Day 33 | Happy New Year!

2010 started off with the best powder of year!  WB claimed 8cm fell overnight but I believe there was more than that.  And because it was quite windy, the wind gusts blew the snow even higher in some places.   I told my kids to report to duty for 8:30am.  My plans were to take them across Peak to Peak and ride down Blackcomb.  Because they were fairly slow riders, it would take them until lunch to finish that run and the afternoon was sure to fly by.  Unfortunately, because of the winds, the P2P never opened.   Instead our first run was down Ego Bowl.  I was stoked to be riding in such great snow but the kids kind of had a hard time of it, especially the 8 year old.  By the time we got back up green chair, they were all freezing and wanted hot chocolate at the CLC.  Bummer.  We hit the gondola and downloaded to mid-station.

Because of the blizzard like conditions up top, the kids weren't too keen on going back up there.  So we spent the rest of our morning doing valley trail laps.  It wasn't too bad as there were plenty of fresh tracks to be found.  Personally I was disappointed to be teaching a lower level group (still) when it was a perfect pow day.  With the exception of one kid, these guys weren't really progressing too quickly.

My luck had changed during lunch though.  One kid was getting checked out at noon to ride with her mom and dad.  When Dad showed up, he decided to check out the cousins as well, since they looked so tired.  I said, "Sure!" - trying not to show my enthusiasm knowing with only the strong kid left in class, we could hit the pow back up top!  That's what we did.  We had enough time to take a lap down  through the powder on Ego Bowl, then ran down Pony Trail to Expressway.  He wanted to take Olympic Chair back up and ride down to the village via Fantastic so that's what we did.  The afternoon ended wonderfully, thus also ending two weeks of Adventure Camp.