Just got back from 5 days at Sun Peaks and we had some of the best conditions ever.
Drove up in a blizzard which was both scary and promising.
First day, there was still low clouds hanging about, but we found a stack of nice deserted black runs (with the odd tree in the way) and basically had a powder day, albeit, slightly heavy powder. Full on power day.
Next morning, clouds looked even lower, so we started heading up to the other side of the mountain, which is all blue(red) runs, but as we waited for people faffing about with lift passes, etc, my friend Joe and I looked up the other mountain and saw that the clouds were lifting and we took off. (The rest wanted to 'warm up' first).
We had fresh tracks every where we went for the first 2 hours and even had a local guy show us a few secret tree runs. Amazing dry powder that made double black diamonds a breeze to sail down on. As it finally got tracked out after lunch, we started heading into the trees (which there are a lot of).
Christmas day was a rest day and then yesterday was our 'last' day and most of us were still tired/bloated/hungover and was only going to a 'few runs', until we realized that there was still plenty of powder stashes to the side of the blue groomers, many leading in really nice tree runs. (I also managed to run into a few of them, but it was worth it).
Really been spoiled already this season and I only got 6 days in it!. (5 powder days!!)