kingslug
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Whistler...with some pics...
I haven't set up the pics yet as I got back a few days ago and have been pretty shot from the trip...20 hours to get home does that. I went for a week with a NYC ski club and even though we only got about 4 inches the whole week it was still an amazing place. Plan a full day to get there as its 2.5 hours from Vancouver airport, a very cool scenic ride though. The place in a word is vast, you could spend your lifr there and never get bored, as one 81 year old guide has been doing for over 30 years. They have 1500 ski instructors to give you an idea of how big it is, a village with 200 hundred stores and 100 places to eat..plan on spending money as nothing is cheap..I bought..nothing but food, plan on $100.00 per day for that. What you get is 8000 acres of every kind of terrain on the planet, plus 1 mile of vertical. This gives you 3 different climates as you rise up the mountain. They have pretty much 2 kinds of weather, snowing and foggy or sunny. We got 3 days of each, I prefered sunny so I could see the cliffs I was trying to avoid. Every day was different, the fog could be at the top, middle or bottom, this decided where you could safely ski. At the top you get bowls the size of entire eastern resorts, many of them. The double blacks where true double blacks..do not fall zones. The middle you get trees..millions of trees with every kind of run you can think of. I found the most interesting skiing under the lifts and Gondolas, insane bump runs with cliffs and trees that took us a half hour to get down. If you like groomers they have miles of them. Beginners get their own huge areas to play around in at the base. The ride across the 2 mountains is very cool and allows you to really explore the place. Best french toast at the Irish pub...highly recommended!
I haven't set up the pics yet as I got back a few days ago and have been pretty shot from the trip...20 hours to get home does that. I went for a week with a NYC ski club and even though we only got about 4 inches the whole week it was still an amazing place. Plan a full day to get there as its 2.5 hours from Vancouver airport, a very cool scenic ride though. The place in a word is vast, you could spend your lifr there and never get bored, as one 81 year old guide has been doing for over 30 years. They have 1500 ski instructors to give you an idea of how big it is, a village with 200 hundred stores and 100 places to eat..plan on spending money as nothing is cheap..I bought..nothing but food, plan on $100.00 per day for that. What you get is 8000 acres of every kind of terrain on the planet, plus 1 mile of vertical. This gives you 3 different climates as you rise up the mountain. They have pretty much 2 kinds of weather, snowing and foggy or sunny. We got 3 days of each, I prefered sunny so I could see the cliffs I was trying to avoid. Every day was different, the fog could be at the top, middle or bottom, this decided where you could safely ski. At the top you get bowls the size of entire eastern resorts, many of them. The double blacks where true double blacks..do not fall zones. The middle you get trees..millions of trees with every kind of run you can think of. I found the most interesting skiing under the lifts and Gondolas, insane bump runs with cliffs and trees that took us a half hour to get down. If you like groomers they have miles of them. Beginners get their own huge areas to play around in at the base. The ride across the 2 mountains is very cool and allows you to really explore the place. Best french toast at the Irish pub...highly recommended!
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