The Last Day of Whistler Mt. and the Telus Festival

It was the end of the road for Whistler Mountain for the 2009-2010 winter season. It was a great day. The bad weather stayed away and the sun was breaking through the clouds that did show up. Whistler still having over a three meter base, I had some of the best spring skiing up there in years. Skied West Bowl, The Cirque, Sun Bowl and other high alpine runs and the snow had a bit of a dust on crust feeling mixed in with some slush. But I didn’t hit one rock.

But my day ended a bit early today. I was asked by Jen Hudak (she won the women’s half pipe competition) to represent her for this car draw. She won 1 of 4 keys to try to with a brand new Camaro. I picked the last number out of the hat to pick a key. I was happy, didn’t have to stress over picking the key i just took the last one. Then they reversed the order (surprise!) and I got to try the key first. Did a little wish dance and kissed the key, put it in the lock, turned it left and right (for good measure), no luck. Went through all the keys…it was the last one (of course, they said they didn’t plan it that way). It was a snowboarder who won an award at the Grenade Games (just a fun 4 days of competition, pretty much no rules, jam format, just fun killing it with your friends). I think he won the best trick of something. He’s from Kelowna (yah Canada for killing it) and I don’t think they won any or little money at that event, so he is pretty stoked right now.

There was a great band that played for the last concert, Arrested Development. They came all the way from Atlanta, Georgia. I never heard of them before. But once they started playing that didn’t matter because they were so good. So
much energy, great sound and amazing vocals. It was mix of hip-hop, soul and freestyle rap. Perfect for me. The whole crowd was into it. The sun was shining and all you saw was people dancing and waving their hands in the air. They got the crowd to join in a few songs, made us feel like we were in the show too. Super cool. I’m totally going to look them up to get some of their music.

It was in all a great day, start to finish. Skiing the last day of season on one of the best mountains in the world in my backyard, trying to win a car in front of a large crowd to hearing a great band under the afternoon sun. Nothing wrong with that.

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