EPIC SNOW - Whistler Blackcomb December 23, 2007
Whistler Blackcomb is one of North America’s premier ski resorts. Approximately a 2-3 hour drive from Vancouver, this world class resort offers over 8000 acres of terrain pretty much in my back yard. Yes I know I am lucky; and my goodness my friends and I were very very lucky this past Sunday December 23, 2007. Usually Whistler/Blackcomb gets record dumps of snow early season, and usually the weekend before Christmas is pretty dead up there. This past weekend definitely did not disappoint. With massive weather systems moving through the area dumping large amounts of snow (80+ cm in the last 5 days), giving crappy visibility combined with the weekend right before Christmas, there was loads of fresh snow, and not very many people! Such a great combination!
On the Saturday (December 22) the winds, and visibility were so crappy that the mountain didn’t even open up the alpine area, so on Sunday December 23, there was a good fresh 20+ CM of fresh powder in those massive alpine bowls ready to be poached. It has been a long time since I have ridden so many untracked lines inbounds in one day!
Enough chit chat, here are some of the pictures we took through the day….I keep praying to the snow gods for more days like Dec 23…loads of snow, no people, poor visibility, untracked lines all day long………….bloody epic
Glacier Chair on Blackcomb mountain
Smoked Salmon
Some Open Field of Untrack Deep Powder
Somewhere in the Crystal Chair Zone
A Beautiful Open Field of Untracked Snow in the 7th Heaven Zone
Hate it when your snowboard takes a submarine!
2 Comments »
Dave on 02 Jan 2008 at 6:13 am #
Bricer,
Snow looks epic. Wish I could have joined you guys. Happy New Year from Colombia.
Dave
Dean Wegman on 08 Jan 2008 at 12:32 pm #
Good times that day! Lots of soft landings on the drops …lets hope the season continues the way it’s going (anti jinx on that!!) Some nice action shots. My yellow jacket/blue pants stands out good in the pic ..with a little arms up to heaven action. LOL.