WSC subie/ski trip xD
anyone who wants to go to whitewater is welcome to a futon in my living room.
Don't make that kind of offer - you never know who might show up! [BTW, I don't snore and I always buy booze for the host.
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The last time I was at Whitewater, we got caught by the Pineapple Express. It barfed snow until noon, then started to get really warm and then rain. Everybody was hitting the big chair on the other side of the valley, so I rocked the kiddie chair all day, hitting rollers and dodging trees in the sweet pow. By 3:00 I was done and done. Into the lounge for some cheap assay pints!
If there's a WSC trip to the Interior, we'd also have to hit Red Mountain. The first 2 trips there, I didn't even make it off of Paradise [except to hit Beer Belly - "Watch out for the cabin! Oh no!"]. Run after run in the trees - all powder, all the time. The last few trips I've been able to spend more time on Granite, which has some awesome terrain.
In the same area, we try to hit the cat-boarding for a couple of days. My favourite op is Valhalla Powdercats - so much fun, so much pow, such tight trees! It's always funny to watch the skiers hammer through the snow, fighting all the way. Then the 'boarders drop in and we just flow. The tele dudes make the rest of us look like flailing tools with their grace. It's such a good time, totally worth the $300/day.
Other places... Fernie is good, but it takes some luck to score untracked on the weekends. In the old days, you just had to be willing to endure the Face Lift to get to Snake [or whatever else is on rider's left] and then you were good. Ditto for Siberia. Lola knows someplace called the Sneaky Trees that I can't identify based on her description, so maybe I'll get her to show me. Kimberley can be awesome, but it can also suck. If they have snow, you can just ride the Easter chair all fargin' day, then go to your condo and chug-a-lug the night away. KHMR can be good, but I've been skunked a couple of times by their gondola. Without that, it's about as fun as Wintergreen. They need another lift on the Terminator side of CPR ridge AND something in Feuz bowl. It's clogged with Calgarians on the weekends now, so I am going to try and hit it mid-week when there is nobody around.
What else? Castle - go on a Wednesday, never on the weekend. Cloudshine - Delerium is good if it's open and there's enough snow to cover the rocks, otherwise it's zero vis, hot laps and douchebags all damn day [okay, Side Door and Back Door are good too]. Nakiska - I've had some amazing days [St. Patrick's Day Massacre!], and it's fun in the spring when the groomers get all soft and gougable. Le Lac - she's treated me well, but with tix in the $80 range and no Eagle chair [uckfayers!], I'll drive the extra 60 minutes to Golden or Fernie [maybe even Pano].
What I'm REALLY excited about is Revelstoke. 4 hour drive from Calgary keeps the gapers away. Vert, vert and more vert. It's cold = more snow, less rain. I rode their cat operation two years ago before they reno'd the whole mountain. Most of the stuff we hit is now in-uckfaying-bounds!!! I didn't make it back this past season, but I'll make it out there or burst this winter. Watch out for tree wells - they are deeeeeeeep.
