Day 86 - booby buster

Back to work and still no new fresh snow.  Snow base is sitting at 246cm and it was warm and sunny today.  Groomers were medium packed with some icy spots.  Nothing great but nothing too terrible.  By late afternoon, the lower elevations were spring like slushy conditions.  I probably have a bit of a goggle tan starting.

Lunch was early so we stayed on Whistler for the morning.  We ran the trees between Green Acres and the terrain park.  We also took a lap through Marmot Trees down the gondola line.  The snow was okay.  It wasn't super soft but it wasn't icy either.  It was manageable.

After lunch we had a bit of an accident.  Peyton fell on a side hill close to the water tower on Crank It up.  She fell pretty hard on her tailbone and couldn't stand up.  I didn't realize this until I was already at the bottom of the gondola.  I ended up having to walk up to where she was hurt while the other kids waited at the gondola for at least a half an hour.  Peyton is okay, just badly bruised (boy I know how that feels).  Hopefully she will be back next week.

After the incident, we headed up Blackcomb and ripped through the Terrain Garden.  I made the kids practice switch and carving turns.  Our last run was down the Boarder Cross track and we finished with a snowboarding snowball fight.