If there's one thing anybody should do before they die it's meet Robjn Taylor. This long time whistler local and all around good guy is not only one hell of an athlete, but he's way up there on my personal list of creative and inspiring people that I've had the pleasure of running into. When you combine his ability to make a bad situation good with his ability to run with an idea you end up with something that you're about to read. Earlier on in the snowboard season, I approached Robjn up on Blackcomb Mountain with a few questions about which mountain he liked better: Whistler or Blackcomb. That conversation turned into three phone conversations and eventually ended up on paper about three months later. What you're about to read is one of the best comparisons between Whistler and Blackcomb done to date. Let us know if you agree or disagree with Robjn's scoring.

Powder Days On Whistler
It typically snows much more on Whistler than it does on Blackcomb. Everyone knows this. Go over to Sun Bowl! Check it out, it's not boring at all. They have the Symphony chair over there, which is kind of new and probably has padded seats. Bring a pocket-sandwich, do some hiking, build a booter, and use your [iPhone] 3GS to film you and your friends doing back flips off of it. That's the best idea for deep snow days.

Powder Days on Blackcomb
Fresh Blackcomb powder is the greatest shit ever, but it's highly volatile. So if you see any of it while you're riding around, you should probably just leave it alone. Stick to the groomed runs, or "the piste" as it's called by people who frequently eat more saffron than you. Speaking of fancy eating, Blackcomb's main restaurant, the Rendezvous, has fresh fajitas that come with your choice of four different types of salsa. One of them is green! For real.

Now, to keep things organized here, let's keep score per category: 
Points Awarded:  Whistler 4, Blackcomb 2

Crappy Weather Days on Whistler
Whistler's park is perfect for flooping around on those days when the light's too flat for getting crazy or there's 5cm of fresh snow kicking around for good times, but not enough to go shred the mountain. With an even flow and tons of different jibs you can continue to learn obscure tricks that no one else in the world can do, and then name them after whatever you ate for breakfast and/or your favourite animal, e.g., The Sausage Hawk.

Crappy Weather Days on Blackcomb
Similar to Whistler's park, is the Blue Park on Blackcomb. It's great in flat light for the same reasons, but the flow and jib options are a bit stunted, or less stunty, whichever way you want to look at it. However, you're right alongside the Black Park all day, so not only do you get to watch senders try to kill themselves in bad conditions, but if the weather changes suddenly... hot damn! You just hop into the Black Park and have the best time ever.

Points Awarded:  Whistler 2, Blackcomb 2.

Park Weather Days on Blackcomb
If it's two days after the last pow day and sunny, then you have yourself some perfect park conditions. You'll want to take advantage of this for sure. So in the morning, while you're eating sausages, you should obsessively watch footage (frame by frame if you have to) from the latest major slopestyle event, and that way you'll know what tricks are the hottest for you to try that day. Then go do some laps on the Catskinner chair and enjoy it's rickety slowness!  Seriously though, it's the best.

Park Weather Days on Whistler
These are the exact same as Crappy Weather Days on Whistler, except that it's sunny, and you're missing out on perfect park conditions on Blackcomb.

Points Awarded:  Whistler 1, Blackcomb 4

Summer on Whistler
Sightseeing and mountain biking and yawning.

Summer on Blackcomb
Snowboarding at Camp of Champions. Jumps, rails, friends, t-bar!

Points Awarded: Whistler -3, Blackcomb 685

Okay, so let's do a little math here... 
The Total Score:  Whistler 4, Blackcomb 693.

Well, it was close.

Robjn is also a funny guy both in front of and behind the camera. Here's Robjn's Filmmaker Showdown entry from this year:

And you can see his Winning entry from '08, Artbitrarily Pear, here.

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Video: Whistler Opening Day 2009