grantbowen
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Sunshine and no new snow on Whistler Mountain.
But I got a chance to take a look at Flute Bowl without the usual cloud cover. A hell of a place to crank new turns but you better be prepared to walk. It's about 200-300 yards of pole, skate and slide followed by 20 or 30 minutes straight up a boot-kicked slope. Not a snowboard-friendly route... Then you have to decide how far to walk around the ridge passing tasty slope after tasty slope. And, after you have the run of your life, you have another 15 minute walk out to the Burnt Stew trail.
My day was cut short when my wife did a header and earned a mild concussion and whiplash. (She's OK) That meant spending Sunday in the Village while it snowed all day, sometimes lightly and sometimes with more vigor. By 4 PM it amounted to 2 inches in the valley. This morning they reported 4 cm overnight and 7 in 24 hours. But this place needs bigger and more frequent dumps to get important terrain open. On the download on the Village Gondola I saw pickup trucks on the main run to the bottom. The 5 day has no new snow forecast but, for those who whorship the sun and warmth, a sunny inversion is predicted towards the end of the week.
One more word of advice: they opened a trail down as far as the Village Gondola mid station but the lineup there was horrible. Not enough empty cars were left empty when they loaded at the top and the lineup on Saturday was up to 40 minutes!
If you go, do Whistler Mountain. More terrain open than on Blackcomb
But I got a chance to take a look at Flute Bowl without the usual cloud cover. A hell of a place to crank new turns but you better be prepared to walk. It's about 200-300 yards of pole, skate and slide followed by 20 or 30 minutes straight up a boot-kicked slope. Not a snowboard-friendly route... Then you have to decide how far to walk around the ridge passing tasty slope after tasty slope. And, after you have the run of your life, you have another 15 minute walk out to the Burnt Stew trail.
My day was cut short when my wife did a header and earned a mild concussion and whiplash. (She's OK) That meant spending Sunday in the Village while it snowed all day, sometimes lightly and sometimes with more vigor. By 4 PM it amounted to 2 inches in the valley. This morning they reported 4 cm overnight and 7 in 24 hours. But this place needs bigger and more frequent dumps to get important terrain open. On the download on the Village Gondola I saw pickup trucks on the main run to the bottom. The 5 day has no new snow forecast but, for those who whorship the sun and warmth, a sunny inversion is predicted towards the end of the week.
One more word of advice: they opened a trail down as far as the Village Gondola mid station but the lineup there was horrible. Not enough empty cars were left empty when they loaded at the top and the lineup on Saturday was up to 40 minutes!
If you go, do Whistler Mountain. More terrain open than on Blackcomb
