The Storm That Saved Whistler's Ski Season
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- Опубліковано 29 лют 2024
- Whistler Blackcomb predicted 6-8cm but almost 100cm nuked down during the last 12 hours. This was as close as I’ve ever been to snorkel skiing this season. ULLR answered our prayers and responded hard with the most ridiculous storm we’ve seen at Whistler Blackcomb this entire season. Not only was it one of the deepest days I've ever skied at Whistler, this snow was champagne light. I was lucky to have left the city early as many Sea to Sky drivers were stranded on the highway due to an array of accidents. The locals were so stoked, that by the time I made it through the highway 99 storm vortex I was extremely far back in the queue. I’ve never seen a storm so gnarly. Winds were nasty and it was amazing that patrol and lift operations were able to open up some terrain and keep chairs spinning for as long as they did. The next few days are going to be even better as the alpine opens up. I think it’s safe to say that our season has been saved! Lastly, please be extremely conservative in the Backcountry this weekend, or consider not leaving the resort at all, weak layers are present and this storm snow needs time to bond. Stay Spicy!
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In the 2003/04 season we had a dumping of 1.4m over night. The mountain had to close early due to people getting buried skiing on the Blue runs. That was an epic day as well! Thank You for a great video and thanks for bringing back great memories once again! I will always consider Whistler "Home". Oh! We were allowed to ride chairs alone back then :)
140cm overnight hahaha that is insane! What an insane memory. Thanks for sharing!
I lived there that year and remember that time as well ! You could not ski blue runs as the snow was too deep. Saw insane things day everyone jumped off everything . Saw a guy that day dropped and went into the snow and disappeared I was on the lift , we skied down and dug him out he was buried and could not move . Good times . 😊
Ski Gods - I pray to you. May these conditions exist mid March!
March 2012 entered the chat ( 30 cm a day average
This snow isn't going anywhere anytime soon!
amen
El nino years the snow comes in March.
Same Im going on the 14th
WHISTLER when its on is the best in the world. Period.
Absolutely!
Just hit back from there and those lift lines absolutely sucked.😊
Jackson hole has entered the chat
Is it good yes, best in the world, pretty far from. Better snow in Japan by a long shot, better mountains and lines in the Alps, longer season in Scandinavia etc. I have been around most places in the world and so far Canada, despite being good and having really n CE peoole, is taking last place. Most of my friends who have been have also been disapointed.
Sure this is nice skiing but its knee deep.
The last 3 days up here have been unbelievable! Definitely picked the best week to travel to Whistler for the first time from South Carolina
Insane timing!!!
Two things I have embraced from watching your channel, number 1 is never shy away from a good boot pack. Learnt that from you and have had some of the best lines of my life as a result. The 2nd is that ferns/ brush are as you said once “ made for skiing” 😅
Thanks man!!!
So glad you're putting those tips to practice and you're getting into more of the good stuff!
This is INSANE, smiling all the way throughout the entire video (while also being the saddest that we would never get this in the pyrenees😭)
hahhaa Pyrenees seems beautiful though. You gotta get your ass over here for a storm week :)
@@riseandalpine oh yes!! Just came back from two weeks in Colorado so can’t really complain, next big trip canada (or japow!!🙏🏼)
Baker yesterday was incredible!!!!!! 1.5 meters of absolute blower!!!!!
I heard you needed avi gear to get on the chairs! EPIC.
@@riseandalpine seriously?
Whistlerin’g hard! G bless this man and this video
Thanks for your amazing content! Can't wait for the alpine to open!
Thanks Andrew, really appreciate the support :). Alpine opened yesterday and we had a blue sky. CRAZY!
Super fast video turnaround! Especially with all the skiing yesterday and today as well. One of the craziest days skiing of my life- this that shit we're here for baby!! So stoked you got some good clips of it :)
Glad you're getting the goods too. Skiing all day, editing all night! Rinse and repeat. Yeehaw!
love this channel ive been in whistler since tuesday leaving march 7 alpine opened up yesterday afternoon cant wait for today
You timed that absolutely perfectly!
