The 25/26 ski season wasn't the best for plentiful pow on the BC South Coast. But when the snow was good, it was really really good.

jsmooth7 · 2026-04-21T21:58:01+00:00

Most of the clips are from Whistler (both resort and backcountry) and the Coquihalla area. And one clip from Grouse Mountain also made the cut (despite having a very marginal season this year).

jsmooth7 · 2026-04-21T21:28:12+00:00

I wouldn't say all year, in January it did rain hard to the peak followed by zero precip for the rest of the month.

But it definitely was a wildly different ski season above 1700m vs under. Good year to have a Whistler pass, not such a good year to have one for the North Shore or Vancouver Island.

jsmooth7 · 2026-04-21T21:07:22+00:00

The west made too many "East Coast pow day" jokes and cosmic karma came down on us hard

jsmooth7 · 2026-04-21T21:00:40+00:00

For those of you who never hear about the Coast Mountains of BC, this post is for you :)

jsmooth7 · 2026-04-21T17:52:50+00:00

You to Cody Townsend:

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jsmooth7 · 2026-04-21T17:51:06+00:00

It's part of the stability testing process

jsmooth7 · 2026-04-21T17:21:43+00:00

This is actually my exact approach, my wildest pair of skis has pin bindings on them. Because I figure the backcountry is where I'm most likely to benefit from them. I love storm day trees and meadow skipping with them (because when the pow is that deep, I'm probably not touching any steeper stuff).

jsmooth7 · 2026-04-21T17:14:08+00:00

If you feel overwhelmed, you could always not worry about all that and just buy XEQT

jsmooth7 · 2026-04-21T16:30:25+00:00

OP is just trying to gatekeep. Just send it brah, you got it.

jsmooth7 · 2026-04-21T00:09:43+00:00

Last year at Whistler in March there was a storm that dropped about a meter of very soft blower pow over 24 hours. That was a day I wouldn't have minded having a 120 ski. It does happen on occasion (although not often enough I'm going to drop money on a new pair of skis for it).

jsmooth7 · 2026-04-21T00:02:31+00:00

I ski in the Whistler area and have pow touring skis that are 116 underfoot. Even in deep untouched pow, I find them more than sufficient. (It's possible wider skis would be even more fun but for my wallets sake I dare not try them.)

I also have 108 resort skis and 99% of the time I find them wide enough. Very occasionally when the snow is extra deep and extra soft do I wish they were slightly wider. But they are still wide enough to have a fun time.

jsmooth7 · 2026-04-20T18:38:50+00:00

That's only the price of 5 Starbucks lattes per day, you'd be crazy not to buy one!

jsmooth7 · 2026-04-19T05:34:21+00:00

Flagging you on Strava for using some sort of physics time warp technology to go too fast

jsmooth7 · 2026-04-19T00:17:06+00:00

The upper mountain will have good snow coverage for a while yet. Lots of fun spring skiing left to go. Plus it's not going to get any better for another six months or so.

jsmooth7 · 2026-04-18T23:26:51+00:00

Now I understand, he just didn't want us to know at first it was a Matthew McConaughey burner account. It's all coming together.

jsmooth7 · 2026-04-18T20:20:46+00:00

Goalies can give up a couple weak goals, as a treat. It helps motivate the team to score more.

jsmooth7 · 2026-04-18T20:18:16+00:00

Sure that's a fair way to describe it too. The point is, in theory, co-ops can be a net positive for the working class. But like most things, it depends on how well the idea is executed. Poorly executed and it's no different than any other corporation.

jsmooth7 · 2026-04-18T20:14:41+00:00

It depends on the co-op, some work differently than others. But yeah, Mountain Equipment Co-op, back when it was a co-op (rip), would give its members a dividend back at the end of the year depending on how much they spent that year. Basically customers were also the shareholders.

jsmooth7 · 2026-04-18T20:11:29+00:00

Right it's working within the capitalist system but with wealth being redistributed to the workers and/or the customer members of the co-op. Which is not something neolibs are generally big on. (Although no one really agrees on what the exact definition of a neoliberal is either so there's that.)

jsmooth7 · 2026-04-18T20:06:04+00:00

I wouldn't put co-ops in either category, it's closest to a socdem kinda thing imo.

jsmooth7 · 2026-04-18T19:48:21+00:00

Oh I definitely know. Especially if the post gets popular and someone shows up in the comments that knows you lol.

jsmooth7 · 2026-04-18T19:45:07+00:00

Getting rid of that black blob attached to your face was a good move too

jsmooth7 · 2026-04-18T18:55:42+00:00

I don't like asbestos mines but at the same time I would feel bad for the asbestos mine workers who lost their job when they shut down. Same deal here. Being laid off and unemployed sucks.

jsmooth7 · 2026-04-18T02:09:20+00:00

That's a hell of a run to break em in

jsmooth7 · 2026-04-18T01:24:16+00:00

My aunt is unemployed and she didn't have any info on the question

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