It was a typical British summer’s day here today in Whistler – rain, wind, low cloud and snow. However, it didn’t put our gritty Monster Skiers off the task in hand. With their vertical footages well underway, they had to add substantially to them today in case we encountered even worse weather later in the week. All groups battled through rain lower down, a chilly wind all over, and shot-blasting ice crystals and slushy snow to keep the momentum of the challenge going; all their hard work paid off.
Amazingly, one group managed to bag over 52,000 feet which, considering the conditions, was truly amazing; they were ably assisted in this by their Australian Diplomatic Corps ski guide, Max, whose attitude to their pain and suffering was ‘get over it, just think what it’s for’. One of the other groups skied over 31,500 feet with special mention going to Dai and Gareth for some of the pluckiest and gutsy skiing given their level of expertise. The other group also added to their totals.
Sadly one of our group is still in the UK due to the volcanic eruptions and will not now be able to make it out; we’re having Nick stand in for him to ski his totals instead.
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