Sun Peaks is widely known for its light, dry, ‘easy-to-ski’ powder. Even this being a relatively mild winter, we've been getting frequent medium sized dumps that made our alpine base reach almost 2 meters by the end of February.
On February 26th the snow gods blessed us with an epic snow storm.
It started snowing lightly Friday, early in the morning, and by the time the lifts closed about 10cm of fluffy snow had accumulated on the slopes. Then, in the evening it started dumping really hard and it didn't stop till Saturday at noon!
Saturday was such an epic day! At around 8:30am I was at the bottom of the bubble chair (the Sunburst Express) waiting for the lifts to open. Of course I was not alone, locals and tourists started arriving and everyone had a huge smile on their face. We knew that this was a day not to be missed!
So, I met some friends that know these mountains pretty well and we headed to the top of the Crystal Chairlift.
Visibility was poor at the bowls, but close to the trees it was just sweet! We got fresh tracks on Spillway, Kookamungas glades, Rice Bowl, Pink Flamingos... it was snowing so hard that there were virtually no groomed runs. By the time we got to the top of the chairlifts our tracks were almost covered again!
The storm brought us 35cm of powder in about 30 hours, but in some areas it looked like much more than that.
Thanks to Doug, Elisabeth, Stephanie, Christina and Mike for the sweet runs we shared that weekend, those were definitely some of the best runs of the season!
The Monday following was quite a bluebird day with perfect visibility and lots of fresh snow left on the higher elevations. And with the T-bar closed during the weekdays, a small hike around the West Bowl was well worth it!
Fresh tracks and blue skies, it can't get any better!
Well, after a snowy February everyone seems to be ready for the March storms...
Bring it on!
Thiago,
the Snow Bum
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