A million dollars is a thousand thousand dollars and that may seem like a lot of money, but in many ski resorts, a thousand thousand dollars does not buy much slopeside. Whistler, Aspen, Vail, Sun Valley, Breckenridge, Beaver Creek, and then try go to Europe with a thousand thousand dollars try to buy ski in/ski out. What happens when you go to a ski resort that has had OVER a thousand inches of snow in one season? If you owned a thousand thousand dollars condo, you will not ski here. Why? There are no condos here. Just real skiing for real skiers that only want that frozen white stuff falling from the ski heavens.
MauiSkiBus has heard about the legend that bakes a huge amount of snow and was not dis-appointed with the drive to this remote Wash. ski area. A resort has a ski village and those thousand thousand dollar condos, however, Mt. Baker has none. Just snow. Mounds of snow far overheard of MauiSkiBus’s rooftop dance floor. In fact, the snow here was above two MauiSkiBus’ and the season was not over.
Upon delivery of the Maui goodies to the Mt. Baker ski patrol, an invite was given to join and visit special areas of Mt. Baker. “See that gully down there”, a patroller stated going up the chair. “There is over 100 feet of snow down there from all the avalanche control work”, he mentioned, “And this is not even a heavy snowfall year”
In the distance from the ski resort, which is on the flanks of Mt. Baker, the blue ice of Mt. Baker’s glacier can easily be seen. A beauty to the eye as beautiful as any sight in Hawaii, a castle on a peak in the Alps, or the fall colors of Vermont. MauiSkiBus was relaxing and taking in this view, when an “Aloha” was echoed from above. How can one recognize another with ski clothes and googles on? The dude from above was Oliver Schipp, a sailing buddy from Maui that had seen the bright yellow MauiSkiBus in the parking lot. A fine day was had ripping up the snow of Mt. Baker, in some areas with the summer dirt 100 feet below my Fischer Watea powder skis.