Its not everyday you get to go wakeboarding on the same day you go snow skiing, let alone do it in the same town.

We went skiing on Blackcomb in the morning, the snow was awesome and the sun was shining. On the way home we got the phone call to go wake boarding on Green Lake, so we thought, why not.

Here are some photos from wakeboarding, sure the water was cold but if you’re in a wetsuit  nice and thick then it no problem.

The skiing in Whistler is still so good. The snow base is still hovering around the 3 metre mark(Mid-mountain).

The past week it has been blue bird and nice and warm. The snows been soft but staying relatively fast. What more could you want at the end of the season.

Here is a photo from last Saturday for you to check out the conditions for yourself.

Just a little clip from riding the Dirt Jumps in Whistler.

I’ve hit up the Dirt Jumps a couple of time lately; they are in really good condition since they have been worked on.  The dirt has dried out and packed in a bit since all the rain.

There are so many different lines you can take, and I advise everyone to go up and give them a go as the builders have done a really nice job with them.

I was talking to some guy up there yesterday, and he had just hiked a-line up to the rock drop and said that it was mostly clear of snow,  he said there was a big patch  of  snow on one of the corners after the rock drop and then a large patch on the rough long shale slope.

Also in speaking to one of the bike park trail crew, the have been busy digging out the trails as there is still quite a bit of snow up around the mid station of the gondola, but he still thinks most of them will be ready to ride on the long weekend, but probably still really muddy. He said that as the top of Dirt Merchant and Golden triangle that there is probably still 6 foot of snow, so it will be highly unlikely that they will get that open.

Keep your fingers crossed for warm sunny weather so the snow melts and the trails dry out.

I just went up to the jumps to see if any more work had been done to them. I guess due to the rain they have been unable to work on them as it is now pretty muddy up there. It’s meant to keep raining for the next few days so I gues no more work until after the weekend.

Heres are few pics of what it look like at the DJ’s.

Last Saturday I finally decided that the Whistler dirt jumps have had enough time to dry out.

I rode into the village and checked out some of the happenings going on due to the Telus World Ski and Snowboard Festival.

After that, I rode over to the jumps, and they looked like they were in relatively good condition, seeing as though they have been buried under snow for the last 6 months. After riding them I decided that they were actually pretty good, sure there were a few rough sections, but over all really good.

On Monday I headed back up to the jumps to have another little rip, and to my surprise the maintenance crew were there re-shaping and fixing them up. So no riding today. I asked one of the guys who was working on them how long they were going to be working on them and he gave me the answer, “two weeks, but you should be able to ride most of them by the weekend”.

The re-shaping that they had done looked pretty good, and they had even mixed the dirt with a small amount of concrete to harden them right up, which should help them last a bit longer.

So no more jumps until the weekend, but it should be great after that.

So it was the last day of Whistler Mountain being open today. Its seams crazy that this mountain is closing and we still have over a 3 metre base.

We went up for a ski, and the weather was not great, overcast, with quite a thick mid-mountain cloud. Never the less we had a really fun day doing lots of top to bottoms down to Creekside. Yep you can still ski all the way down to the village, no worries. The snow softened up nicely, but it did not go sticky, it stayed nice and fast so it was fun to rip around, off piste and on.

Over the next week they are actually calling for a bit of snow, quite high freezing levels, about 1500 metres I think, so we could have a few powder days riding Spanky’s and anywhere else that is up high.

Bring it on.

If you have been in Whistler for the last few days you would have thought we were back in the middle of winter. In the last 7 days we have received 64cm of new snow. On top of that it has been nice dry snow, not the wet stuff that you would expect at this time of the year.

Off piste there has been lost of powder to play in, and on piste the runs have a nice dusting of soft powdery snow on top. Along with the great snow there is hardly any one on the hill so there are no lift lines, which means the powder is lasting the whole day instead of being skied out in a couple of hours.

Its hard to believe that Whistler Mountain is closing this weekend, as there is so much snow, we still have a snow base of over 3 metres at mid-mountain. At least Blackcomb is staying open for a while longer.

This is a small video I took while waiting for the Peak Chair to open last Saturday.

There was 22cm of fresh snow overnight, and Patrol was being very cautious and bombed just about everything. I counted at least 5 bombs on the ridge above Excitation. This was the last one to go off.

Check it out.

Last Friday it snowed most of the day. In the village the snow was mostly wet but at least it was snow not rain.

On Saturday there was 22cm of new snow overnight, the freezing levels did ride a bit, but hey it is mid April so that allowed.

We got up the mountain nice and early and we were presently surprised that the weather was great, mostly blue skies with a little bit of cloud. First runs on the Peak we awesome, nice dry snow and quite deep. The lift line was quite large, but seeing as though it is the World Telus Ski and Snowboard Festival, they were not to bad, and moving quite quickly.

After a couple of runs the Peak was getting quite tracked out and due to the sun being quite warm the snow was getting a little wetter. It was time to head to the trees. We headed out to Million Dollar Ridge. Awesome! The snow was great down to the Big Timber ski out, but after that it was about as wet and heavy as you can get.

Sunday we up a little later as there was no new snow. You really had to pick your faces as the north east faces were very heavy and wet due to the sun, but the rest were still fairly dry, a little heavier than Saturday but still good.

I didn’t go up skiing today, but it has been snowing heavily all the way to the village all day. Hopefully it will continue into tonight so we get another powder day tomorrow.