Sun Peaks - Snowboarding xmas eve!

This morning we woke up, had a look out the window and it was snowing quite heavily! Not windy at all and temps had warmed right up to -16 degrees.

We unpacked all our snow gear, got the boards and headed out.

Neri had a quick look at the trail map but we really didn't know what to expect as we arrived at night and could not really see the mountain.

We got on the first lift we could find and made our way to the top... it was so exciting to see that below there was still a lot of untracked powder and not many people around. They had reported 3cm overnight, but this was very modest... on top of the big dump they had two days ago there was some very deep sections in amongst the trees and to the sides of the groomers.

We had a few runs, and quickly realised how unfit we were... we did one run which seemed like it went on for ever. Amazing groomer with an amazingly light and dry layer of powder snow on top. By the bottom we couldn't feel our faces or our legs but we had the biggest smiles!

We've seen the "best snow on the planet" in Utah, and also riden in Niseko but this stuff was just as light and dry (although nowhere near as deep yet). We were watching the perfect snowflakes build up on our jackets as we rode up the lifts, they were so light they were just stacking up like cotton wool.

Headed in for lunch early at around 11:30 and had a couple of "B52s" which is some kind of coffee with baileys and stuff in it... whatever it was it tasted really good and got us pumped to get back out there.

The afternoon was even better than the morning as we did some seriously leg burning runs... one in particular on Mt Morrissey i collapsed at the bottom after so many deep turns and could hardly breath as my bandana on my face froze solid from all the snow hitting it.

There were a few moments of getting stuck in flat spots but other than that we are both really impressed with the mountain.
It is not huge in terms of size, and it is not the steepest / most challenging but it is definitely fun and best of all there are no crowds at all!

Highlight for neri was seeing some deer eating in the snow right under the chairlift... for those of you who know neri and how she reacts to seeing animals in the wild... she was giggling for a good few minutes.

A few pics attached (neri is in dark jacket and i'm in white jacket)... still snowing outside so hopefully we get some more fresh pow to ride tomorrow.

Special note to Tim from heresy snowbarding - This snowboard is amazing in these conditions... loving it. Thanks again.

Hope you are all having happy holidays! We are ;)

-Jase