“It’s amazing you can ski down a hill that slowly”

On my first day in Whistler I went downhill skiing with my Dad and sister. It was my first time downhill skiing in two years so Dad and Alli took it easy on me. By easy I mean they took me down most of the Dave Murray Downhill which will be used for the Men’s Olympic downhill race in 2010! Actually, they were really great about taking things slowly for me. See I am a super conservative downhill skier. I like to be in control because the last thing I want to do is tear and ACL or something like that! When Mom saw a video clip of me skiing down a steep hill she actually said “It’s amazing you can ski down a hill that slowly!” Yea, a speedster I am not!

We had several large snow dumps while we were in Whistler which made for lots of powder on the hills. You could actually hear people on the hills spontaneously letting out squeals of joy and they skied/boarded through the powder. Overall the conditions were great even though on some days the alpine lifts weren’t open due to high winds/poor visibility/avalanche risk. My favourite was when there was 5-10cm of fresh snow over perfectly groomed trails.

Later on in the trip I had the idea of wearing my Garmin while skiing. Below you can see the routes that we took over three different days of skiing on Whistler and Blackcomb. We definitely tried to cover as much of the mountain as we could!