January 18, 2003
Lifts/Runs
Lifts Open: 10/10
Runs open: 106/106
Snowfall
24 Hour: 0cm (0in)
48 Hour: 0cm (0in)
7 Day: 11cm (4in)
Year to date: 311cm (124in)
Snow Pack: 162cm (65in)
Text and photos by Gerry George
Wind was the name of the game on Sunday. Strong blustery winds. Most people hate the wind but being a windsurfer I think it is a grand thing. What does that have to do with skiing you ask? Well, when the wind is cranking it tends to deposit wonderful accumulations in the nooks and crannies around the ski hill so that you can ski the same line all day and still have fresh smooth tracks. I like to look for the gullies and between the bumps for the best, sifted snow around. Today it could be found in the Cedar Bowl and there was some wonderfully fun snow right down the gut of Boomerang.
Visibility for the day was once again less than stellar as the same band of cloud seems to be just hanging in the valley. The face lift was operational this weekend but the visibility was nasty. I am assuming that is was similar over on White Pass. Doug (the guy in orange) provided us with highly visible “see food” antics at lunchtime though. He said he learned it from his eight year old daughter but I have a feeling he was the one who taught her. I’d show you the picture but it makes me too nauseous. Better left to the imagination.
It was once again deadsville on the mountain but that just suits me fine really. I sorta dig skiing right onto the lifts. Perhaps people had the same sorta feeling I first had, ‘ah, it hasn’t snowed for a few days, maybe I will just work around the house this weekend.’ I am glad Anna dragged me up on Sunday cause I had a lot of fun ripping around.
Next weekend is the big World Cup Freestyle events at FAR. Moguls and Aerials. Big events in Fernie always equate to big annoying dumps so you can be sure it is going to snow like crazy next weekend. All week is calling for a chance of flurries with some periods of snow on Wednesday. If the flurries are anything like the flurries that fell around New Years then the snow blower is going to be working over time. Keep those fingers crossed.
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