5 full days of skiing @ Whistler
Hi everyone,
OK for those who bother checking this, sorry I haven't updated it sooner... I had a few midterms last week, and since Friday I've been skiing every day @ Whistler! Anyway I have a few photos from Whistler to put up now - the views were amazing and the weather fantastic (although still not enough snow!) so enjoy....
Oh and OK, I'll put the captions underneath the photos now =P
Day 1
Here I am looking to the Whistler Mtn peak from the top of the Big Red lift
Rina looking down into the valley from the same place
The Roundhouse at the top of the Whistler Gondola. It takes around 30 minutes to get up here (this place is HUGE!) and as season pass holders we get 50% off all the food!
Looking over to Blackcomb Mtn from the Roundhouse
Traversing along the green runs from the Roundhouse down. I skiid with Rina on the first day so we stuck to the easy stuff
Again looking down into the valley...
The traversing here is great, always surrounded by trees on the lower mountain - although a bit too flat in parts
Having lunch @ the Roundhouse outdoors - what a day!
Top of the Harmony chairlift at Little Whistler Peak
Skiing down the Burnt Stew Trail from Little peak
View down from the Burnt Stew Trail
Same again
Day 2
The next morning - 4cm of snow overnight! this is looking down the road from the UBC lodge where we stayed... the place is kinda a hole, the beds are uncomfortable and its noisy and light, but hey - $18 a night is pretty cheap
FOG!! Skiing through this really sux - can't see a thing
View from the lift going up
OK this is amazing, when you go up the lift you literally go through the clouds and all you can see below you is a blanket of cloud - one of the most amazing things ever
Another view of the new snow from the lift
Top of the t-bars on Whistler - couldn't go down the blue run because they were training for the Olympics (Vancouver 2010)
Going up the Peak lift on Whistler
Whistler PEAK!! Very cold up here
Looking down from the peak....
Valley view from peak
Day 5
OK so no photos on day 3 or 4, but these nights I stayed at the Fireside lodge - only $30 a night for the luxury of dark rooms, a comfortable bed and quiet before midnight
Looking down the Saddle from Whistler peak
Same...
I skiid with Joseph, one of the Mexicans on day 5 - the others were too slow! We didn't shy away from trying to kill ourselves either - this was a black run down from the peak
I don't really know where the above 3 are from, I know its looking down Whistler, I know the runs were hard (tried a double black here too) and we got extremely sore feet coming down here
After exploring Whistler for almost 4 days we decided Blackcomb might be a goer, this is a view down from the Excelerator lift from the base, you can see what kinda bad season they are having!
Joseph the mexican dude...hardcore boarder!
Our most ambitious run yet, and probably one of the hardest at the whole resort - this double black bowl was icey, extremely steep but heck...
This run is called "spanky's ladder"
This is the view from the top of the Jersey Cream bowl on Blackcomb
"Proposal Point" lol....
Are we crazy?????
After this we checked out the Nintendo terrain parks, tried some jumps, hurt our asses bigtime, then Joseph tried out the half pipe....
OK so that's it for the Whistler/Blackcomb pictures. I was only meant to go up for 3 days but it turned into 5, I couldn't go home! Have definitely improved my skiing a lot.
Some goings on before midterms
So you would think on the weekend before midterms I would be studying.... but no, on Friday night there was a massive party at Fairview, and then we woke up the next morning to try to buy U2 tickets at 9.30am. Thought we missed out but then a few days later I got an email telling me that I had gotten 8 tickets, 25 rows back, right in front of the stage!! I don't even like U2 that much but everyone else is so excited, and it made the front page of the paper that they sold out so quick, so I feel obliged to be excited as well...
Anyway, so after we got the tickets, we're sitting around watching soccer and at around 2pm we decided it would be a good time to start playing a Mexican shot game...so between about 10 ppl we finished off close to 5 bottles of spirits, got extremely drunk and took lots of photos... all of which are too unsuitable to put on the web...sorry!
OK that's all. Cyas
Nick
OK for those who bother checking this, sorry I haven't updated it sooner... I had a few midterms last week, and since Friday I've been skiing every day @ Whistler! Anyway I have a few photos from Whistler to put up now - the views were amazing and the weather fantastic (although still not enough snow!) so enjoy....
Oh and OK, I'll put the captions underneath the photos now =P
Day 1
Here I am looking to the Whistler Mtn peak from the top of the Big Red lift
Rina looking down into the valley from the same place
The Roundhouse at the top of the Whistler Gondola. It takes around 30 minutes to get up here (this place is HUGE!) and as season pass holders we get 50% off all the food!
Looking over to Blackcomb Mtn from the Roundhouse
Traversing along the green runs from the Roundhouse down. I skiid with Rina on the first day so we stuck to the easy stuff
Again looking down into the valley...
