It’s our final day. Nathan and Bob took off for snowboarding at 8:00. We got three more inches of snow overnight. The snow crews had groomed before the snow fell. Its like corrugated under the fresh powder. The snow is so light and fluffy, it wont pack into a snowball. The trails were in excellent condition.
The ride of the day was the Blakcomb Glacier Run; 4.7 miles long!! To get there, we rode the Blackcomb gondola, took a very long chair lift farther, then used the summit t-bar (neither of us had ever done that, ugh) to reach a point where we had to climb up about 50 ft by foot (carrying our boards) to reach the summit. It felt like we were on mars. The wind was howling, Bob had trouble breathing. Then standing at the top and looking down, it was nearly vertical. Scariest run of our lives! In the pictures, you can see the boards stuck in the snow. That’s right at the edge of a 1000 foot drop.
Later in the day, we went down to bring Lynn up the mountain for lunch. She didn’t care much for the cafeteria style food but loved the views. Together we took the Peak2Peak gondola between mountains. That’s an amazing feat of engineering. She went down by herself and Bob and Nathan stayed up for more runs.
I’m not sure how we could top this trip unless more people join us. Who’s in?
