skied well yesterday - but shale slope...

wtf is going on here? what is this?

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Most adamant snowpack will be f$#ked. Least likely to tailor ambitions to conditions.

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 above reservoir. Definitely bring skins.

Thanks for not showing up today.

November is like beer in that it gives normal people an opportunity to do things they normally wouldn't.

There were about a dozen people on Blackcomb glacier. 3 or 4 down Husume, the bulk stuck...

10 of those years in one line: "are my bindings good enough?"

^ ha ha
After about the same number of days you put on yours, I had the same failure. No fall, no binding pullout, no release. And no past issues with gear breakage, etc.

Shop let me know of...

Skinned kadenwood to peak. Bottom and top 1/3's were easy skinning, deep in places. Middle 1/3 was tough. Better option is probably just up summer road - more vertical hiking but less fighting...

Crystal was sweet. Spider senses led me down overbite just in time for glacier opening. The human tsunami had receded before the final crush so got up pretty quick.

Might heat out to the bumps...

Nice work/patience. Had baby duty in the afternoon so kept doing Jersey laps instead of waiting for Glacier. Somehow the stars aligned and I ended up at the bottom of 7th with no line, no tracks?!!...

Did the bumps today. Partner had to be back by noon so decided to go as far as Oboe.

Hungry group at the bottom of untouched Flute just after Symphony opened...

Have to try:
#1 - Spanky's 1990.
#2 - Harmony ridge, 1992
#3 - Piccolo summit, 1995
#4 - Also Piccolo looking across at lesser Flute, Oboe, Cowboy Ridge, 1987
#5 - Whirlwind with Fissile...

There you go - you fed him.

I skied out to go to work as glacier chair was starting to turn. Pure torment.

XC at Callaghan on Friday & Saturday

Sunday - Boundary bowl, lesser Flute. Could barely differentiate between melt-freeze, windcrust, and windslab. No ski penentration anywhere, even through the...

My first season as a ski bum (Big White). There was a line through the trees that every once and a while popped back out onto a run then back into the woods. I was sure I was about to go off a lip...

I was thinking the same but...
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Was on Blackcomb yesterday - snow was holding up on higher north facing above 1800m or so. Won't be...