That’s bonkers dude!
Glad you got to experience that and share with us 😊
Only time I’ve ever seen it like that was late 90s El Niño years when they had to dig out chairs. Solar Coaster was totally buried.
Shred on brotha!
Simply exceptional. Wish you were out with me on 7th Yesterday... Was another banger!
What a fabulous day, thank you for sharing it. And I'm in awe (and totally jealous) of how in control you are, zooming between trees, with seemingly barely enough room to squeeze by. I'll be there in 3 weeks!
You'll have one hell of a snow base in three weeks time!
Thank you for blessing us with this beautiful footage of this legendary pow day
So stoked I could share it with you!
Bounce Bounce Bounce!!! You are such a good skier my dude!!! ❤
Snow like this makes the skiing breezy!
Glad you got some of the freshy!! Should be a crazy weekend!!!
Going to be the busiest weekend known to mankind at Whistler
I feel you. Every deep pow day is the best day of my life :)
So true. Every day feels like the deepest. That's the beauty of skiing!
We are so blessed ,blessings , Bless up! 🙏4❄
So blessed!
Thanks for sharing - looks epic! Headed your way on Tuesday for a week - hopefully see you on the mountain. Cheers!
Great timing - have fun!
That's some SIC POW'! When Whistler is good, it is one of the best!
Nowhere I'd rather be when the snow is falling
Can’t wait to see the Peak run !! Awesome 😎
Peak opened yesterday!
Great to see whistler getting recovered with snow!! It’s more like it now!
It's making a big time comeback
My friends and I were lucky enough to have our trip planned from the 25th to the 2nd and got to ski this sick powder day! I was hoping to get lucky and catch sight of you once on Wednesday. Big fan of the channel, cheers from Alabama!
What awesome timing. Glad you got in on the powder madness!
everyday in the Cascade Mtns have been this way this week. Great pick me up for finishing out the last of the year! Yew!
Sick!!!!
Awesome, heading up there for a week this Sunday with my Bentchetler’s!!
A good day to be on the Beefy B's
Whistler is amazing right now! 😍
Best skiing of the year!
Sweet!
Bronx crew 10 deep will be there this Monday to Friday! Hope to see you there!!
I love the editing of your video. It's so spot on! As a video editor myself, no one really notices how much detail goes into these videos. They can take so long sometimes. I notice this must've taken you HOURS to do. Keep it up.
P.S. Are you going to go back to Sunshine this year. They just got almost 80 cm this week.
Keep up the good work and keep on powderin'
Thanks! Each video takes me an easy 8 hours of reframing 360 footage, downloading and editing. Lot's of time and love goes into each one even though it feels raw. I'll for sure be swinging through sunshine sometime in the next few weeks
🤣 OMG, dude! I’ve gotta come up with some new superlatives! Every time I say you’ve outdone yourself you out do yourself again!
And i say that knowing I’ve got another vid to catch up on! 😂
James, you’re a trip, bro! You’re a superior skier, but not cocky at all.
I’m sure I’ll leave another comment on the next vid which I’m gonna watch now. Hard to keep up with all the cool footage you produce. 🤙
Oh, my!!!!!!!!! Never, ever have I seen the snow so deep (not all those years I scoured the mountains for a day like yours!!!) And the way you whooshed thru' such narrow trees (and nearly did the split)!!! Wow, there is no word for snow like this (tho' I know some idiot is going to tell you it was lighter in Utah!! LOLOL!!) See you tomorrow. Lynn (drooling in NYC)
One in a million kind of day. Laughing hard at your comment about the people who will tell me it was deeper and lighter somewhere else hahaha
Crazy off-the-charts Pow Panic. 🌨❄📈
Mad-Pow Disease!
EPIC!
Amazing!!
Here in Tahoe, I believe we are quickly approaching the 8-9 foot mark since Friday morning 😅
Just insane.. I don’t know where to put it anymore
INSANE.... Digging out the driveway must be one hell of a job right now.
