Today was our last snowboarding day in Whistler for this trip.\u00c2\u00a0 We were up early to queue up or the Whisler gondola, but there was still a long line.\u00c2\u00a0 All the American long-weekenders, fair weather Canadian snow hounds, and\u00c2\u00a0local Vancouverites displaced by the closing of\u00c2\u00a0two of the town mountains to preserve the snow for the Olympics were represented in vast numbers.\u00c2\u00a0 Avalanche conrol was sill bombing\u00c2\u00a0the mountain when we got\u00c2\u00a0up top, but the peak chair was running, so\u00c2\u00a0that was a good sign that they were opening the alpine areas.\u00c2\u00a0 We took a warm-up run\u00c2\u00a0 down green, but everything was amazingly chopped up, even though it\u00c2\u00a0was early.\u00c2\u00a0 The lift queue\u00c2\u00a0was nuts!<\/p>\n
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\u00c2\u00a0afer hiking around the corner,\u00c2\u00a0we could see that the Harmony\u00c2\u00a0lift was moving!\u00c2\u00a0 We\u00c2\u00a0blasted through some slightly windpacked fresh and followed the bowl down to the lift base.\u00c2\u00a0 Riding up, we could now see that the Symphony lift was running!\u00c2\u00a0 The\u00c2\u00a0powder poaching pirates would not be denied today!\u00c2\u00a0 We entered the far end of the bowl and\u00c2\u00a0sliced through the terrain we crept blindly through earlier in the week.\u00c2\u00a0 Blasting through knee-deep fluff, we made it to the bottom of the Symphony lift.\u00c2\u00a0 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.\u00c2\u00a0 The terrian was already ridden out by lunchtime, so the fun factor had dropped significantly.\u00c2\u00a0 The last wait at the Harmony base was over half-an-hour!\u00c2\u00a0 Our final descent was the face just above the top of green chair after we descended the ridge from Little Whistler peak.\u00c2\u00a0 Powder to the end!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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