Near the top of the mountain the chair
lifts go by as the day grows late.
Part 3
Sixty-nine loonies($56U.S.) later and a 20 min drive and I was riding the mountain.
Nine lifts carry you to 84 trails that definitely keep you busy throughout the day. What was neat was being able to park and then immediately start snowboarding from the lot down to the first lift. I hadn't been up in a year or so but like riding a bike you can go years(and I have) without riding and it comes right back.
Then there was a minor mishap. You may have seen the photo of the poor man in Colorado who ended up upside down and pants down hanging from a ski lift. Well, I almost repeated his amazing feat. I was trying to get up to the very cramped and very low triple chair on the upper mountain and had a bit of difficulty. I wasn't pay enough attention to how fast the chair was coming up and along it came and scooped me up partially and threw me off five feet later. Now luckily nothing caught and I didn't get hurt, just a little embarrassed was I.
The snow was groomed and nasty. Icy in parts and apparently there hadn't been any snow fall in a couple weeks. The two terrain parks were a fun addition to the park. I spent a little time on one but mainly stuck to the runs. I was feeling very confident by the end of the day especially since I didn't eat it hard on any of the rides down.
Trying a jump out
The view from the top of Marmot Basin.
A view from the top.
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