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TVRNTVPOOP
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Anyone been to louise lately? How's the park? How's the snow? Who's gonna be there next week?
Dec 24 2015 8:33PM
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Drail
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NO idea about the park, but I'd assume it's not close to a full build yet cause you know, it's still December. Snow wise though, I think it's good? Check the Canadian Rockies thread on TGR. Doesn't talk much about inbounds but it's got good insight for current conditions for the region. I can tell you that everywhere in southern BC is having all time conditions so I can only assume that the east side of the divide is doing just as fantastic.
Dec 25 2015 1:14AM
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PeppermillReno
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Dunno I'll be there at some point later in the winter I might go back to Whistler first though.

Excellent snow in BC Whistler had plenty as of a couple days ago and was 100% open.


If snow conditions were completely equal what is the better mountain or more difficult? Mutliple people told me different things and that Lake Louise/Sunshine were more difficult and some said it was easier and tamer.
Dec 25 2015 2:14AM
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Drail
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PeppermillRenoDunno I'll be there at some point later in the winter I might go back to Whistler first though.

Excellent snow in BC Whistler had plenty as of a couple days ago and was 100% open.


If snow conditions were completely equal what is the better mountain or more difficult? Mutliple people told me different things and that Lake Louise/Sunshine were more difficult and some said it was easier and tamer.


Tough to say. I'd say whistler is the better mountain because the the coastal snow just sticks to even the steepest of slopes. You'd be hard pressed to find good pillow zones in the Rockies. The tree skiing at Whistler is really good too.

There is some really good steep stuff at lake Louise and sunshine, but it's lacking a large amount of good tree skiing. If conditions are equally good, you can't go wrong with any of them really. I've always found that Lake Louise is quite easy to find the good terrain without searching too hard and without a local to chase around.
Dec 25 2015 2:00PM
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ShredMasterPlus
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Louise seems to be off to a good start, no pass this year but they have got almost everything open, excluding ER6 and ER5 and Elevator shaft pretty sure everythings open, hasn't really been much new snow but Louise usually skis pretty well even without snow, cold weather lately will mean surface faceting which when you figure out where the wind is loading you can probably find some nice turns getting refreshed daily. No idea how the parks looking but they usually dedicate their snowmaking to that after world cups done so its probably getting pretty close to being radtastic. Have fun
Dec 25 2015 3:20PM
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addie.
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decent amount of snow. cold as FUCK. that is all.
Dec 25 2015 7:21PM
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skiskate
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Mid November the snow was incredible when i rode it. I'd assume they're still doing pretty damn good.
Dec 25 2015 7:31PM
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