Mt. Washington 2019

Mount Washington, Vancouver Island

Never skied there?  New to the Island or B.C.?  No problem.   

 

We went there with the Victoria Alpine Ski Club March 29 – 31 for only $200.00!  It’s so good to be a member!!!

Serviced by 6 chairs and one Magic Carpet, it has lots of ski-able terrain.  With 57 or 58 marked runs to ski down, you can also bounce through the trees on Schum’s Glades, Fantastic Trees, Park Glades, Whiskey Jack’s Glades, Harry’s Trees, Riptide Glades, Good Time Glades, Gateway Glades, or the Gold Rush Glades on the front side.  Mt. Washington has a chair called the Boomerang Chair which services both the front and back side.  On the back, you may continue your tree skiing in the North or McKay Glades, but likely the double blacks in the North Bowl, or the Sucker Chutes will call out with un-tracked powder in the open.  No black runs on the North side, sorry—only double blacks down to McKay Lake.

For the beginner, Mt. Washington offers the Hawk Express where the entire west side of the lift is basically green.  No worries if you love black runs while using that chair.  All the runs to the right when you get off are Black!!!  A few become Blues at the very bottom.

Looking for blues, head one lift to your right and you are on the Eagle Express or the next one over, the Whiskey Jack Chair.  Black runs and intermediate blues take you all the way down.  No greens here.

The Sunrise chair has no marked greens either, but some of the blues would be green on Blackcomb or Whistler.   All in all, Mt. Washington has lots to offer.

 

We had two days of sunshine, so boiler plate until about 11am; just ask Lee who tried to ski with Tam and Shelley Friday morning.  The trees did not like his helmet and put a good enough dent into it.  He did not ski the rest of the weekend.  Nice enough roommate, as he had to sleep on the Sofa next door to find the position he needed.  Seems the ribs may have been bruised or fractured.  Not much one can do but sleep on one’s back and not tell him any jokes (I know as I did in a few ribs at one of the last summer games and was fool enough to try golfing—not too much fun—hated drinking all that beer). 

After 11:00 am it was great skiing the whole mountain until about 1:30/ 2 pm when the lower runs became spring skiing.  Yet, keeping on the top, or moving out of the sun face back over to the Hawk Express you could ski good snow until the lifts closed at 3:30.  Yes, their hot tub worked just fine!!!

Looking forward to doing it all again next ski season!!!  Ski BC with the PSC or the VASC !   It's just that easy!!!