Tremblant Trip Wrap-Up

Despite Tremblant’s reputation for being terribly windy and cold, we enjoyed four awesome days of skiing in the sunshine under blue skies. Click on the image below to view a selection of the hundreds of photos we took during our reading week trip to Quebec.

 
[ The pedestrian village at night. Photo: Carlee Armstrong ]
 

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Whiteface Trip Gallery

The 2007 Eastern ski season was sure looking like a write-off until mid-January, but a few weeks of snow and snowmaking, plus some beautifully sunny weather made for an awesome trip to Lake Placid, NY. Click on the image below to visit our full gallery from the full gallery trip.

 
[ Above the clouds near Whiteface’s summit. Photo: Mike Mitchell ]
 

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No Winter Love For London

Say what you want about the legitimacy of global warming, but green Januaries are becoming a very disturbing trend for the city of London — a city situated within the Lake Huron snowbelt and which is usually covered by this point of the year. With rain on both Christmas and New Years Eve, it’s hardly surprising to hear that London “enjoyed” its warmest December on record. As such, Boler Mountain has yet to open, and likely won’t for a number of weeks (if at all).

The club truly dodged a bullet by cancelling our previously scheduled trip to Blue Mountain, which was set to begin 12 days from now. “Ontario’s Premier Ski Resort” has only a loathsome 1 run open during a traditional peak period in their season, and you know they’re only maintaining that 1 run in order to claim that they’re actually open. It’s a sad thing indeed.

Thankfully both Whiteface (27 runs open) and Mont-Tremblant (52 runs open) are faring much better than their Ontario counterparts, and still have many weeks to improve before our arrival.

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November Social

The UWO Ski Club will be hosting a casual club social this next Thursday, November 30th. Due to almost everyone being buried with assignments and exam preparations, we’ve decided to go with something a little more relaxing than the usual, and something that offers some time flexibility for those interested in participating… that’s right, the good old dinner and a movie.

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Heading West This Winter?

If so you may want to take a look into doing some backcountry skiing with Big Red Cats. Operated by Western alumni Paula Gaul, Big Red Cats provides professionally guided snow cat powder skiing (or boarding) in the region surrounding Red Mountain, which itself is near the city of Rossland, BC.

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