{"id":3443,"date":"2010-01-13T21:02:10","date_gmt":"2010-01-14T07:02:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.studionewmedia.com\/blog\/?p=3443"},"modified":"2010-01-13T21:02:10","modified_gmt":"2010-01-14T07:02:10","slug":"rain-snow-and-freezing-level","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/studionewmedia.com\/blog\/index.php\/2010\/01\/13\/rain-snow-and-freezing-level\/","title":{"rendered":"Rain, Snow, and Freezing Level"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>We hit Whistler on Monday and Tuesday.\u00c2\u00a0 There was a good amount of snowfall on both days, supposedly around 15cm settled times two days, but the high freezing level made for some sticky, packing snow on Monday.\u00c2\u00a0 It was pretty much snow flurries at the top of green chair, and rain halfway down.\u00c2\u00a0 It was gruelling and miserable.\u00c2\u00a0 The snow was soft, but very heavy and difficult to ride on.\u00c2\u00a0 Tuesday had a higher freezing level and more new snow, so we returned to Whistler to crank some stashes of untracked, deep powder.\u00c2\u00a0 The alpine areas were still undergoing avalanche control, so were not open.\u00c2\u00a0 It was still raining down at the green chair base, but\u00c2\u00a0it wasn&#8217;t too bad.\u00c2\u00a0 At least the snow was soft.\u00c2\u00a0 Today,\u00c2\u00a0they opened Seventh Heaven up again, so\u00c2\u00a0we returned to Blackcomb.\u00c2\u00a0 Two days worth of\u00c2\u00a0deep snow made for lots of fun in the gladed areas.\u00c2\u00a0 The open bowls were pretty windswept, and there was not much new development over what\u00c2\u00a0was there on Sunday.\u00c2\u00a0 Hopefully the Whistler alpine\u00c2\u00a0areas will be open tomorrow so we will have some new powder to cut up.\u00c2\u00a0 Rain will probably return to the area tomorrow afternoon, but hopefully the freezing level will remain low.\u00c2\u00a0 I&#8217;m not really optomistic.<!--more--><\/p>\n<p>Oh, yeah, there are some more pictures up on the gallery.\u00c2\u00a0 You know where to look.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We hit Whistler on Monday and Tuesday.\u00c2\u00a0 There was a good amount of snowfall on both days, supposedly around 15cm settled times two days, but the high freezing level made for some sticky, packing snow on Monday.\u00c2\u00a0 It was pretty much snow flurries at the top of green chair, and rain halfway down.\u00c2\u00a0 It was [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false,"jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true},"categories":[16,18],"tags":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/paJYlx-Tx","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/studionewmedia.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3443"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/studionewmedia.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/studionewmedia.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/studionewmedia.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/studionewmedia.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3443"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/studionewmedia.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3443\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/studionewmedia.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3443"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/studionewmedia.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3443"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/studionewmedia.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3443"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}