Thursday, 29 January 2009
Big White
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Staying in Winfield for the next couple of weeks puts us about 15 minutes closer to each of the ski resorts so we decided to give Big White a try this week and went up last Friday and yesterday (Wednesday).
We didn't think we could like it better than Silver Star but it was really good - in fact the 2 resorts make a killer combination - Silver Star is very quaint and quieter, with runs in amongst the trees and nestled in valleys...Big White is just that...bigger and whiter! Although you are still in the treeline the resort is higher so tree cover at the peaks is much sparser and you have big open runs with lots of powder in between. Big long runs run down off speedy traverses and there are 'warming huts' at the bottom of all the main lifts serving hot cinnamon buns ...must take a photo of these things as they are seriously huge!
On the subject of photos, none yet of BW as the first day we forgot the camera and day 2 it was a might cloudy and we have decided to only post pictures of ski resorts in bright sunshine for maximum smug factor!
Apres ski Big White looks a bit on the European side, with the boatloads of Aussies taking the traditional place of the Dutch in the getting the party started stakes..unfortunately we missed Australia Day on the mountain on Tuesday as Mr Reed was taking an exam for the sheriffs job, but there was cricket, girls in thongs (whoa, boys...thongs=sandals, Mr Reed v. disappointed too) and lots of beer drinking...bliss!
Actually both resorts could do with some snow as we are skiing on hard packed piste but we would like to get back to some powder (yes I know, fussy fussy - I never thought I would be asking for more snow on a 1.50m base!). There was some on Tuesday to freshen things up but it was more like a moist towellette than a proper bath.
We are going to try snow dances in the back garden tomorrow!
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