Its been a mixed first week skiing since we got back to Whistler - 3 days of sub-zero clear skies conditions on the mountain, 1 day of wet snow, 1 OK day once I got above the valley cloud base, another day of wet snow. Decided today was going to be a rest day anyway as the forecast was heavy rain all the way up the mountain, and as it turns out all but 1 low level lift are currently closed, probably due to high winds - there is a series of fairly serious storms and unseasonably warm weather hitting the southern BC coast at the moment and flooding warnings for north vancouver.
The thighs have been holding up OK with the new skis - figure the cycling before we went back to the UK helped a bit with that - but everything else has taken a bit of a battering and is complaining after a couple of hours, so I've just been skiing mornings so far. In my defence as I'm skiing solo i'm basically running laps on the chair lifts and not stopping on the slopes, so keeping up a fair pace. And there are only a few lifts and runs open as its still early season.
11 days until Kevin arrives as our first visitor - hopefully more of the mountain will be open by then, and I can last a bit longer on the slopes.
The thighs have been holding up OK with the new skis - figure the cycling before we went back to the UK helped a bit with that - but everything else has taken a bit of a battering and is complaining after a couple of hours, so I've just been skiing mornings so far. In my defence as I'm skiing solo i'm basically running laps on the chair lifts and not stopping on the slopes, so keeping up a fair pace. And there are only a few lifts and runs open as its still early season.
11 days until Kevin arrives as our first visitor - hopefully more of the mountain will be open by then, and I can last a bit longer on the slopes.
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