Day 83 - lots of pow for a lil ripper

The Pineapple Express has left the "building"- leaving behind over 55cm in 48 hours.  Our snow base is now 272cm.  The sun was shining today and the temperatures have cooled down, taking most of the moisture out of the snow.  The Alpine didn't open last the last couple of days, so all that new snow was untouched as of this morning.  Thousands of people rolled into Whistler to find that champagne powder.  At 9:15am, the lift line for BOTH gondolas was past Zog's in the Village .... There was at least a 20 minute wait at all Alpine lifts for the entire day.  I overheard someone saying the Harmony wait at 3pm was over a half hour.  It might have been busier than xmas today.

Amalia was racing her dad at 10:23am but I knew he wasn't going to make it to the GMC Race Centre for that time as he would have had to stand in the long lift lines.  They raced an hour after their start time but beforehand, Amalia and I explored some of the powder off Jersey Chair.

It was such a beautiful sunny warm day.  We took the Peak 2 Peak over to Whistler so we could eat lunch.  We found some nice powder on the way to the CLC also.  Half way down Emerald Chair, the soft snow turned icy and it was ice all the way to the Village.

After lunch, we took Oak on a short run to the gondola.  He didn't seem too keen to snowboard today so we spent the rest of the day sledding in the shovel at the CLC.