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the box fan issues making it hard for me to post... We are staying in the main village. When i checked parking at the conference center, their website said full, and i would imagine trying to find parking on a friday night would be even harder than when i checked on a thursday morning.
I normally stay at the creekside base so i know how/where to park overnight for cheap/free there (ive never gotten bothered in the main creekside underground lot), but that would be an inconvenient last resort.
Never gotten bothered parking outside reddoor either.
Lot 4 or 5 I mix them up, the one with singing pass parking, allows overnight parking. You don't have to park in the designated spots as long as you park on the same row beside them. It's $10/24hrs.
https://www.whistler.ca/services/tra...-pass-parking/
Thanks for all the messages to bring stuff here. I got it covered.
[for californiagrown] You're braver than me if you park somewhere that explicitly doesn't allow overnight parking.
My understanding is that none of the "day lots" allow overnight parking during the winter and this website confirms that:
https://www.whistler.ca/services/tra...night-parking/
Thank you Cocximus!
Does anyone have any information on how long the Glacier chair will be down? That's a real pisser in the middle of the season.
Looks like glacier is back up! Any chance the t bar will run? It would be cool to take my 8yo on the glacier now that he has the he skills to get down it.
I’m heading up with the family tomorrow for the week if any mags are around when I can sneak out for some fast laps pm me.
Looks like glacier is back up! Any chance the t bar will run? It would be cool to take my 8yo on the glacier now that he has the he skills to get down it.
I’m heading up with the family tomorrow for the week if any mags are around when I can sneak out for some fast laps pm me.
Rolling in on Monday morning - looks like some weather on it's way, albeit wet. Thinking cold thoughts!
I heard Symphony went down yesterday afternoon. Hopefully it was a minor issue and will be running again today.
Does whistler, or the nearby area have weather telemetry readings? Looking at avalanche.ca they have a weather station list, but nothing appears to be near/at whistler? With the this weekend's upcoming snowlevel still in flux i was hoping for a way to be able to check the snow accumulation/precip at different elevations the morning of. Something similar to the NWAC telemetry tables. Does that exist?
https://secure.whistlerblackcomb.com...r/default.aspxQuote:
Originally Posted by californiagrown
Holy cow, you guys go in 15 minute intervals! damn! Thanks Lee.
No wonder they didn’t open 7th heaven today, 120kph+ gusts all morning. Was a bit bummed since I did the steeps clinic today and we could get into any of the couloirs and they didn’t open spanks either but we still found some good snow.
Looking warm and wet tomorrow, then just warm next week. Maybe March will be decent?
Raining in the village right now but snow line was around the midstation. Supposed to be warmer and windy tomorrow, we are heading out of town but I’m sure there will be some good snow up high if they open anything.
Hey guys, I booked my first trip to whistler for the first week of march a while back, after learning that march was the time to go. Unfortunately it doesn't seem like there is going to be snow this week. Any recommendations where there will be some good tree skiing or other places I should check out with the low snow fall?
WB alpine is one of the best places in the continent for spring skiing on a nice day. And if it cools down and turns to refrozen junk later in the week, well...the groomers are world class too. Save the trees for another trip when it snows.Quote:
Originally Posted by bennyboy
Not sure what your ski days will be, but it does look like snow could return toward the end of next week.
WB needs to fix the old 4 chair on 7th Heaven, completely down on Wednesday Mar 5 and on Thurs opened late and ran at slower speed, with no load on every 3rd chair. Huge lineups. This will be a cluster if it's still limping after this wkd big dump.
Supposedly the motor broke and it was on diesel backup? Also have read it’s EOL, but replacement will require a bunch of work at Horstman to clear more space, challenges compounded by glacial erosion. Surely this can all be done if Vail throw $$ at it.
And surely an absolute gong show this weekend between storm intensity, thirst for powder and likely no alpine tomorrow and probably Sunday. Hoping I can sneak up Monday or Tuesday.
