Hi guys,

So Whistler mountain opened a day early (Wednesday 26th November) which is really cool! So we got to get a jump start on learning how to Snowboard. We decided to get up early and try and get up the mountain as soon as possible. The lifts opened at 8.30AM, we aimed to get there at that time so we could get ahead of the queuing. Sadly, everyone had that idea so the queue was ginormous. Surprisingly though the queue was flowing quite qickly, so it only took us 30mins to get to the gondola. Which were then crammed into. The view was amazing. The sky was clear so we could see everything. I did take some pictures, but sadly we had only brought my crappy camera, so they didn’t turn out so great. I will take some more though and post them when I can. The gondala ride from the Village to the Roundhouse (about 3/4 the way up the mountain) takes around 20mins.

Getting to the top of the gondola, I saw what fun lay ahead of me for the rest of the season and I was overjoyed! The feeling of walking onto the pistes on the first day of the season was great. We spent a good 15mins getting ready to go. It was the first time 3 of us had ever been on a snowboard and putting on the bindings and getting up was bit tricky. My first 30mins on my snowboard where some of the most fustrating of my life! I could not control anything. I would get up and hen fall over again. Or I would get up slide down the mountain, then fall over! So I decided that the best way for me to learn was the throw myself down the mountain and learn by making mistakes. And it worked. It took us ±3 hours to get down the first slope, but by that time I was comfortable on my board and only falling over when I did something stupid.

I was happy that by the end of the day I was actually getting turns in. They weren’t pretty or very well controlled, but they were turns

I’m attaching some youtube videos. They aren’t great, but they’ll have to do. Enjoy

First day queue

View from the Roundhouse

Lunch at the Roundhouse