Winter is completely and utterly officially here, it feels like it hasn’t stopped snowing for three weeks, the stats haven’t come out yet but I can’t think of any day in that period that we didn’t at least get a dusting and we have had a bunch of 30 cm days and loads of 15cm days. This is my favourite when it tops itself up by 10 or 20 cm a day, it is not enough to get to much hype but it never really gets tracked during the day and then it gets loaded again at night. I can’t lie to you it is ridiculously fun and this season has reminded me why I love snowboarding so much.
The parks are also the best they have ever been and it is still very early days park wise so I am sure we will see some big improvements as well. Already the park on Blackcomb seems completely built compared with previous seasons. The intermediate park has stepup jumps this year which make it safer and the landings stay smoother longer. The higher level park already has a two four jump lines. Either the full size right line, a 30 foot step up to 30 foot step down, rolling into a nice long raised up box into a 40 ft kicker into a 45ft kicker, finishing up with a choice of down rails. The left line is gnarly, the last two jumps are 50 ft then 55 ft and you get to start with the shack jump which is so fun. I’ll leave you all with a link to Scott Stevens’ part from Think Thank’s “Thanks Brain” which is the most original shred section I have seen all year, well Gigi Ruff’s parts are always epic but still. Anyway thanks to crapneto for this, I saw the clip on their site and got all excited.
Any way here is the link
January 2nd, 2008
Opening time is almost here! After an unprecedented fall snowfall (it is snowing as I write down to 1800 metres!), speculation of an early opening has become rife around Whistler. I arrived back in town last night after a great summer traveling the southern hemisphere and was surprised to hear about snow on the ground that same morning. Early openings have happened before and if the weather stays like this, then it’ll be happening again.
Also we have a special spring bonus for the house with beds available for the March - April period at a great deal. If you are interested let us know but for now prices are too hot to be confirmed.
October 21st, 2007
We have had a busy summer. I’ve been down in New Zealand riding the snow down here and seeing new places. After a great summer, having met loads of amazing people I’m heading back to Whistler in the next month and am really looking forward to it. The mountains down here are a special experience, beautiful views, really friendly people, sunny days, has been an unforgettable experience. Still I can’t wait to get back to Whistler to catch up with friends, ride some decent length runs, hit the trees, ride the huge parks, get some bottomless pow turns, basicaly i’m hyped. The last two years have been so epic and everyone has been asking whether global warming or possible onsetting ice age is having influence on the weather. Either way while every where else is seeing droughts and mild climates Whistler has been getting blessed and I can’t wait to get back.
We still have a few beds left, for singles or couples and still have all the great features everyone asked for, trampoline, hot tub, free high speed internet, cable tele, the list goes on. If you want to have a good winter season get it sorted out soon so you won’t be dissapointed and personaly I highly recommend Whistler.
September 15th, 2007
Our new site is up and available for viewing. We have added a news section, a photo gallery, a guestbook, new content weather reports, park updates and assorted other stuff. Hope you all like it. Please have a look around and give us an e-mail if you have any suggestions. Look out for new content added as time goes on
March 22nd, 2007
Last weekend in Vail the yearly slopestyle and rail comped went off. Along with the Air & Style it is one of the few comps that push snowboarding and pros seem to enjoy (a nice change from the old style comps where competitor stoke and satisfaction is not important and pros seem to just go through the motions.
At Vail David Benedek from Germany throw down a groundbreaking run of switch backside 9, to backside 9, to switch frontside 9, to frontside Double-Cork 1260 and he didn’t even win. This is to say nothing about the groundbreaking rail setup at the end of the course which seemed to be a mixture of a concrete skatepark and the best ever snowpark. Here’s the links to the video clips, the slopestyle, the rail jam. so so rad
January 17th, 2007
Wicked fun new year’s here, everyone celebrating in different ways. Hope you had a good one too and good luck for the 07….
January 2nd, 2007
We had an amazing christmas this year. I have to admit I’m very lazy when it comes to events like these (to say the least), but the girls in the house were very pro-active in making sure that we had a great day. A hell of a lot of organization went into the meal and I was well impressed. With 12 people eating pulling together any meal is a nightmare but they excelled themselves with a lovely dinner. We even also had a mystery santa in the house who took it upon themselves to buy everyone else in the house a present out of the kindness of their heart, so that really set the day off.
December 27th, 2006
So this week I broke my ankle then two days later Aidy broke his collar bone, definitly a bit of an awakening. Going from riding freshies everyday to being stuck in the house and just getting to the shops being a huge mission is completely shocking. However I’ve always known this is part of snowboarding if I push myself so got to just make the most of this time off, going to try and get some more content up on this site to make the most of my couch time. Anyway six weeks off for me and Aidy so condolences out to us…. haha.
Happy Christmas all too.
December 15th, 2006
yeah we are getting blessed right now. forty centimetres today and 25 predicted tomo, with a further 30 and 40 for wednesday and thursday. While sadly enough europe has no snow we luckily already have a really good base and any new snow is an added bonus. The pillow lines are starting to bulge and all the landings are filled up so should be a great week.
December 12th, 2006
Now the snow has settled a bit the park staff have had the oppurtunity to get the parks up and running and that is exactly what they did.
Whistler has a couple of really fun lines with the choice of a small or medium line, both with about eight rails a few jumps pus all the natural features that there are on the Whistler park route. At the moment the mountain is still really empty and emerald chair is as fast as always so you can get in as many laps as your legs can take.
Blackcomb park is well on its way to its normal shred haven with a perfect four hit tabletop line. Really nice take offs and transitions. Then the super pipe is up at the end of the park too so a well fun line
December 12th, 2006
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