Finally catching a break in what seems to be an endless stream of cold and snowy weather in the south coast, Andrei and I headed up to Whistler today to catch some good, sunny, and not so cold/windy weather. It is the first time that the weather had been this great up at Whistler in the last 3 weeks that I’ve been back on the better side of the Rockies.

Here’s a panorama from Blackcomb Mountain just beneath the 7th Heaven Lifts. You can see the 6MB monster in its full glory, or view the Photosynth. That little pointy rock you see towards Whistler mountain is none other than the Mt. Black Tusk that I’ve been dying to go back to.

The new Peak-2-Peak gondola that they’ve installed at Whistler is super duper sweet. How sweet? Here’s a sweet 3mb stitch of it. (It’s my first time on it. I’m a little overly excited. =P)

Just how tall is it?

Oh dear. That’s about 436 m above the ground.

The weather was excellent today. However, the best parts of the Blackcomb and Whistler mountains were closed due to the high risk of avalanche. In fact, two people died yesterday. The snow condition of the remaining parts that were open varied from soft packed, hard packed, and down to rock solid ice (ouch!).

Aw