Day 39 | Return of the Shred-i

Irish and I packed up the truck early Friday morning and headed down to Mt Baker.  They received 3 feet of new snow over the last couple of days and another 9-13 inches was forecasted to fall throughout the day Friday.  We were super excited since Whistler hasn't been receiving much snow this season.

We reached the bottom of the Forest Road around 8:00am and things were looking good.  The road was plowed perfectly, the snow was falling, the temperature hovered just under freezing.  Suddenly, something weird happened.  As we drove higher, it started getting warmer.  The snow changed to rain.  I reassured Irish that we had a long way to go before we hit the ski area and it was going to get colder as we kept driving.  Nope!  No such luck.  When we pulled into the parking lot, it was raining.

Rain or snow, we weren't going to turn around and go back to Canada so we bundled up, bought our cheap (compared to Whistler prices) lift tickets and headed up the chair.  The highest chair at Mt. Baker is just over the 5,000 foot level.  It was snowing at that level but it was raining not too far below it.  For a rainy day, the snow was nice.  It wasn't too heavy and there was a lot of fresh tracks to be found.  We worked our way around the entire park for the next three hours.  By noon I was soaked ... and needed to change my gloves and eat some lunch.  Once I was able to dry off and warm up, I wasn't up to going back outside and getting wet again.  We called it a day and headed back to Canada.  We're hoping to get down there a couple more times this season depending on what the snow does.