The coastal mountains of British Columbia are a magical place. I was a little worried coming into this with the historically bad lower-elevation snowpack, but it ended up not detracting from the experience whatsoever. Indeed, the conditions at the bottom of the Whistler resort were a little dire, but it was sooo white once you got up in the mountains proper.

If this is the starting view, how much better can it get?

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A lot of unfamiliar territory, but I can see it’s very white out there lol. Isosceles Peak area?

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Mount Davidson and the Cheakamus Glacier to its right

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Black Tusk

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Another angle of the Cheakamus Glacier and the Castle Towers Mountain above it

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The jagged Tantalus Range in the distance

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Black Tusk over Cheakamus Lake

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Looking back at the gentle slopes under Whirlwind Peak (Overlord Glacier)

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You can make out two ski tracks on Mount Lago if you look closely

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Skin tracks up to Cheakamus Mountain

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Cool textures under Veeocee Mountain

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Camps on the Diavolo Glacier. An overnight would be fun too.

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A look back at Overlord Mountain and the Fitzsimmons Glacier underneath. You can barely just make out four or so skiers on the skintrack to its left.

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Just enamored with the amount of white looking across the next drainage

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And all of the other distant peaks that keep going in the background

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Ascending the Curtain Glacier after descending Mount Macbeth earlier

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Looking back at Mount Macbeth and the four ski lines from us coming from the left

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Looking a long ways back to the Overlord Glacier

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The wide Tantalus Mountain all the way in the distance left of the Black Tusk

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Wedge Mountain, heh good times

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The sun now setting on our range

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One more look at the Black Tusk. Now just dark, headlamp-lit, resort skiing on ungroomed, refrozen, patchy resort snow/ice on the Blackcomb side of this resort.

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Notes

• This was probably ~28 miles and ~9800 feet of vertical gain starting at the top of Whistler Mountain to the base of Blackcomb, taking about 12 ½ hours.
• It’s cool how many ways you can slice this thing, with being able to add/subtract ski lines freely and still have a great and unique experience. Some of us were saying how it’d be fun to also go north to south as a corn ski since the aspects will roughly follow the sun as well.