THAT IS AMAZING!
So fun!
Wow James, that was amazing. I thought the snow skirt in your jacket was to stop the snow when you fall over. Who knew you needed it for skiing upright 😂 Lots of great footage again 👊 Loved this one🇬🇧
Not even a snow skirt could save me! Pow entered every part of the body
@@riseandalpine But you don’t mind if you get a day skiing like that. Once in a blue moon. It happens so rarely for people who book a holiday week, but you don’t forget them.
Looks SICK dude. Flying out there today. I'm sure most of this will be tracked out by the time we're skiing but I'm happy the storm came just for the sake of overall mountain conditions
The mountain is in Mint condition and the coverage isn't going anywhere anytime soon :)
nice editing man! I had major FOMO on the 28th but the Spankys rope drop on the 29th made up for it. What a storm
Glad you got the Spanky's rope drop! The 29th was epic!
“Snorkel pow”! You delivered my friend oh my god. Thank you.
I asked for up to the nips and you went swimming. I gotta get me some liquid courage 😂😂
You knew things were going nipple deep. Thanks for calling it!
So SICK!🔥
Best day ever!
Lets go man! Congrats on scoring the absolute goods. Im trying to see if I can hit this Massive Tahoe storm on Monday-Tues!!!
I heard about that storm. You'll have to let me know how it goes!
Hit Blackomb one day years ago and it was a meter in two days. Absolute heaven. The next day warm weather came in and it was back to wet coast cement
Feels so good when you time the storm right!
So glad the snow gods answered our prayers 😆
Perfect timing for our arrival in 2 days!! Can't wait.
Couldn't have timed that better!
I got first up peak chair on the 29th of feb had one of the best runs down west cirque into Christmas trees/sneaky Pete’s
That is the most epic line combo on either side!
I am so jealous, I was telling my wife "let's book off friday to go skiing" and she kept saying "I'd rather do tuesday next week". I just hope the snow keeps coming. Awesome video though, loved the music choices as well.
Tuesday will be great too, but Yesterday and today were all-time! This weekend is going to be a gong show LOL
You are the GOAT
Thanks Max!
I'll.never forget back in 2012 when it snowed 7 feet in 7 days. It was absolutely bananas
7 Feet in 7 days... good lord. The absolute dream!
Last three days have been nuts: As deep as Wednesday and Thursday have been, I actually think that the overall best skiing has been today (Friday).
Thursday was "pick an alpine chair and pitch a tent" day. Hit some morning laps, and then find a chair to wait to open. We picked Harmony and waited a LONG time for it to finally open around 1pm. But we were also about chair 30 going up and this meant a pretty much untracked run down Harmony bowl followed by an mostly untracked run down Sun bowl. Blackcomb campers won though with Glacier and 7th opening up an hour earlier around noon.
Friday AM - it dumped another 20-30cm Thursday eve to Friday morning. I think the snowpack was the most mature today. For sure the fresh snow was deepest on Wed and Thurs, but Friday, it just seemed to be really really composed. No ice underneath, nothing. just 1-2 feet of pow with a soft squishy base underneath. Symphony finally opened just past Noon on Friday.
Patrollers did an excellent job: WB is a huge area with lots of high alpine bowls. It must have been a monumental task to make this safe after a meter of snow in 24 hours. Avy risk was incredibly high with a super unstable snow pack. Everyone boot packing to Flute will need to be paying attention and properly equipped. Tree wells lower down will require respect.
Awesome week - Thursday and Friday were BUSY: Saturday is going to be insane on the mountain.
But - this is when Whistler shines: massive snow with phenomenal terrain. There is literally something for every type of skier on the mountain right now!
Ps - WB "mountain conditions forecast" on the official site is crap.
The Snow-forecast.com site is usually very accurate. They totally called it the past 72 hours...
I totally agree with all of this mine. My favourite time to ski is the day after the big snowfall when the mountain settles and the snow base is soft. You can get speed, ski everything and the Alpine opens early. What an amazing week. This weekend was also awesome and surprisingly quiet all things considered.
man is living the dream 🤩
Life is so good!
wow , you are one lucky guy!!
