Whistler!!

Well i've just about completed day 7 at Whistler.  It's been a busy 7 days filled with lots of snowboarding, enjoying the Telus Festival and occasional partying haha.

I've been staying in a 4 storied condo in the area of Creekside in Whistler.  It's pretty flash and very Canadian.  Sharing with 8 other people has been an interesting experience!!  I've seen a lot over the past week including men cooking and cleaning (no i'm serious - true story)!!  We have had a bear come and visit and eat the food that was chucked up over our balcony hahaha.  We have piles of alcohol bottles as high was the mountain behind us and a fridge almost empty of it's food.  

Whistler has two mountains:  Whistler and Blackcomb.  Both mountains have been awesome to snowboard on but the highlight was definately the Peak to Peak gondola which is brand new and goes between the tops of both mountains.  

 Peak to Peak facts:

*  Each gondola cabin can hold 28 people and can transport 2050 people/hr each way. 

*  It's speed is 7.5 seconds per minute 

*  Ride time 11 minutes T

*  Total distance 4.4 km  

*  Length of unsupported span  -  3.024km/1.88 miles (straight line between the two towers       that are furthest apart) and 

*  Highest Point above the ground is 436m/1427 feet over Fitzsimmons Creek

It was awesome to ride on.... just not when it had a sway on haha!!

I only saw a little bit of the Telus Festival that has been on here.  Theres been a lot of live music, free give aways (I have razors and parfume to last a year now), interactive activities and competitions.  The half pipe competitions were awesome to watch... the air the skiers and snowboarders get off the half pipe is amazing!

The weather has been quite interesting.  One day it's bright blue skies, the next it's raining, the next it's foggy, then snowing - repeat.  So I wasn't really used to this as weather back in Panorama was always consistant.  The mountains have been quite icey to ride on but later on in the afternoons they softened up to nice slushly snow.  

Today we ventured up to the summit of Whistler mountain... took some great photos and jumped on the Inukshuk  -  the rock statue thats the symbol of the 2010 Olympics.  It's meaning is:  Safe travelling in Northern America.  It was really cold and my hands couldn't stay out of my gloves for very long to take photos in fear of them freezing off hehehe.  Which was strange as when you got back down to the village I was back in a t-shirt again.

So I think I can officially say 'Whistler... I came, I saw and i've conquered'.

Next stop... Vancouver Island :)