Powderhound Session 2007.3

The original plan for todays powderhound session was to head up to Whistler. The alarm went of at 6:30, the new dawn faded and I headed downstairs to check out the conditions ... ouch .. high of -5 low of -9. This clearly required debating with Oz. We decided to go local. So off to Cypress Mountain we went.

With all the cold weather, I was expecting it to be chilly but to our suprise the sun was shining hard, the powder was descent but the place was c-r-o-w-d-e-d. One Jedi Mind trick later we aquired excellent parking.

Preperations over, we headed off to carve some warm-ups on our favourite run. It was quite the log-jam so we headed off to find some desolation. We discovered a new fave run - great terrain, epic views.

The best was yet to come. The views were truly, truly epic - from sweeping views of Mount Baker and the Cascades (USA), the Sunshine Coast/ Vancouver Island (CAN) , the Olympic Mountains (USA) to the BIGGEST TREAT of all MMMMMMMMOUNT RAINIER. Mount Freaking Rainier from Cypress Mountain ... that's a distance of 190 MILES!!!!!! Unbelievable. That made my day. Wow.