Day 25 - (interesting) Merry Christmas

Our Christmas tradition is Fresh Tracks breakfast on top of Whistler Mountain on Christmas morning.  No new snow overnight and we didn't think that many people would be interested in Fresh Tracks so we showed up to the Village around 6:50am only to find about 200 other people had the same idea as we did.  By that time, the queue had gone past the Salomon store and because they only allow about 100 people up for breakfast, we knew we weren't going to make it into that 100.  Instead we got back into the car and parked at Creekside where we enjoyed a semi-okay brekky at Dusty's Backside.

It was sunny and cold today.  We loaded into the Creekside gondi around 9:15am and got stuck about a third of the way up Red Chair for at least 20 minutes.  When the chair doesn't move for that long, you know there's a serious problem.  Sure enough, once we reached the top, we were greeted with a $10 WB voucher and informed that all the power on Whistler had gone out.  All the chairs were running on auxiliary power.  Because it was so cold, we immediately went into the Roundhouse to warm up.  Power, obviously, was out in there too.

We decided to take a run down to Emerald Chair.  Surprisingly, at this time the lift lines weren't crowded but the chair did keep stopping so we decided to just head home and open Christmas gifts.  It wasn't much more of a groomer day anyhow.  Although, full Peak to Creek was the Run of the Day and we were hoping to do that, however I don't think they got the Peak Chair running for the remainder of the day.