Skiing knee-deep!

One person who's lived in Whistler for 8 years said yesterday ended up being "one of his best three days".  Whee!   We ended up having 14 inches of new snow, which was on top of 55 inches of snow over the last week. The first 55 inches covered up the old packed and icy snow and filled stuff in, and the 14 inches of new snow was fluffy, and depending on how the wind blew it, was thigh-high in a lot of places!

We hit the lift line a half hour before it opened and there was already a pretty good line of people waiting to get the "freshies".  On our ride up we could see those first-in-line people skiing down and getting "stuck" on the medium blue run under the lift - the snow was so deep that plowing through it slowed everything down so much that the slope wasn't steep enough. We headed straight to a steeper black run and it was awesome! And the best part - since it was mid-week, there weren't too many people so we got 5-6 nice runs before all of the new powder was skied out, and a few good ones after that too.

I (Jodi) don't have a lot of experience with deep powder and could definitely use a few more days to "practice".... can we have, say 12 more days like this before we have to leave? please?