B2L2

Whistler @ Feb 19th

Reported to have a pretty good snow fall towards the end of last week, so we were all hype up.  Oh well, fog kept following us whole morning, and more important we never noticed the 10-15 cm of snow on popular runs.  Some groom runs were even icy.

The new snow must still exist somewhere.    Lucky that after lunch, we were able to go up Harmony.  Jumping down from the Harmony ridge granted you ankle deep powder everywhere.  Although fog still come and go, all you could hear was screaming joy and people laughing like a kid there.  Fun, although I still struggling with powder half of the time.  

sko

Back from our first visit to Revelstoke and Kicking Horse.  No, we aren't going heli or cat skiing,  ...
B2L2 發表於 2012-2-13 13:40

That sounded such an awesome trip: both KH and Revelstoke! I would love to go one day. How were the blacks at Revelstoke compared to the ones at Whistler (both single and double)? Did any of the blacks require vertical "jumps"? Are you a skiier? Any awesome mogul terrains??

B2L2

Revelstoke doesn't rate their blacks into single or double, so that's one problem to compare.  

To give you some background, our group is all skier and we like moguls.  Front side, all black doesn't requires jump or hike.  They are either constant steep pitch groom runs (like beginning section of Saddle@Whistler but 5x the length), or mogul (similar to Ratfink@Whistler)

Back side is basically one bowl like the size of Whistler Bowl followed by all tree runs at the bottom.  If you want to enter from the very top, you will need to hike >15 mins (we didn't do that).  If you want to enter from the side, you could do that in ~1 mins hike.  You don't need to jump in (unless you want to).  Even the narrow couloir that we went, there is no jump, just super narrow and long.

Mogul runs?  In between the trees of the back side, there are many choices.  The open area under the chair also gives one long mogul runs (took me like 5mins to come down, so tiring).

sko

2012.02.26 - Another day @ Whistler: sunny but COLD (-16 at peak); packed powder slopes, super fluffy powder snow at low-volume places; perfect day to do your blacks and double blacks; AND GMC Race Centre was open fyi (icy track but superrr fun; loved how they timed you). The infamous 7th Heaven jump was also available, and busy as usual.

One of our favorites: Ski & Snowboard Cross Course

B2L2

sko, did you make the jump?    This is not going to happen in my life.  It's scary enough just to watch.

Will be at Whistler again this Sunday.  Forecast say it is going to warm up a bit but still 30-50km wind.

sko

sko, did you make the jump?    This is not going to happen in my life.  It's scary enough just to  ...
B2L2 發表於 2012-2-29 10:11

I JUMPED, but landed on my bum and hit my head real hard somewhere. @@ LOL

Same here! Sat or Sun, our group is still deciding. Maybe we'll see you there. Still have another 2 days to go on the edge card.

嘉嘉

so rich............><
you guys always go whistler

sko

so rich............><
you guys always go whistler
嘉嘉 發表於 2012-2-29 13:55

Cypress is just as expensive! No? lol

Surreal

Is the Bus + ticket to Whistler offer still selling at $94?

sko

I JUMPED, but landed on my bum and hit my head real hard somewhere. @@ LOL

Same here! Sat or Sun, ...
sko 發表於 2012-2-29 13:31

Oh wait, I think we were talking about different jumps here. I didn't mean THIS one:

I don't think I will ever attempt that! If I did, I would have joined X-Game and you guys will see me on TV instead.

I meant just the elongated-looking-small-kicker near 7th Heaven. I think it was this one (Lol):