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West Coast snow report: 2,5m deeeep

November 20, 2009 By Stano Faban 2 Comments

Early season conditions are long time gone.
No one remembers them anymore.
White fluffy stuff keeps fallin’,
So the brave can be rollin’.
This little poem created in less than 60 seconds says it all. Simply, the current West Coast snow conditions are out of this world.

breaking-trail
Yes, there were some poor equipment choices made. But who knew Nov 14th is a mid-winter date. Thin rock skis ain't good for deep and fluffy.
Two weeks ago there was about 20cm of snow on the ground at 1600m up Whistler Mountain or at Mount Baker ski area in US. During the next 3 days over 100cm came from the sky. Since then it didn’t stop.
And it is one thing that an astounding amounts of snow fell in the south-western BC over the past two weeks, but another thing is the quality.
Even though, not as consistent in fluffiness as the slopes of Columbia or Monashee Mountains, there is real Champagne powder to be had on the Coast these days.
Over the past 12 days I toured at 3 different resorts as it is simply too dangerous to go anywhere else: Mt Baker ski area, local resort above Vancouver and on a mountain that will hopefully stay closed for couple of more days.
I haven’t heard any ski reports from other places on the Coast but based on some highway cams it looks pretty damn good for this time of the year. Here’s some more proof.
Except the “Sleeping lifts” photo other pics were taken by some of my touring partners Dusan and Tomas. Thanks a lot.
Sleeping lifts on Nov 14th.
Sleeping lifts on Nov 14th.
Nov 14th.
Working slim skis felt like seventies. Nov 14th.
Back for more with fatter sticks. Nov 19th pics from here on.
Back for more with fatter sticks. Nov 19th pics from here on.
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Going down less than 30 degree slope was just...going down.
Going down less than 30 degree slopes was just...going down.
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No lift, no problem. Just the way it suppose to be.
No lift, no problem. Just the way it suppose to be.

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  1. peter says

    December 23, 2009 at 1:08 am

    wou! amazing stuff – you guys got it this year instead of Central Europe, jokin’

  2. James says

    November 22, 2009 at 7:11 pm

    That’ a little bit ridiculous looking actually. And it does look like suspiciously light pow. WTF? Good on you guys out there on the Coast.

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