Today was our last snowboarding day in Whistler for this trip. We were up early to queue up or the Whisler gondola, but there was still a long line. All the American long-weekenders, fair weather Canadian snow hounds, and local Vancouverites displaced by the closing of two of the town mountains to preserve the snow for the Olympics were represented in vast numbers. Avalanche conrol was sill bombing the mountain when we got up top, but the peak chair was running, so that was a good sign that they were opening the alpine areas. We took a warm-up run down green, but everything was amazingly chopped up, even though it was early. The lift queue was nuts!
At the top, I got inspired to hike the cat track over to the edge of Harmony bowl so we could drop into some untracked territory, and return to green, but afer hiking around the corner, we could see that the Harmony lift was moving! We blasted through some slightly windpacked fresh and followed the bowl down to the lift base. Riding up, we could now see that the Symphony lift was running! The powder poaching pirates would not be denied today! We entered the far end of the bowl and sliced through the terrain we crept blindly through earlier in the week. Blasting through knee-deep fluff, we made it to the bottom of the Symphony lift. We sessioned the area for a while, but the crown grew steadily and the lift queues became inordinately long, so we decided to make out way back to the top of the gondola. The terrian was already ridden out by lunchtime, so the fun factor had dropped significantly. The last wait at the Harmony base was over half-an-hour! Our final descent was the face just above the top of green chair after we descended the ridge from Little Whistler peak. Powder to the end!
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