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Page 16, January 28, 1 1979- “Sandy News

have finally c come. to Whistler 1: Mocniain 75 miles
north of Vancouver, British Columbia, and skiing
conditions are improving daily. =

More. than 30 ‘centimeters: it “was difficult to find more
of snow fell last week,
bringing the total snow base given run, and there were
to 100 centimeters at the. blue skies and _Plenty of
Roundhouse, and over 50 sunshine.

‘centimeters i in the Valley. ‘

~ Added to this, a temperat-
ure inversion gave’ the top of
the mountain a comfortable
average of minus three
degrees Celsius, while the
valley floor was registering -

This is not the usual depth
for Whistler Mountain, ‘but
neither is it the lowest
reported at this time in past
"years.

. _. ten to fifteen degrees.

Ski areas seem tobe rumor .
mills. Despite some rumors,
and what may. have sounded imeters are only about half

: like poor Skizeports, some of ‘the usual at this time of the
. the best skiing of the season year for Whistler, but the
..was available in early few-rocks and twigs still

January at Whistler. Snow showing could easily be
- conditions were hard pack, missed because there were
: there were no crowds, infact so few skiers.

. Snow depths of 100 cent-

A total of 104 skiers Cathy .Huser of Salmo
representing 14 clubs from Valley and the B.C. ski team
all the province took part in finished first in the girls
a B.C. Cup race at Grouse. section with Kelli Lee of Red

Mountain Racers in second
.o The event was sponsored and Wendy Morrison of

by the Grouse Mountain Whistler Mountain in third.
Tyee Ski Club.

Top spot for boys went to

The majority of the young Chris McIvor of Red
Skiers have come up through Mountain Racers with Bob
the ranks of the Nancy Barnett of Whistler in
Greene ski program. second place and Scott

_ Argyle_swamped
Aquinas fools .
the experts

The St. Thomas
Aquinas Senior Girls’
Basketball team scored
an easy win over Argyle
last week in what was
expected to be an,even.
match between the
league’s top two teams.

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In other basketball action,
North Van defeated Howe
Sound 43-26 Jan. 18 and then
continued on to beat Sentinel
$7-40 Jan. 23.

Handsworth beat West
Van 52-36 and St. Thomas
Aquinas beat Hillside 58-34
on Jan. 23.

League standings as of

The final score was 78-38 Jan. 25 are: .
with the half-time score Wins Losses
reaching 51-20. S1. Thomas Aquinas 6 0
' . Argyle 4 I
Shannon Senft, a grade 11. Handsworth 4 3
Student at St. Thomas Hillside 3 2
Aquinas, was high scorer of | Carson Graham 3 2
the game with 21 points. Her Windsor | 2 1
sister Tara was second with North Van 2 4
19. Marna Moeller of Argyle Sentinel 2 4
scored 14 of her team's 38 Howe Sound 1 4
points. West Van 0 6

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than ‘a dozen skiers on any _ gested!

- Tyees.
organizers, there is more

‘Most skiers coming off the _

mountain’ reported condit-

‘ions much better than they

had~-expected from snow
reports, and certainly better
than some rumors

_ Perhaps the very best runs
early this year were on the
new Little Red Chairlift.
Little Red runs 1,200 meters
from the 1,588 meter level to
the top of the blue chair at
1,859 meters elevation.

The high capacity lift,
handling 1,440 skiers per
hour, serves the upper half of
the Red Chairlift area,
including the Whiskey Jack
-Papoose.

Little Red, Whistler’s
tenth lift, helps to serve a
total of 4,280 vertical feet of
skiing that varies from trails,

Tyees taking new members

Wooley of the host club ~

Tyees in third. -

There are 40 boys and girls
comprising three teams with
‘According to

room for new applicants who
wish to train on Saturdays

‘and race on Sundays.

sug- -

- Lain runs.

deep powder bowls and .
wide-open runs to steep
faces. This newest lift ”
complements the gondola, °
six chairlifts, (four of which
are over a mile in length),
and two alpine T-bars. — :

1979 SPIRIT

New Liftback.

The total of 15 kilometers
of lifts and 28 designated
runs offer s [7g for every
type of skier.

Garibaldi Lifts Limited has
also added a large new
maintenance building at the
1.850 meter level to house
the large fleet of grooming
machines and accessories
that are kept busy night and
day. on the Whistler Moun-

automatic transmission
quiet insulation package
whitewall tires -
rally stripes «

front disc brakes

front sway bar

custom steering whee!
rear bumper guards

drip rail moldings

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Whistler plays host to the
World Cup Downhill - March
¢, one of the major events of
the Canadian ski scené this
winter.

In order to. start racing or
competitive skiing, a person
must be a ski club member
which is sanctioned by the
Canadian Ski Association.

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