Day 14 - Skiing Revelstoke

The day started out fairly luckless but as we were loading up the truck our luck started to change as the radio stated that Revelstoke had received 6 cm of snow over night.  There is a fine line of wishing for snow for the skiing and not having too much snow to make the drive to the ski hill bad.  In our case it worked out well as we cleared Roger Pass with snow falling but none on the ground. Snow continued to fall throughout the day.

Along the Rogers Pass, driving condition are good.



The day would prove to be a tiring but enjoyable one.  Julie learned that the window for black diamonds is smaller than it used to be.   Well interesting how she always suggest we do a warm up run that is not a black diamond, that leaves a window after the warm up until lunch and then after lunch a few black diamonds and next thing you know she is suggesting some easier cool down runs.  Yes the window for black diamonds is only about 2 solid hours.  Not nearly as big as it used to be.   The window gets shorter if Julie finds herself in a pickle, i.e. one ski on and one off as demonstrated in the following photo.

Julie on her butt.  Ski fell off.



We found some powder on Revelstoke but you did have to look for it or hike for it.  Julie hated hiking up after I have paid for a lift ticket and with skis on my shoulder.  The run was excellent though after hiking up the Lemming Line.  The snow was falling quite a bit on the north side.  It was cloudy on the other side.  Almost white out conditions at times.  Revelstoke is a very, very, long hill.  The last run down went forever cause we went top to bottom (3 lifts to get there).  All in all an excellent day until we found out our hotel hot tub is broken.  Julie was extremely sad about it.

 

As soon as we got into our room we quickly tried to connect to the Ontario University track meet.  Ross is running Thurs. and Friday for University of Guelph.  His Achilles is injured but he is still running so it will be interesting to see how he does.  Part of our holiday will be to go watch the indoor National University track and field (CIS) which is being held in Edmonton.

We are going to head to the Village Idiot a local pub for dinner tonight, it is where Kevin and I had dinner the last time I skied Revelstoke 4 years ago.

Cheers Dawson and Julie