The End of Coast Skiing

I'm moving to Mackenzie…

I'm moving to Mackenzie…

Cmon,you can't hate life that bad. Shames and Smithers are getting pppppounded right now.

The scary thing is that truck and SUV sales in the US of A shot through the roof as soon as gas prices started dropping

I know eh? Pure madness. How can people be so short-sighted … locking themselves into guzzlers for 4, 5 or more years on the basis of a blip in fuel prices that may last 6 months, or maybe a year at most?

Cmon,you can't hate life that bad. Shames and Smithers are getting pppppounded right now.

Terrace and Smithers are also on the list.

I've got 10 years or so to plan this move. I'm going to be monitoring long term trends and future predictions closely…

Cmon,you can't hate life that bad. Shames and Smithers are getting pppppounded right now.

I'd move to the Robson valley if skiing was priority #1. maybe less "culture" then Smithers, but that's not always a bad thing. the GF is working in Valemount at the moment, so it might not be that hard of a sell. though it's likely a case of greener grass syndrome. I lived in Lake Louise for three winters and skied 100+days a year in conditions way worse then what whistler has right now, and fucking loved it. If I wanted it I could go get it.

Will this poor snow season effect Whistlers profit this year? Might mean a hike in prices for the bike park!

The cost of a season's pass has been going up each year. The only way they could keep justifying that IMO is to keep creating more trails on more terrain. A connector route to Whistler Creek and more trails there has been proposed (or more accurately, rumored to be proposed).

A buddy who worked for seymour told me that cypress made a deal with whistler to not continue with the bike park in exchange for some olympic events.

Seems like a shitty deal. What long-term benefits did Cypress get out of the Olympics?

lots of infrastructure; new lodge, snowmaking hardware, etc.