by Keith and Heather Nicol
On Good Friday (April
3) we were joined by our son Michael for our first day of skiing at Whistler
for this season. The winter has not been a good one for many B.C. ski resorts
so we were interested to see how Whistler was faring in terms of snow and
skiing conditions. We decided to load from Creekside which has the advantage of
a relatively short walk from the free parking area to the lifts. Although it
was warm at the village by the time we were skiing on top the weather was telling
us that winter was not over yet. We were
treated to strong east winds, sunny periods, snow flurries and fog ...sometimes
all within one run. Although the area had had quite abit of new snow about a
week ago it was basically all skied out so we decided to stay mainly to the
groomed runs which seemed to have the most consistent snow. We enjoyed skiing runs off the Harmony
Express and Symphony Express and although it was a holiday the lift lines
flowed smoothly.
Michael carves a turn on Fisheye |
After lunch we
decided to try some of the runs lower down on the mountain and took runs off
the Big Red Express and even headed down to the Garbanzo Express where the snow
was definitely thinner near the bottom. We decided that the better snow was at
the top of the mountain so we headed to the T Bars for some of the best runs of
the day. Whistler- Blackcomb has some great skiing left and some good deals for
end of the season skiers so we plan to head back before the season ends on May 18,
2015. For more information see: http://www.whistlerblackcomb.com/
The best snow was on the groomed runs |
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