So glad I was in town for this one!
WOW WOW WOW WOW. Or should i say, POW POW POW POW.
POW POW POW POW!!!
Need to take a trip out west, looks phenomenal
Get out here my man!
The Gods are looking out for us James boy 😁😁😁😁
Things are turning around nicely! I LOVE WINTER!
insane 😂
Brain melting pow eh!
So jealous of those conditions, it’s been a pretty tough winter everywhere after last season shattered records. Ottawa’s only had two “powder” days this year, and I was able to get two decently deep days at Jay in Vermont, but NOTHING compares to that BC champagne pow, I’m living on the wrong coast lol 😅
You just gotta call it and move west. Jay is fun, but not this fun :)
Looks sick! Much better than the rain I am going to ski in tomorrow in the east coast. But I’m heading out to Whistler March 20th so it’s alright.
Sick! I feel like all of march is going to be awesome!
@@riseandalpine Good conditions or not it’s gonna be a blast for sure!
I was there! Running laps on 7th Heaven when it opened on Thursday. Remarkable
so insanely good!
Yep that's what I remember from my trip to whistler massive queues . Great place just too many people for me
Best terrain, and best place Period when it snows, but if you hate lines and people I totally agree it is the worst place to be. Lots of sick interior hills with less lines and awesome terrain
Stuck 6 hours in the sh*t show that was function junction dead lock on the highway wednesday. Left NVancouver at 6 am and still wasnt good enough. Glad someone got some of the goods because by the time they got us through all that madness, everything was chopped up and only excelerator was open on blackcomb. Went down as one of my worst days ever at whistler. Cypress however provided the best day of the season yesterday to make up for it.
Damn dude. Bummer you got stuck in that traffic. My mom did as well. Stoked cypress made up for it. Great to see the North Shore getting nuked and back in shape for skiing!
Made me happy to see that you got so much good pow up there! 100% good to see the snow on the NS, back at cypress again today for a fresh 40 cm@@riseandalpine
You lucky lucky lucky bastard!
Ohhhhh yaaaaah!
Snow it goes.
Yeeehawww
That is so insaneeeee
The reason I keep a mustache is for days like this hahaha
Yeeeeaaaaa boiiii!!! The fresh snowfall is amazing!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! :)
Just what we needed!
Let’s go.
Great video and great skiing. It looks as though the snow is a bit wet and heavy. Glad you've finally received a good quantity of fresh snow. May I ask what width under foot are your Nordicas ?
Snow was actually quite dry. Just so much of it it really slowed me down, and I haven't waxed in 20 ski days LOL. 114 UNleashed 191 length
It was a great amount of snow and some awesome runs what a great week I picked
You picked the best week ever!
Love to see you ski-tracks map.
Can't reveal my sneaky slots ;)
Looks dope was there on thursday when the alpine opened aswell. Where are the trees that you are skiing??
Thursday was sick!
Do you guys ever get these big storms like last week of March. That’s when I’m going, I’ll be there all week, so excited!
March Madness - expect snow all month dude!
Really enjoyed Crusty the Clowns season Vlogs
If I get the same male pattern baldness as my dad I'm going to look even CRUSTIER next season!
We got 59 inches at Mt. Baker in one storm. That's basically 5 feet in one storm. (150cm) It was amazing!!!
Holy mother mary... That's a boatload of snow hahaha
Wowww really wishing i took my trip 2 weeks later! This is insane
It came out of no where hahhaa
I did some backcountry heli-skiing last year for the first time at Panorama and had some deep, untouched powder (maybe not quite this deep) with some runs through the trees like this. I don't understand how guys can just point their skis down the hill and go through the trees. Even in the powder you just get going fast and I was just afraid of losing control and hitting a tree or just losing control of my speed. But I'm an older skier. These young guys aren't afraid of anything. They just ride through the trees like nothing can go wrong. One slight catching of a ski and they are face first into a tree and it's all over but they don't seem to care.
