Jan132009

Powder Mountain Catskiing Whistler BC Dec 29, 2008 thru Jan 03, 2009

Published by jim under adventures | adventures | snow sports | snow sports

Doing the Catskiing thing in Whistler, actually Powder Mountain, is the second half of the two week loop that starts and ends in Vancouver BC. The first week is in Blue River (see Heliskiing Wiegele blog posted January 12, 2009). Phil Wigglesworth and I arrived in Whistler the night of December 29, 2008 from Blue River. We stayed the entire trip in the home of Gord and Birgit Calder. I admire their bravery. Shan decided to join us on the 30th. Shan had been skiing in Colorado and thought a few days of Catskiing would be fun. We took over the Calder household. Mia and Sidney were totally displaced, but seemed to cope well. The Calder family is absolutely incredible and we all felt blessed to be able to stay with this great family. Gord is the genereal manager of Powder Mountain and Birgit runs the office out of their home.

 

          

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Jan122009

Mike Wiegele Heliskiing, Blue River BC December 20 to 28, 2008

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I might note at the outset that Phil Wigglesworth and I have made this loop on many occasions. I posted about the loop in May 2008 if you would like more detail on that. It involves a week or so in Blue River Heliskiing at Mike Wiegele Heliskiing followed by a week of Catskiing at Powder Mountain Catskiing near Whistler BC. After two weeks of skiing and boarding I am pretty well ready to head home. This blog concerns the details of our trip.                                                                                                    

                       

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Apr012008

Jimmy's Loop

the loop

have it both ways

"Jimmy’s loop" is a week at Powder Mountain Catskiing plus a week at Mike Wiegele Heliskiing. It's mine because I've done it enough to make it so. Here's a detailed description of the loop. I find it to be about as much as you can have with your clothes on.

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