On Monday, I skied with the big camera. With smaller crowds and a clear day, it seemed the logical choice.
I awoke before dawn and noticed the holiday lights on our condo playing on the icicles outside our windows.
Here’s the view out our condo windows once the sun started to come up. We were near the lower end of the village walk, by the Whistler Olympic Plaza skating rink. I belive this is where they held some of the medal ceremonies at the 2010 Winter Olympics. You can see that we have a little fog / undercast on an otherwise clear day.
Here’s that undercast from the other side. The building is the top of the Glacier Express lift on Blackcomb mountain, as seen from near the Horstman hut and the Blackcomb summit.
We had lunch at the Horstman hut, and here’s the view in the other direction, from our table on the deck. You can see some ski slopes on Whistler in the foreground, with the aptly named Black Tusk mountain behind.
After lunch Kat, Michael, and I skied Blackcomb Glacier, a 6-mile run that starts with an enormous bowl. That’s Michael to me left in this fisheye shot, and the two specks near the right side of the frame are Kat and an unidentified skier. The boulders jutting in a line into the center of the shot are car-sized.
We all stopped for a photo op at the bottom of the bowl section. Only another 5 miles to the lift!
Skiing the glacier was fun. But it wore us out (only the second day, after all — gotta save some for later), and we decided to take the Peak to Peak Gondola over to Whistler for beer.
