Day 6 - 45cm Base

To give you an idea of how much snow we DON'T have, here are some statistics:  November snowfall in 07/08 was 162cm (5ft).  November snowfall in 06/07 was 416cm (13.6ft)!  Today (Dec 2nd) we have a total snow base of 45cm (1.4ft)!!!!!

Day 6, I was given a Ride Tribe class (13-17yr olds) because there were no instructors scheduled to work Ride Tribe.  Reservations showed zero kids in this age group so there was no point in having any instructors scheduled.  My kids showed up last minute and since we had enough instructors for the younger kids, we gladly helped Ride Tribe.  

The boys were friends from Singapore and when asked to rate their snowboarding skills, like most teenage boys, they overstated their skill level.  Since they told me how awesome their shredding talent was, I immediately took them up to the Alpine only to find out their abilities weren't quite up to the skill level needed to ride the trails up there.  Not to mention, the snow in the Alpine was a complete sheet of ice!  Even I didn't want to be up there.

Luckily the guys weren't too thrilled with the ice either.  After one run, I asked if they wanted to head back to the CLC where the snow was much softer and where we could practice turning.  They were both interested in doing that.  Thank God.

**Note:  I teach at the Children's Learning Center.  It is about 1/3 of the way up the mountain.  It's a great teaching area (when there is snow) as there are many small bunny hill type trails to learn on.  The Alpine is almost at the top of Whistler (over 6,000 ft).  Here your skills need to be up to par as an advanced beginner or higher level.  There are no bunny hill type trails in the Alpine.