Big White powder day

A bona fide powder day today at Big White. I woke up to 20+ cm overnight. It was always going to be a fun day.

I decided to snowboard the whole day. Rode mostly with Michelle, Dean, Bruce and Jarrod again. Darren made cameos but was learning how to ski again thanks to the pow.

The vis wasn't the best as usual so we decided to hit Black Forest again. It was blowing a gale up top and the traverse over to the chair required more speed than usual but once I made it over I did a run down Millies Mile and it was a nice layer of pow over the groomer. It felt SO fast and i must have been one of the first down there cos I got to lay fresh tracks.

Eventually caught up with everyone else and we did some more runs down the groomers. Lots of whooping and hollering, spraying each other and trying to launch off anything and everything. Good times. We eventually started heading into the trees and continued to find fresh in there. To top it all off the vis had come right too!

Ended out having a slightly early lunch and then headed back out to try Powder Chair where we had had success yesterday. Trouble was the vis had gone again so we decided to do runs off the Snow Ghost Express. It turned out to be a good choice. We found some great snow there and the pitch was a bit better than Black Forest. We continued to find stuff to launch off and just played around in the powder till the lifts closed.

But it wasn't destined to end there. Night skiing was on tonight so after a quick apres beer we suited up again and headed out at 5pm! Penny came out for a run this time and Melissa did too.

5pm isn't quite dark yet and only a few runs were open but it ended out being much much better than I expected. The main run open was Sun Run (a green) and it was pretty tracked out but we just ended out bombing down it doing speed runs. I whipped out the camera and was doing some filming too.

Then we headed to the terrain park. The border cross was still full of powder so we hit that a few times and then did a run on the rails. I managed to cack myself on the very first one but managed to tweak out a little board slide action on the rest. Lots of fun.

This will probably be our best day at Big White I'd say. And although it may not the deepest or the steepest I've ever had it's probably one of the most fun days on the snow I've experienced.