Stayed at: Slopeside! Legends at Creekside
Conditions:
Day 1 - Sunny at Whistler
Day 2 - Fog at mid-mountain at Blackcomb.
Day 3 - Sunny at Blackcomb.
Day 4 - Sunny morning, then cold at Whistler.
After a delightful time the prior year, we came to repeat the trip. Although ski conditions did not repeat, we had some nice sunny days and several guest skiers on day 3 (Jon's brother Dan & Fink's friend Eli). Whistler is definitely one of the best planned resorts with a huge variety of terrain - the Blackcomb Glacier was a definite standout.
Click any of these pictures for our ski photo album (last 2 feature our guests):
Now, if only we could get our weekend to coincide with the snow they started getting after we left on the 4th (although they had a totally dry January/1st half of February - not a great year for them):
New Snow in inches
 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 7 | 1 | 6 | 10 | 4 | 8 | 29 | 15 | 7 | 2 | 1 |
| 04 | 05 | 06 | 07 | 08 | 09 | 10 | 11 | 12 | 13 | 14 | 15 | 16 | 17 |
from Mar 3, 2003 to Mar 17, 2003
Oh yeah - before next year's trip, Mark plans to take a lesson in getting on & off the chair & t-bar. He managed to fall off the chair, fall off the t-bar and fall while getting off the chair all in one day. It was quite amusing (for Jon & Jonathan). In his defense, he dislocated his shoulder 3 weeks before the trip, but still came. And he was able to keep track of his skis the whole weekend - a first! He's a trooper. This was also the year that Fink vowed to "change his behaviour" and be less antagonizing to Mark. He's got a bruise on his shin in the shape of a skiboot to remind him of this vow.