Mountain News and Conditions posted Sunday Apr 27th 2008

And Then There Were Two This is the last weekend for Lake Louise and Marmot. With Whistler shutting down the lifts last weekend we are now down to two operating resorts... Sunshine and Blackcomb. Sunshine - Closes May 20 Blackcomb - Closes June 8 I always like to get in at least one day in May at Sunshine. Soft snow, zero lift lines, sun tanning on a picnic table, and cold pitchers of beer really do it for me. I also have to get in another free day on my Sunshine card. This season the Louise and Sunshine cards were not good value for me. Conditions at Louise weren't great this season and I only made it to Fernie once. So I didn't get my 3rd free day on the Louise card. I only skied Sunshine 3 times this year. That's unusual since I usually get in my 7 days there. The big difference this year was 3 weekend trips to Kicking Horse and 4 weekends where I went backcountry instead of downhill - Oh and there was the Backside Tours trip to Big Mountain in there as well. In my opinion Kicking Horse is by far the best value in the rockies. And it really bugs me that the Louise card doesn't give as good a discount at Fernie. That's just bad customer service.