Whistler, eh?

This needs to be updated pretty badly huh?

Winter break was very good. Lots of good times seeing friends and family. Towards the end of break, my Dad and I flew out to Whistler, Canada for some stellar skiing. Whistler is the largest resort in North America and truly dwarfs other places. A lot of this has to do with the ridiculously huge, open alpine at the top of both Whistler and Blackcomb mountains:



All that terrain and you can go anywhere you want?!?! YES! You can see little skiers on a groomed path kind of in the center descending from the big notch known as the saddle. Dad and I skied through the saddle in the other direction. Our first day was spent cruising around the high alpine at Whistler.

Later that night it started snowing and would not stop until the end of the trip. Overall, we saw 113 cms (bout 44") of snow in four days... JEA!

With all the snow, the high alpine was closed for most of the rest of the trip (avalanche issues) so we skiied a lot of sweet tree runs like this:



That's Dad laying it down. We're skiing on Blackcomb mountain looking over at Whistler.

Mid-way through the trip, we took the plunge and signed up for a day of Cat-Skiing (riding in a snow-cat and skiing in the backcountry). With all the snow, it was deep, untracked and delicious.



Conversation probably went something like this:

Dad: "Is it up over your knees over there too?!"
Scott: "BAHAHAHAHAHAHAH"
Dad: "Do you have any idea where our guides went"
Scott: "NAH HAHAHAHAHAHAH"
Dad: "BAHAHAHAHAH"

Our last day in town, it was still nukin and woke up to 15" of fresh. Dad and I got up early and earned first turns on a lot of the stuff:



You can deduce a couple things from this:

1. It's still snowing hard.
2. I'm very, very happy.
3. BAHAHAHAHAHAHA.

I hope everyone is having a good first couple weeks of school! I plan to update this thing more regularly... no seriously...