Posted on January - 22 - 2012
British Columbia’s Whistler getting a big share of the Sierra’s snow
Michael Zeiden had been planning on taking his 18-year-old son, Brandon, for a five-day ski trip to Mammoth Mountain earlier this month.
However, when he read the meager snow-depth reports at the big central Sierra resort, he began looking north, to British Columbia and Alberta, where La Nia and a high-pressure system over the eastern Pacific have been diverting most of this winter’s storms.
The Los Angeles businessman settled on Whistler Blackcomb, home to the 2010 Winter Olympics, which has received more than 17 feet of snow this season. More than 6 feet have come since Christmas, 2 feet of that after New Year’s.
“It’s been great,” says Zeiden, who skied for five days during the second week of January at Whistler, which has an impressive vertical drop of 5,280 vertical feet.