It's all just practice and repetition! To be honest I'm more afraid of catching an edge on a groomer and hitting a tree on the side of it, higher speed, even worse result. Usually in the trees I'm moving much slower than other spots. My worst wipeout 2 seasons ago involved me getting wrapped around a tree, it hurt but luckily I was alright minus bruised shins and an almost broken ski boot. Love tree skiing so much it's worth the risk to me.
that really must be one of the craziest powder days I've seen.
So nutty!
5:32 guy gets banished to the shadow realm by Frostillicus.
No way hahaha - I didn't even see that while editing.
The most fun you can have with your clothes on!🙌
hahaha so true!
2024 blizzard stories will be told in my world of mountain life !
Everyone is going to have a great story!
Awesome James, but could you tell us in a future video about how you use your ski pole as a selfie stick? I know you've already done an X3 video, but I think you only used the actual Insta360 selfie stick in that video. I'm wondering how, if you use a ski pole, you avoid getting the basket in the shot! I see a GoPro-type mount on the end of one of your ski poles, but I assumed that was just for the GoPro during skinning sessions.
I actually only use the X3 on the stick for skiing shots. I leave my ski pole at the top of the lift.
@@riseandalpineThat's brilliant! Something I can try if I'm lapping a chair in the future. Thanks man!
What's the name of that weather website that you're using at the beginning of this vid? LOVE your content BTW.
snowforecast.com
What a PoW⛷️🎥 well dodged on that tree or we would have had Flat & Alpine forever
Or Decapitated Alpine
Your are amazing ⛷️🌬️🌬️🌬️🌬️🌬️
Thanks!
got the 3rd chair up harmony today... some of the deepest snow ive ever skied in my life
Unreal!
The storm that saved the west coast of N. America.....
Yeeeewwwwwww!!!!!
Every mountain is absolutely going off right now!
lets goo!!
Soooo Good!
I assume you have turned your ski pole into an invisible selfie stick. (That's why you are holding only one pole when you ski.) Can you please tell me how you attached the Insta360 X3 to your ski pole, as shown at the 2:52 mark? Happy skiing!
I use this ski pole ⛷️ Deorum Apollo Freeride Ski Poles
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It has an attachment. However, it doesn't work well for the 360 camera and gets in the frame. I just leave my ski pole at the top of the lift when I want to use the invisible selfie stick.
I'm having so much FOMO watching you ski. This year we did not do our annual pilgrimage to BC. This is absolutely insane. Those lower mountain lines look sick with all these POW.
There wasn't much snow this year but this last month was crazy
👍👍👍 flying in Sun 3/3
Enjoy!
The best days is the days you can't see the skis for the entire day!
100% Still thinking about this day!
@@riseandalpine Completely understand that. Its a one in a life time events!
Do you ski other resorts? Or just Whistler Blackcomb?
I ski lots of other resorts. Check out the rest of my channel!
About to me in Mammoth on Sunday...
Enjoy!
If I had this day and filmed it all, I’d still have nothing on the cutting room floor.
What weather app are you using???
I usually use snow forecast.com and whistler peak
Don't forget your snorkel!
I've never been more hydrated
I skied chest deep pow out of the roundhouse 1988
Before I was born! I bet it didn't get skied out so quickly back then!
@@riseandalpine 1987 was first year of high speed lifts..so yah it did get tracked pretty fast then too, but, my chest deep experience was at 4:30 pm as I was just getting off work at the top restaurant and it had been a blizzard all day...we were supposed to download after work but No Way was I gonna pass up chest deep untracked!!!
James take me please. I still haven't been the the mountains this year ):
We need to get you up to the hill!
Me a southern Ontario skier like 😀
Praying for you to get some snow!
Epic wish I was there it's 35°C so95-98F in Perth ATM 😅 good for the beach brutal otherwise
PS we😢
A few places were 50+C for a week 😊
50+C a day for a week is crazy!
5:30 Rest in peace 🙏
LOL
dude this is fking sick
So fun!