Replying to Dear whistler people.

So im heading out to whistler with 3 friends in just over a week. I leave boston the 20th, will be skiing whistler monday-thursday. Soo a few questions... How are the parks looking? Naturally as an EC-er I will be hitting a fair amount of park while im out there. I have been there once before and remember the big blackcomb park being pretty nice but that was a while back and I was young. I know you guys aren't stoked on your snow this year as you had an epic year last year, but where should I go to get the best stuff? Mostly inbounds.. we dont have avy gear and or knowledge and I know the BC out there is pretty unstable right now. Where is the best skiing found on the mountain? And last question... the 2 younger of us (2 17 year olds) only own park skis. We are both good skiers with racing backrounds and such but now we are park rats and thus, have skinny, dull edged park skis. Would it be massively better if we rented some fatter skis while we were out there? Any good places to do this in or around the village?