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| Morning line up for the Gondola |
Woke up to 9 inches of new snow. Great way to start the day. Had to dig out the car from a winddrift. The city of Revelstoke has a 1.2 million dollar budget for snow removal. This January they have already spent 600k.
They open the lift at 8:30am, and we left for the hill at 7:50am, as we are only 5 minutes away from the ski hill. One thing we remembered from the last time we were here, was the Gondola line was huge on powder days. When we arrived, it was much longer than our last trip. I think it's pretty standard to have a huge line-up for powder days. The only way to access the mountain is the one gondola. Rumor was we needed to be in line by 7:30 to be up front.
As we traveled upward on the second gondola, we could see there was still plenty of untracked powder. With a vertical of 5,400 feet, longest in north america, there is a lot of space to spread out. Had a great day with the claimed 9 inches of new skiing more like a foot.
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| Rest break. |
Day 2 saw sunny weather. Skied the North Bowl and then headed to the huge sidecountry on the south side. . Didn't really hike. Traversed into some nice snow. Another great day.
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| Francine in North Bowl, took the Lemming entrance and traversed into bowl. |
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| Gondola shot at coffee break |
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Side-country skiing. Lots of fresh powder
protected by bad visibility in the morning. Would have been perfect to skin for a little better ski lines. |
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| POW |
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| Still lots of fresh snow |
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| Lunch in the sun |
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| Birds were aggressively swooping for food |
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| Another side country shot |
1 comment:
Gonna stop complaining about the wait on Chair 2 . . .
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