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CAMP OF CHAMPIONS COUNTDOWN

Posted by Steve Petrie on 17 June 2010 | 2 Comments

Tags: Camp of Champions, Blackcomb glacier

With one week to go until the start of the Camp of Champions summer ski and snowboard camp and the park is really starting to take shape.

The large , medium and progression jump lines are in, the mini pipe has been stepped out and is ready to cut, the rails have been flown up to the glacier by helicopter and the Jump for the Billabong TTR event has been pushed and will have the take off built by the end of the weekend. The diggers will be up on the snow on Friday to start with rail installation and hand shaping. We have pushed tons of snow in the last three weeks and there is still plenty to go around. I took a walk around the COC zone yesterday with a 10 ft probe and couldn’t find the bottom. Temperatures have been slightly cooler than usually in Whistler this spring so we haven’t seen any significant snow loss up on the Horstman Glacier. In fact, we received about 4 cm of new snow down to the bottom of the Catskinner Chair on Tuesday.  Its shaping up to be an epic summer!