So it’s starting to feel like spring in Whistler. The temperatures are staying relatively cold up on the top of the mountain but by the time you get down to the bottom of Big Red you can feel the sun starting to get a bit of some punch to it. The bottom of the hill, while it still has a lot of snow there are one or two places, such as the very bottom of Peak to Creek where you can start to see that the snow is getting a little thin and brown.

Over the last few days we have had quite a bit of precipitation and high winds. Unfortunately we have had relatively high freezing levels as well, so most of the precipitation was in the form if rain, except up the very top where we received quite a bit of snow.

We didn’t get up too early as we thought it was going to take a while for Patrol to open the Peak as it had not been opened for the least 2 days due to the bad weather. Unfortunately we were at the bottom of Red chair when the light board switch to saying that it was open. Once we got to the Peak there was a large line and shale slope was nearly tracked out. We got up the top and did to runs down Glacier Cirque, it was quite nice, not to deep, but at least it was fresh.

If you go up skiing at the moment and ski all the alpine bowls, keep and eye out for cornice and avalanche debris as it is every where, ranging in all sizes from a car to a small rock. There was even some big boulders of snow on the groomed run down the saddle that were looking pretty dangerous if you hit them, and there were quite a few.

After 2 runs on the Peak we decided that it was basically tracked out, so we thought that we would go give Million Dollar Ridge. The top was amazing, lighter and deeper than the peak, thanks to it being more protected from the wind. Unfortunately by about half way down it was terrible and we where skiing ice until we got to Big Timber. Oh well the top was worth it.

We decided to call it a day, as the only good snow was at the top and it was not worth doing any runs that went bellow the Peak.

The weather looks like it may be quite nice for the next couple of days, so hopefully we will get some nice sunny skiing days in.