Dissapoitment at Big White

Big White
Big White is a huge ski resort, with a big village. The night I arrived I went out to the bar and discovered that the night life is much better than Silver star's, mostly because there are more people and more bars. The skiing on the other hand kind of fell apart. Big white is known for it's constant white out conditions, and it didn't disappoint. The hill always seems to be fogged out, light snow, or in our case, raining. The rain got you wet, then you skied and it froze to your glasses and when you combined it with the fog led to a long day of whiteouts, pulled mussels and an urge to curse in several different languages. We skied there 2 days and I have some comments about it, first for a hill that is well known for having lack of visibility (the hill is known by the locals as Big Whiteout) the marking of the runs is horrible as I missed many of the runs when I had good visibility the first day, the connecting runs between the lifts is horrible, a lot of hill climbing to get to many of the runs that on any other hill you would glide to. Another unfortunate fact, several of the runs were closed due to lack of snow, about 24 of the 118, and the ones that were closed were the best runs. The skiing was just hard, the snow was heavy, sticky, and the complete opposite of the conditions on Silver Star. The problem with the snow was that it built up on your skies and made them incredibly heavy and hard to handle. The conditions were bad enough that even the ski patrol guys crashed. On one run I decided to follow a ski patrol because I couldn't see anything and I figured that they at least would know where they were going. Well about 3 minutes later I see the ski patrol guy crash and violently eject his poles and skies high into the air and then rain down around him. I was impressed to say the least, and decided not to take it personally if I followed suit. All in all the ski hill scored rather low because of poor hill design, bad conditions, and poorly marking the runs.

Sorry no pictures, to foggy and not good enough to take pictures.

Total score 4/10
total runs 118, only 94 open
Largest elevation drop 777m
8 chair lifts and 1 t-bar
Lift ticket $71
Ski and stay package $73