I heard it was an electrical problem at top motor, and I thought, ok, Blackcomb closes in 6 weeks, they'll say screw it, rather than patch it. Run it at low capacity (unless diesel breaks) and do proper repairs in summer. They'd claim a repair would be 'disruptive' to users. But apparently, they are attempting to fix the electric drive.
I'll be up on Sunday. Considering doing first tracks.
Skiing Whistler/Blackcomb next week 03/13-03/17. I know Whistler is finally getting some snow over the next few days, but assume conditions won't improve all that much? Whats the move for skis to bring up? Pretty much skiing whatever expert terrain is available/open. Usually would bring up a 110 (would be the Sender Free 110 or MFree 108), but thinking a ski with some metal in it might be the move or just narrower overall (I have the Enforcer 99 and Sender Free 100 as well) or split the difference with the BC Atris. Driving up from central WA with some others so can't bring multiple skis unfortunately.
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First tracks is cancelled tomorrow just FYIQuote:
Originally Posted by The AD
wtf. I know I quoted this post.Quote:
Originally Posted by The AD
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Heading up tomorrow post day care drop off. @clownshoe what’s your ETA for whis alpine cracking?
Yeah, the quoting isn't working correctly. Yes, I did see that First Tracks was canceled.
Well, that was a lot of snow, but can't say I had the greatest experience. I was the wettest I've ever been on Sunday and yesterday felt like a weekend day. Looks like everyone has been starved for snow. I've never seen lift lines consistently that long. It really cleared out past 2:00, though.
Red chair lineup at around 11:00 on Sunday.
https://live.staticflickr.com/65535/...1a8caaa4_b.jpg
Left Whistler on Saturday and came to Revelstoke via Sun Peaks. Revvy delivered! The morning load was thick on Monday but no lines on Tuesday and conditions were even better. Looks like I made the right call.
Oh wow that's a serious lineup. No alpine was opened on Sunday right
Correct, no alpine on Sunday. Things opened up fairly quickly on Monday. I skied Blackcomb and Glacier and Seventh were both loading before noon.
Hey was 7th loading at full capacity, no empty chairs? And at normal speed?
It was loading at full capacity and seemed like it was running at normal speed.
Revy will probably get busier after the incident at KH.Quote:
Originally Posted by boar2m
You mean you don't want to play gondola roulette?
"You mean you don't want to play gondola roulette? "
The Kicking Horse Gondola is closed. On the other hand the Revelstoke gondola was also built by Poma and seems to be the same design ;)
Hey Whistler Mags,
I'm at Crested Butte this year, and lifts will close April 6, so my plan is to hit WB for 40 days until lifts close.
How is WB doing nowadays (snow coverage & operations), compared to last year? And compared to the pre-COVID era?
I did plenty of full seasons at WB before COVID. Then last year, I only did one 14-day trip to WB in mid-April...and I experienced some unexpected stuff:
- Pretty much every lift ran at half-speed for all 10 days that I skied in mid-April. WTF?
- Peak Chair typically didn't open until noon whenever there was like only 5 inches of new snow. WTF?
- Last year, Mother Nature didn't cover a lot of rocks on many of the steeper lines, even in mid-April...like Elevator was extra-spicy, Dilemma was still rocky AF in April (here's a vid of it in JAN last year, at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c1dFv6TPiWM )...etc. Can't blame Vail Corp for that...low-snow years happen sometimes.
So, is snow coverage better this year? Are lifts running at decent speeds this year?
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It's been a late winter but tons of snow in the last few weeks so coverage is great, definitely better than last year from what I remember. Glaciated areas have some different terrain features due to glacier recession (Blackcomb Gl, Horstman Gl, Glacier Bowl on Whistler, Whistler bowl etc) but nothing major. There have been some lift issues this year (Glacier Chair broken gearbox, 7th motor issue) but everything seems to have ran mostly normal the past week or so. Lift reliability definitely feels worse in recent years. Whistler alpine has been opening at normal times this season I'd say, the only really late 12:30-1pm Peak days have been during huge cycles ontop of crappy surfaces which is normal.