After a great breakfast, Wommie and I headed off to Whistler for the day. We headed straight to the Peak chair (9:10am load) and did a warmup run on Whistler Glacier. There was about 10cm of new snow and the sun was shinning. Our next run was a trip over the 'back side' of the Peak. You would only want to do this with someone who knows the way out. We had about 25 turns down some of the nicest powder fields I can remember. When you ski this aspect of the hill, you must hike back out, about a 10 minute boot walk out back into Bagel Bowl. From there, we hit the 'Cristmas Tree' run down the north face of the West Bowl. After a scoot down around Harmony Bowl, we headed back up to the Peak again. Really great skiing. Unforntunatly, Murphy's law struck around 11:30am when Mat's (Wommie's son) school called to inform Wom that Mat was sick and needed to be picked. Jeff had to leave the hill, so I grabbed my bag from the truck (parking on hill now open again) and stored it in a locker under the Longhorn bar and headed back up.
On my first ride up the Peak, I met up with a fellow (Richard) from Calgary who owns a 1/4 share time share at Whistler. He knew the mountain well. We skied Christmas Tree again (sweet all day long), West Bowl and a bunch of late day runs down the face of the Peak (Shale Face etc). You can 'lap' the Peak in about 12 minutes, so we piled on the runs right up to the last ride up at 3:10pm. We parted ways and I did a Peak to Village run. This had to be over 12km long for sure: down through Burnt Stew, back into Harmony and down the Olympic run into the village. My legs are working well now as I really didn't need to stop for a rest the whole way down!
Tom Redford (Bell guy) was off work at 5pm, so I enjoyed the sun in the village before meeting up with him. The plan was that I would stay over in Whistler with him tonight. We headed off to his condo on Painted Cliff. The hotel here is full of Bell employees from all over Canada. There is a bbq outside next to the pool and hot tub, so Tom bbq'ed us some chicken while I prepared the rest of the diner. After that, it was into the outdoor hot tub, right beside the ski run. After soaking, we headed off to bed.
I'm writting this blog on Tursday morning from Tom's room after a nice continental breakfast. From here, you can ski right onto the run (ski in, ski out). The skies are clear, but there is no new snow. This could be my last day on the hill and I may meet up with Richard from Calgary later on.
One day left at Whistler. My bus leaves here for Vancouver tomorrow (Friday) at 4pm, but I still have shopping and packing to do before that, so skiing tomorrow could be dicey.
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