Whistler 2011 / 2012 - The Community Blog
To anyone who’s shredding Whis tmrw, have fun shredding pow off peak chair. Their opening it tmrw.
Thanks for the quick reply rider26,
I had a look at the south side hostel, im going to go with the hi whistler hostel. I no a few people who have stayed there and they have had no bad things to say about it.
I will be traveling alone. I got sick of people saying they were going to go, then pulling out last limit. If it’s anything like australia and nz it should be pretty easy to meet people to ride and party with..
That’s a damn good deal!!!!!
Hotel close to the lifts????? Hakuba????? Who ya flyin with?????
Hey, wait a minute!!!!! You been sayin how ya jelous of everyone goin to Whis!!!!!!!!!! And your goin to Japow!!!!!!
Lol I am jelouse at ppl staying for a season lol
Sorry I just checked my booking it’s was $2145 in total.
Flying with jet star +30kg extra + multimedia package
Hotel is 200 m from happo-one
Yep hakuba .
$2100, Twin room, Jetstar + Baggage on Happo-One.
JAPOW Here we come!
Thanks for the quick reply rider26,
I had a look at the south side hostel, im going to go with the hi whistler hostel. I no a few people who have stayed there and they have had no bad things to say about it.
I will be traveling alone. I got sick of people saying they were going to go, then pulling out last limit. If it’s anything like australia and nz it should be pretty easy to meet people to ride and party with..
Get in touch with Rider, Finney, Just Giver (Michelle), Black Banana and the rest of the Whistler crew and you’ll have a blast… I think everyone on this forum wishes they were doing a Whistler season this year!!!
Rider’s Blog: Day 3
The big news today was the opening of Peak Chair on Whistler Mountain. For those of you who don’t know, Peak Chair accesses arguably the best inbounds alpine terrain on Whistler Mountain. It was another beautiful day up there; cold temps and sunshine.
As expected, there was quite a decent line-up at Peak Chair but it moved quickly and I was on the lift in 10 minutes. Shale Slope and most of the front face already had tracks by the time I was on the lift and it looked rather windblown, so I decided to head towards VD trees to find fresh lines.
Whistler Bowl was quite fresh; nice and soft with no typical moguls. I had to stop for a few minutes to take in the scenery and enjoy the moment of being back on the top of Whistler Mountain. I headed over towards the trees however most of the snowpack was wind-blown, although fresh in some areas. Grande Finale (the ride-out to Highway 86) was pretty sketchy. Nothing too bad, just icy and bumpy.
I received a text from Finney saying he got his pass sorted and he was on his way up. We met up at the Roundhouse and did a quick run down to Red Chair. It’s awesome to be riding with Finney again. He was grinning ear to ear and he was proudly riding his new YES Tasman(iac). Good times!
We did several more laps down to Red and Emerald Chairs and we also checked out the lower part of Harmony. Harmony Chair was already running and there were lift ops crew down the bottom, getting ready for the official opening tomorrow. I’m guessing it won’t be as windblown up there as it was at Peak, but I guess we won’t know for sure until we get up there.
They had snow guns working at full capacity all the way from the bottom of Red to the bottom of Creekside. There’s must have been at least 4 guns blowing all the way down. They have been making heaps of snow and the cover was already noticeably better. It shouldn’t be too long beter they get the cats out there.
Peak Chair
A hive of activity: top of Peak
Black Tusk
Looking over to Blackcomb from Whistler Bowl
View from Whistler Bowl
Looking down to the Roundhouse
Another from Whistler Bowl
Now there’s a familiar face!
Looking towards Harmony Chair from the top of Red Chair
And again, closer view. Might give a better idea of current snow conditions.
Top of Red
Snow guns on the way to Creekside
Guns working hard
And again…
How’s the Tasmaniac finney?????
Awesome Jez!! Jealous!! And hello finney! 
I can finally stop hitting refresh on this page now that I’ve had my daily Jez update.
Definitely looking into whistler after Japan.
I just did an 8km walk with Lucky. We were meant to walk to the Village to meet Michelle at 3:30 but we, ummm, took a wrong turn and went the (very) long way. We kept her waiting till 4:45 haha. 
Awsome ! Sitting in a bar in van so stoked im here :D. Cant wait to see it for myself tommrow 
. Yayayayya. Just need to get a job now lol .....
Hahahaa!!!!!
Did she have her new baseball bat out when ya got there????? 
And Lucky must love it when you guys show up at the start of the season!!!!!
We arrived at Michelle’s family home in Vancouver at 7am and Lucky went nuts! He woke up the whole house! But yeah, he loves it here in Whistler. We’ve dognapped him for the season.
What’s the go with the Hockey games in Van, as well?????
You were talkin about easy to get to one and back from Whis????? How much????? How easy to get ticks?????
I’ve never been to an Ice Hockey game before, so that sounds like it could go on the wish list for our visit!!!!!
How’s the Tasmaniac finney?????
amazing doesn’t even come close to explaining just how good this board is, super fast base and really noticed the asymetrical heel edge today, really locks in a lot better and have a lot more power on heel side turns/carves
Awesome Jez!! Jealous!! And hello finney!
Hello Billy 
Was great to get back up Whistler today, instantly felt great on the new board and had a blast just cutting some laps with Jeremy again. Can’t wait to get back up there again tomorrow and hit up Harmony after having a bit of a taste of it today.
C ya tomorrow Finney!