First Snowboarding Day of 2010

It was drizzling in town as forecast, so we headed up to Seventh Heaven on Blackcomb to stay above the freezing level.  Snow was soft in places, but not “powder”.  Sticky and slow.  There was a fairly good windchill up top, with a serious headwind heading down the first pitch that combined with the sticky snow to prevent forward motion.  Most areas were pretty ridden out, but there were a few stashes here and there.  We rode down throught the terrain garden on our last run down, then caught the lift back up to the top and rode PTP over to Whistler then downloaded on the gondola – no point in burning out our legs and wasting time on krappy conditions on the rideout!  Are we “snow snobs”?  Supposedly there’s more rain overnight and tomorrow with the same 1800 meter freezing level, possibly some high winds, maybe subsiding tomorrow.  Whee.  Doesn’t look good for tomorrow…  To sprinkle powdered sugar on our already dubious day, when we went by Sushi-ya for dinner, the space was dark, and there was what looked like a “this space available” sign in the window.  Fabio went upstairs and there was no “we’ve moved to…” sign on the door.  Guess our favorite sushi place in Whistler is no more.  Boo.  Sachi Sushi was our fall-back.  Sushi was good except for maybe the BBQ smoked salmon roll, which was a little on the dry side.  The beef tataki was ma-ma.  Chocolate ice cream at Cows made everything all better.

My legs hurt already and I’m tired.  Good night.

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