The traversing here is great, always surrounded by trees on the lower mountain - although a bit too flat in parts
Having lunch @ the Roundhouse outdoors - what a day!
Top of the Harmony chairlift at Little Whistler Peak
Skiing down the Burnt Stew Trail from Little peak
View down from the Burnt Stew Trail
Same again
Day 2
The next morning - 4cm of snow overnight! this is looking down the road from the UBC lodge where we stayed... the place is kinda a hole, the beds are uncomfortable and its noisy and light, but hey - $18 a night is pretty cheap
FOG!! Skiing through this really sux - can't see a thing
View from the lift going up
OK this is amazing, when you go up the lift you literally go through the clouds and all you can see below you is a blanket of cloud - one of the most amazing things ever
Another view of the new snow from the lift
Top of the t-bars on Whistler - couldn't go down the blue run because they were training for the Olympics (Vancouver 2010)
Going up the Peak lift on Whistler
Whistler PEAK!! Very cold up here
Looking down from the peak....
Valley view from peak
Day 5
OK so no photos on day 3 or 4, but these nights I stayed at the Fireside lodge - only $30 a night for the luxury of dark rooms, a comfortable bed and quiet before midnight
Looking down the Saddle from Whistler peak
Same...
I skiid with Joseph, one of the Mexicans on day 5 - the others were too slow! We didn't shy away from trying to kill ourselves either - this was a black run down from the peak
I don't really know where the above 3 are from, I know its looking down Whistler, I know the runs were hard (tried a double black here too) and we got extremely sore feet coming down here
After exploring Whistler for almost 4 days we decided Blackcomb might be a goer, this is a view down from the Excelerator lift from the base, you can see what kinda bad season they are having!
Joseph the mexican dude...hardcore boarder!
Our most ambitious run yet, and probably one of the hardest at the whole resort - this double black bowl was icey, extremely steep but heck...
This run is called "spanky's ladder"
This is the view from the top of the Jersey Cream bowl on Blackcomb
"Proposal Point" lol....
Are we crazy?????
After this we checked out the Nintendo terrain parks, tried some jumps, hurt our asses bigtime, then Joseph tried out the half pipe....
OK so that's it for the Whistler/Blackcomb pictures. I was only meant to go up for 3 days but it turned into 5, I couldn't go home! Have definitely improved my skiing a lot.
Some goings on before midterms
So you would think on the weekend before midterms I would be studying.... but no, on Friday night there was a massive party at Fairview, and then we woke up the next morning to try to buy U2 tickets at 9.30am. Thought we missed out but then a few days later I got an email telling me that I had gotten 8 tickets, 25 rows back, right in front of the stage!! I don't even like U2 that much but everyone else is so excited, and it made the front page of the paper that they sold out so quick, so I feel obliged to be excited as well...
Anyway, so after we got the tickets, we're sitting around watching soccer and at around 2pm we decided it would be a good time to start playing a Mexican shot game...so between about 10 ppl we finished off close to 5 bottles of spirits, got extremely drunk and took lots of photos... all of which are too unsuitable to put on the web...sorry!
OK that's all. Cyas
Nick
posted by Unknown | 3:06 am
8 Comments:
Hey Nick, great photos! What's a black? Love, Mum.
Dude,
Awesome photos.
I'm so going..
-Andrew
lol hey mum, a its just the level of difficulty of the ski run - green is easiest, then blue, then black, then double black. =)
whoa..awesome photos! i wanna go skiing now! :D
wow more awesome photos! the blue and whites look so crisp and inviting! joel is ALWAYS going on about whistler.....now i see what he means. u didn't tell us how many times you stacked it! =)
luv, trish
hey hey! im in vienna now and its cold and snowing here too. I was wondering how cold is it in Canada? here the average is 0 degrees. I put some photos up on my blog of cars covered in snow. do u get that too? its so funny
Hey Nick
I thought you went over to learn/study (ha,ha,ha!!!) Sounds like you are having way too much fun. The pics are fantastic - almost makes me wanna learn how to ski. Nana & Papa say hi, as do the kids.
Catcha,
Heather
hey its kim! hows it going buddy, i am in andorra atm (between spain and france) where taxes dont exist on ciggies and alcahol and i been snowboarding with a couple of american boys i found outside uni. we literally decided to go whilst standing around doing nothing and went that night. snowboarding is pretty awesome, hard as hell, but you are so lucky whistler is as sunny as that. in andorra its so cold, like minus 20 and yesterday it was so windy and about 20 cm of snow falls every nigh so visibility is so hard. anyways sounds like you are having an awesome time!! stay safe! love kim
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