嘉嘉

just had a super wonderful day on cypress today~

weather is too warm so even up there is about 5C during the afternoon
snow was very soft cuz it was kinda melting
super nice snow plus clear sky!

Surreal

2012.01.30: Seymour Ladies Night = crappy slopes, crappy snow & crappy visibility. I must have forg ...
sko 發表於 2012-1-30 23:43

   
I don't know if you have played a game called "Silent Hill" but this photo is just as creepy as what's in there.

damn it would suck to ski with such low visibility...

Seymour, a place that I never have visited.  

I'm going Revelstoke and Kicking Horse next week.   ...
B2L2 發表於 2012-1-31 11:36

How much does the trip cost?

just had a super wonderful day on cypress today~

weather is too warm so even up there is about 5C d ...
嘉嘉 發表於 2012-2-5 01:39

    Hey I was there too! SPECTACULAR scenery but snow condition is pretty...icy






Some runs on the Raven chair were so icy, I had a very hard time stopping.

sko

thank you for all your advise..........

no need to try this mountain then ^^
I have heard my frd  ...
嘉嘉 發表於 2012-2-3 00:50

Way too many people since it was a by-donation event (no set $).
Yeah, I avoid places with lots of people and especially beginners. Like you said, way too hard to predict them. lol~

Even Cypress, way too many people for a small mountain! Night skiing there is better though.

sko

回復 42# Surreal

Lol, Silent Hill. Never played the game but saw the movie. Yups, it was freaky! Driving down was freaky too! Snowing hard and the roads were very slippery. I also drive a non-winter-equp car so that was not good.

sko

2012.02.05 - Another day @ Whistler: warm, not enough snow (especially near 7th Heaven Area), semi icy/powder surface, nice & sunny, ski crossing area remains open.

Photo: Symphony Amphitheater (Super icy if you go off-trail (not off-bounds)

Surreal

2012.02.05 - Another day @ Whistler: warm, not enough snow (especially near 7th Heaven Area), semi i ...
sko 發表於 2012-2-6 10:01

   
One day I'm gonna go to Whistler just to take photos.

There's just too much awesomeness on the mountains.....
And since I am ok with the T-bars now, I should definitely go.

sko

Seymour, a place that I never have visited.  

I'm going Revelstoke and Kicking Horse next week.   ...
B2L2 發表於 2012-1-31 11:36

Just read this, you're going heli-skiing at Revelstoke?? Awesome stuff!! Perfect powder snow I bet!

嘉嘉

snowboarded first time with a plastic bag on top and gloves soaked wet
I could easily squeeze out water from them @__@

was like pouring rain on cypress these few days ><
but frds are going back to HK soon, so we stayed anyway~
can always see snow melting here and there.....

but it was still a fun day today~

嘉嘉

I don't know if you have played a game called "Silent Hill" but this photo is just as creepy ...
Surreal 發表於 2012-2-5 21:01

you got a lot of nice pictures too~!!!

I stayed mostly on the green runs, so it was not bad that day~

B2L2

Back from our first visit to Revelstoke and Kicking Horse.  No, we aren't going heli or cat skiing, just stayed at the resort.  Those are too rich for our blood, maybe we will try cat skiing eventually (when there is a storm).

Snow condition was okay but no new snow for the whole week before our arrival means there was no powder.  Good that the weather stayed cool and dry which kept an okay snow condition.  Hard pack and not icy.

Kicking Horse really kicked our ass.  Basically only one green run, which is their cat track.  Blue runs are all steep groomers, which is long and STEEP.  Even the easiest one will be rated as black in local mountains.  Tons of black and double.  Chairlifts aren't linked up properly.  This means you jump off the double black at the top 1/3, you then ski the steep runs down the 2/3.  Total is ~1000m vertical each run.  Sooooooo tiring.

We decided to take an easy day off to Lake Louise after Kicking Horse (1.5 hrs away).  Turned out to be a bad decision.  Worst snow condition at Lake Louise in 4 of my visits.  Rocks here and there, snow was worse than Kicking Horse.  Good that we only do a day trip.

Next stop was back to Revelstoke.  An even bigger vertical mountain, top to bottom run is like 1500m vertical.  Chairlift is slightly better this time, at least we could loop at the upper mountain and the back face.  Again only 1 green and groomers are all STEEP.  Here they don't rate black into single or double, only black color.  Once we entered a crazy narrow couloir, one ski width and ~300m vertical drop, and it was a marked black run.  Without able to see the exit, we decided not to take it but ended up with a tough time to get out from the cliff zone.  After that, we just spent most time in the bumps and trees.  The back blow needs a short 5mins hike or more depends on which way you want to enter it.

Both Revelstoke and KH is not mean for beginner.  Even for intermediate, you wouldn't quite able to enjoy it.  But if you're looking for challenge, they offered a lot within the chairlift or with only a short hike.

- Brian