Day 66 | Peak Chair before 9am

I am scheduled to work eight days in a row but on day three, I was called off.  Go figure.  I talked Irish into taking the morning off and going for a shred.  We weren't expecting much for snow but thought it would be nice to finally ride together.  Whistler Blackcomb reported 7cm (4 inches) of snow this morning.  But it was forecasted to snow all day reaching accumulations of up to 30cm.

We reached the top of Red Chair at 8:30am and noticed that Peak Chair was open.  Giddy up!  The visibility was terrible, the winds were moderate but the snow looked amazing.  We decided to check out Shale Slope as a first run.  We picked our way through the low visibility and it didn't take us too long to realize there was a hell of a lot more fresh snow up there than just 4 inches.  Fresh tracks down Shale and up again on Peak.

Second run we were hoping to get into Christmas Trees but didn't make the high traverse and dropped down into Frog Hollow.  Fresh tracks to Highway 86!
Next attempt at Christmas Trees.  This time we both made it.  Fresh tracks all the way through the trees!  Simply amazing!  "Let's do that again" - I screamed!  So we did.

We were in line at Red Chair around 11am and realized the winds had picked up enough to put the Peak Chair on Standby.  No worries .... we headed to Harmony.  Visibility on Harmony was next to nothing.  We ran the Ridge heading to Gun Barrels.  It was quite a trek to get there since we couldn't see a thing.  I kept falling and getting dizzy.  Once we got to the meadow, the visibility was so much better.  Fresh tracks through the meadow and when we dropped down into Gun Barrels, we couldn't believe how deep the snow was in there.  It was up to my thighs in some places.  All untouched and super soft!  "It's so fluffy!"
AMAZING!

It was getting close to noon and Irish had to get to work but he easily talked himself into one more run down Gun Barrels.  It was snowing so much throughout the day that by the time we got back up there, our first tracks were already covered!

Alas it was finally time for him to head to work.  I went inside the Roundhouse for some lunch and a much needed break around 1:15pm.  Once I was rested, I met Emma over on Blackcomb and took one run through the powder over there.  Through some trees and finally back down to the village.  By now I was exhausted.

The day was amazing!  Never have I had so much fun and done such awesome runs.  I wish the visibility was better but you can't have everything.  The snow was perfect ... and there was a lot of it.  You can't ask for more than that!  Welcome back Winter.