I have a hotel booked next Wednesday to Friday. I just hope my fucking car makes it there if all that snow actually falls.

Big White is already better than it ever was last season, hopefully work doesn't make me miss too many good days.

Revelstoke trip booked for in 2 weeks. They're expected to get up to 50 cm by Saturday, hopefully the snowfall pattern continues!

Not if its a shitty season this year as well

i never knew about cypress free lift tickets on your birthday =D

does that mean cypress, grouse and seymour will get that too???

:rukidding:
Ok, well be sure to post up all the good deals on this years seasons passes when they decide this year is shitty.
Do you know what a "good deal" is?

I think Cypress will get some but mostly rain.

Please post some Whistler pix when you are up there Westopher.

Will do. I'm very excited. Looks like a few friends are going to take the day off work and head up as well. I'd love to take my gopro, but no time to fuck around with that on a pow day lol.

I'm pretty stoked too. Heading up to whistler next weekend.. Missed out on that blackfriday deal tho :( 2 day lift ticket for $100

Spent the night in Creekside, and listened to rain fall all night. Wake up and the conditions looked meagre at best (.6 degrees at the top, and gusting to 90km/h) Solid rain in Creekside, at 2 degrees. Must be some sort of wicked inversion going on. Didn't even head up despite it being free. Till next week, lets hope for some cold weather, as there is certainly enough moisture.

The weather seems be like this in recent years

Sunny / dry / Cold - no snow , no moisture , fake snow
Raining - really warm locally , no snow , wet and soggy

I miss those cold winter days when it hovers around 2 or 3 degrees locally and snow up the mountains

Its really only been 2 shitty years, and only one of those being terrible. I remember riding park at Grouse in June in 2012. Its not always gonna be bad. Its not always gonna be good. Its too early, and honestly too decent at the moment to ring the alarm yet.

Anybody remember years ago when we used to have snow in November? Fun times.

We've always had snow in November, especially on the mountains.

Its more so, remembering when mountains opened in early November that I miss the most.

The memory that I am most fond of, was when I fractured my pelvis the second week of November when cypress opened up mad early 4 years ago. Took me out of commission for 8 weeks

By then I had already rode 10+ times

^ yeah I meant to say early November.

Looks like I'll be heading up to Whistler on December 19th. Anybody heading up the same weekend?

This also might be a nooby question but where do you guys get your face masks and how much? Lol I want a nice looking one to go boarding with...and that's not too expensive.

Whistler is getting hammered right now. It was deep up high and its going to be even deeper tomorrow. Was dumping in the village and on the highway. The rain turns to snow maybe 15 minutes past Squamish.

Cypress had pretty good snow today. Almost 30cm of fresh snow.

I grabbed a really nice one at Costco last season for $10, probably too late in the year to get one there though.

i was there today and they have full face ones

edit : my current face mask, i get a lot of kids staring at me
sorry for the bad pic, cropped some friends out

Went up to Big White yesterday and froze my ass off, windy as hell and got stuck sitting on the lift for 20 mins so we bailed early and went to watch the SnowX. I check the snow report today and there's 9" of fresh overnight :rukidding:

Help!
I'm drowning in pow!
Waist deep pow on Whis if you were willing to hike to it in Harmony bowl today. Easy half laps; combine green chair with skinning/bootpacking Pika's.

Looks like temperatures have a mild downward trend with the precip tapering off on the 11th or 12th.
Cypress/Grouse should be able to repair any rain damage with the city temps trending like they should.
Whis should be opening more of the alpine any day now. They had chairs on and off Peak twice today and then they were turning Harmony but had no chairs on it.
Symphony should hold good lines all week until the weekend crowd chops it all up on the 12-13th.

Midweek laps at Cypress for me followed by tours next weekend and the weekend after.

Good times ahead.
http://i.imgur.com/JpJ90JW.png

Anyone looking to come up to whistler with me?

Have a spare 2 day pass that can have your name on it for $105

Dec 19-20

I'll try and get a couple pics up. Had an all time kinda day in whistler. Hiked up 7th before it had opened yet this year and had some of the best turns I've had in the last 2 years. Hit some fun stuff up on Harmony in the bowls. Crystal had some good stuff and right when we got up there even under excellerator right on the sides of the runs was deep. Stuff needs to fill in more in the trees, but its coming. Overall a huge surprise how good it was.

Likewise Westopher. I'm still up there right now.. aside from the winds near the top and fog in some areas, its been pretty good. Debating if I should board again tomorrow as theres another wind warning. Its been snowing all day today though.