Whistler This Weekend

[ratcliffe81]

this year W/B seems to open everything every day. since weekends have been extremely busy i can't imagine them not opening the lifts tomorrow. they prob right before lunch 11:30 or so

if you want sun go sunday

Phil's right about what he said. Glacier chair opened late morning...finally. Up top, the wind was a howling. Had to put the 'party bar' down to keep the wind from blowing me off the chair by my skis. Our first run, with RampagingMullet, Brad and Fleurie among others, was a hike up the chimney and down Grey Zone then to CBC trees. Up top it was wind blown pow, but still soft enough to sink an edge and deep too. Approx. a 1/4 of the way down CBC the snow turned to the consistency of gorilla snot. It was gooey, but still pretty deep.

Overall, the snow was pretty dense and at lower elevations just plain heavy. I'm hoping with the cold temps tonight and lighter winds, the snow will dry out a bit. My guess is that the elevation around the bottom of Excel. chair, the snow will be quite crusty tomorrow due to the ridiculous sloppiness of the snow today at that elevation.

Shout out today goes to Brad for dropping that cliff at the bottom of CBC in the sketchy snow conditions.

[Squirrel99]

whistler was good today; sticking around for another day tomorrow. most likely in peak chair lineup w/powder11. perhaps lil' sunshine to go with the powder for tomorrow?

[PulverSchwein]

Well, have fun. I was thinking about it for tomorrow but now I'm sticking out here and hitting Big White again instead. Skiied nice light boot deep pow today. Snowed all day and it's been coming down since I left by the looks of the webcam. Tomorrow's going to be good!

Rip that Peak shit up boys and girls.

[rbtree]

Rip it up with Toby, Squirrel....he can arc 'em and bark 'em pretty well. Wish I was there! But I've got to take a tree off a house in Issaquah tomorrow at 7 am, then may head to Alpy, if a customer with 2 130 foot leaning firs doesn't ask me to do them tomorrow, which will cost him an extra $300 for 3 hours of crew time on top of the $80 per man hour that the $1900 job is figured for. Didn't get home till 9 pm after driving all over, looking at trees, or working on them. Have a $6000 one for Tuesday,m which includes a 100 ton crane. Will miss all of the sun and photo ops next week, dang it... But hope to get to ski with my old number one model and Pow Mag cover slut Wayne Grevey, as he's gonna be at Alpy manana....

[ratcliffe81]

Rip it up with Toby, Squirrel....he can arc 'em and bark 'em pretty well. Wish I was there! But I've got to take a tree off a house in Issaquah tomorrow at 7 am, then may head to Alpy, if a customer with 2 130 foot leaning firs doesn't ask me to do them tomorrow, which will cost him an extra $300 for 3 hours of crew time on top of the $80 per man hour that the $1900 job is figured for. Didn't get home till 9 pm after driving all over, looking at trees, or working on them. Have a $6000 one for Tuesday,m which includes a 100 ton crane. Will miss all of the sun and photo ops next week, dang it... But hope to get to ski with my old number one model and Pow Mag cover slut Wayne Grevey, as he's gonna be at Alpy manana....

Nice rbtree. I take it you are an arbourist? Sounds like there is pretty good money in that profession. I'm supposed to meet up with Powder11 and Squirrel99 tomorrow. Should be a good one in the sun!

And oh yes, we will destroy Peak!

[rbtree]

Yep, ratcliffe, and storm work pays extremely well. I'm gonna bill about $2500 for 10 manhours today ($500 goes to my arbo/ski bud who helped)......job took 5 hrs, which only left time for 4 excellent bc runs at Alpental....If all goes well, I could bill $5000 tomorrow, plus crane fees.

[powder11]

[Buster Highmen]

Portentious.

[Squirrel99]

Actually, this weekend was:


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I didn't take many pics (these are from the WB website from this weekend), but despite the large crowds- it was fun as hell making turns with Powder11, meeting Trouble and a few of his friends from UBC, and making turns with a couple local whistler non-mag friends.

Stayed Whistler-side both days. Got first tracks into VeeDee Trees, Christmas Trees, a suuuuuuuper fast maching fun machine of a first run down an untracked and buffed Whistler Bowl/Shale Slope, a long run out to Kyber, couple of Dad's trees & ratfink, and a double dose of Excitation & Exhilaration to finish the day. Only thing better would have been a Sea Chickens victory.

Hold down the fort, pschyed for the Summit in March.

If you haven't made plans yet, you're missing out. The mountain is filled in right on down to the village.