Opening Day on Whistler Mountain!!!

Oh yeah - check out the stylers on the mountain!! hehe.. We managed to get in about 4 hours up the mountain yesterday before my legs decided to turn to jelly! The snow was awesome, powder in the morning - ahhh so sweet - and then it got a little wetter & heavier as the day went on and became a lot more work on the legalongs. ouch. We're still waiting on our shipment to be cleared from Vancouver so we were a mish-mosh of borrowed gear plus the new stuff we have.. Clay's snowboard, Rich's new bindings, a borrowed board from neighbours, new jackets, 2 very retro pairs of goggles from the re-use-it centre which did anything but de-fog hahaha.

The visibility up the top was awesome. With only 3 or 4 chairs open there's not a huge choice of terrain but man this place is MASSIVE. We can't imagine what it'll be like trying to find our way around once the whole of Whistler mountain opens, and then Blackcomb Mountain opens next Thursday too!! We're gonna be so lost. As we rode down lower the visibility went from awesome to less than a metre in front of you!! And let me just say, as rad as our goggles look (hmmm..), our retro gears weren't quite cut out for it. Fogged in outside and inside we finally packed it in about 1pm after the fog had started to spread up the mountain.

So - there we are! Finally doing what we came here to do. We bumped in to Ken from Rich's work who was fixing some I.T stuff up the top of the mountain and he took this snap, through gritted teeth, as he wanted to be out playing too!

Game on!!!!!!!!!!!!