Dan Morgan wrote:

We went to Tahoe
this year (first week of March) and the snow wasn't brilliant,

You were a month too soon. All of the snow fell in Apri:

http://www.terrymorse.com/ski/trip/s...426/index.html

but a
local guy said something about El Nino affecting the conditions, does
anyone know if next winter in Whistler will be any good?

The Climate Prediction Center says that El Nino is fizzling, but
there's no sign of La Nina. What do these mean? El Nino means dry
conditions in Whistler and wet conditions in Tahoe. La Nina means
wet conditions in Whistler and dry conditions in Tahoe. The last La
Nina was 1999, when the entire Pacific Northwest got hammered with
snow.

The current observations say that the entire west coast should see a
"normal" winter. Read more at the Climate Prediction Center:

http://www.cpc.ncep.noaa.gov/
--
terry morse Palo Alto, CA http://www.terrymorse.com/ski/