Oh boy, was Whistler amazing today!! 86cm of new snow in last 48 hours, incredible 192cm in the last 7 days (!!) and a sweet base of 208cm. The cumulative snowfall so far is at 302cm - in November!
As one can guess, it was super busy with many traveling to Whistler to start their season on an amazing Pow Day. We left Burnaby right after 6am which is normally enough to easily make it to the first upload, but not today. Traffic was heavy all the way from Vancouver and after Alice Lake the heavy rain changed to heavy snowfall. I have never driven to Whistler in a heavy snowfall and the traffic became crawling. People with summer tires (and there were many) were in big trouble and we saw many Beamers and Audis stuck in snow.
They even said on Mountain FM that RCMP was conducting winter tire / chain inspections, as those were pretty much required, but we didn't see any police. It was very slippery even with winter tires, but we had no problems outside of the traffic that got completely standstill some 5 kilometers before Creekside, taking us 45 minutes to get in the parkade.
The crew had worked all night to open many new runs, but the heavy snowfall had covered everything and the snow was very deep even on the groomed runs. Lots of fun but also so much work to ski those runs and we only managed to do 6 runs during the whole day, as lift queues were very long. It was definitely the busiest first weekend I have ever seen in Whistler.
This was the deepest Powder Day I have ever seen in Whistler and I am sure that people who enjoy such were thrilled. The forecast calls for even more snow in the coming day, so pretty sure we will drive up again next weekend!
