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Originally Posted by AR_Six
You are only sort of high. Louise and Castle are immediately disqualified by annual snowfall. They simply do not yield enough pow days.
There is a good argument to be made for KMHR, but I think it's a matter of personal preference between there and Revy. To be honest I don't even know what side of that argument I'd fall on.
Whistler... well first of all, Whistler kind of sucks imo, the lift layout is annoying in terms of getting in enough good ish in one day, though on bluebird its virtues shine. Blackcomb, however, is an awesome hill if you know where all the goods are. It will always be my home mountain, I have hundreds of days there. If you like coastal snow and don't mind flat light, it's great. But the crowds are brutal, the snow gets tracked out quickly and the village is essentially a black hole that swallows money faster than anywhere else I can think of outside of freaking Disneyland. On that basis, the interior hills have a lot on W/B. If you're counting anything other than terrain.
The other problem is related to the crowds - ever since we made the godawful, I-wish-we-could-take-it-back (though a lot of my friends have gotten well as a result so I don't really but just for skiing purposes) decision to make fat skis cool, everyone and their mom thinks they need to make the traverse out into lakeside and flute. It's ridiculous. Seven or eight years ago you could find something good and lap it with two or three other people and it'd be all good. Now, everything everywhere is tracked out by noon. I see people TAKING OFF THEIR GEAR and hiking backwards down sketchy traverses - if you can't ski well enough to GET there, then gtfo before I beat you to death with my ski pole and bury your corpse in booterville. Sparknotes version: gapers and tourists are a big problem at W/B, even more so than in Banff.
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You speak the truth AR_Six!
I think high-speed quad chairs cause grief too. I have a soft spot for Castle for that reason - you can ski there all day, the lifts limit the amount of acres that get tracked up. I have never seen anyone take skis off to walk down into a spot! That's f'ud up. I too have logged many moons at Blackcomb, mostly in the 80's before it got overrun by zombies. Whistler was only fun to go watch the the downhill races. Here's me and Steve P. in 1984. The black eye was from a 20 footer to a cat track with pole in the eye. Oh to be made out of rubber again...
