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Whitewater Ski Resort
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2010-09-08A new video just released from Whitewater will get you salivating for the real stuff just around the corner - check it out and see what's in...replies4views3959
2010-09-13
2010-06-28The forecast looked good for the day so we prepared for our annual last ski tour of the season at an undisclosed location (sorry this private...replies0views2852
2010-06-28
2010-04-09Spring held off this week again and the powder piled up as Whitewater was closed for the week so it was pretty obvious that White Queen would be...replies0views2661
2010-04-09
2010-04-05The skin up from the Silver King chair quickly let us know that the sun had baked south aspects so we decided to ski Acidophilus and get some...replies0views2640
2010-04-05
2010-04-04After a few nice turns in bounds we knew the touring would be great. We decided to stick to the trees and drop into Acidophilus. The snow quality...replies0views2584
2010-04-04
2010-04-04Still snowing at whitewater today and White Queen was looking pretty inviting on the drive up, so we signed out and took the Silver King Lift up...replies0views2277
2010-04-04
2010-04-03With new snow and no sun for the last few days White Queen was looking superb. We hiked to the rigde from the top of Nugget which skips the...replies0views2377
2010-04-03
2010-04-03Just returned from a tour into West Ymir after the catch basin access was opened up by the Whitewater ski Patrol. It was windy and snowing all...replies0views3140
2010-04-03
2010-03-20Spent the morning looking for any remaining stashes of good snow in the Whitewater backcountry and figured 'up high' would be the place to...replies2views4999
2010-03-20
2010-03-14After the massive dump of snow we had I was curious to check out conditions in the White Queen area. Here is what I found: 230cm height...replies1views2983
2010-03-14
2010-02-21Another sunny day and warm temps called us to try and find some soft snow, success was had in Acidophilus. About 12cm of light fluffy snow [2cm...replies0views2498
2010-02-21
2010-02-21Went into five mile today again for a beautiful sunny day. The snow was still awesome six days later - 15cm, dry and soft. Did the bootpack...replies0views2519
2010-02-21
2010-02-20Back in Kutetl after two weeks and under similar conditions, sunny and hot. The snow has held up very well considering it has not snowed since...replies0views2537
2010-02-20
2010-02-14Toured into Five Mile today. Low visibility and moderate winds on the ridge did nothing to spoil the creamy 25cm of new snow. We did three laps....replies0views2545
2010-02-14
2010-02-08Skied into Scob’s Knob yesterday at around 3:00. Super sunny—and felt almost spring-skiing-like immediately after we dropped in off...replies0views3366
2010-02-08
2010-02-08Today was a beautiful sunny day and we hit first chair [almost] in order to get into Ketutl and see if there was anything worth skiing. We gained...replies0views2709
2010-02-08
2010-02-07The sun finally shone today so we headed up to Whitewater and decided to ski White Queen, we were worried about it being skied out or a possible...replies0views2535
2010-02-07
2010-02-07Under sunny skies we toured up to the top of white queen by 10:00 AM and switched to ski mode and then worked our way out to the farthest point...replies0views3128
2010-02-07
2010-02-02We hit a few laps on 5 mile Saturday, January 30th. The up route was up and over Half-dome. We skied N-NE aspects and climbed back...replies1views2645
2010-02-02
2010-01-28Yurts have been recently renovated and are back in action. Skiing has always been good. Recent Blog entries.replies2views3361
2010-01-29
2010-01-16After three weeks of snow and cloud the sun finally came out again – so we took full advantage of the opportunity to get out and ski White...replies1views2858
2010-01-17
2010-01-10Headed up onto to Blaster's Ridge and around to Prospector Bowl this early aft (Saturday) to get away from the hubbub. The uptrack was well...replies0views2865
2010-01-10
2010-01-04Went up Mt Beattie. On the way up we saw a lot of fracture lines and had a lot of whumphing. On top we met a group of KMC people who dug a...replies1views3162
2010-01-04
2010-01-03Went for a quick hike out of Whitewater into Acidophilous yesterday to check things out. As expected there were visible and audible signs of...replies0views2798
2010-01-03
2010-01-03Even with the elevated avi rating due to this weekends new snow we decided to head out to see how the new storm snow was sitting on the weak...replies0views2581
2010-01-03
