My friend Jonathan and his coworkers earned themselves an all expenses paid trip to Whistler, Canada for the weekend, and lucky me, I got to tag along!! It was the most amazing weekend! Fresh powder skiing both days, two huge mountains with fabulous terrain, and lots of fun. We even managed to meet two really cool local people on the lift, who we instantly made friends with, and then they were our personal mountain ski guides the rest of the weekend, showing us to all the best secret stashes on the mountain. We skied so hard that even my legs were toast by the end, and then we topped it off with a little back country powder snowmobile adventure. I tell you, Whistler is the Disneyland of the Skiing...totally incredible! I can't wait to find a way to get back as soon as possible!
Saturday morning, Jonathan and I are all smiles as we head up the gondola on the Whistler side to get our share of almost a foot of fresh powder!
Riding up the Peak Chair with our new friends Wes and Rebecca.
Looking back down the valley from the Peak Chair on Whistler Mountain.
Riding the Peak to Peak Gondola from Whistler to Blackcomb with Jonathan, Wes, and Rebecca.
The Peak to Peak Gondola set records for being the highest and longest freely suspended lift (or something like that)...Unfortunately it was too foggy to get the full effect, but looking out you could still tell you were going a long way down into the abyss!
Even Jonathan was a little nervous at that height!
Jonathan and James enjoying the window views of the village from the day bed in our sweet pad.
Nichole and Jonathan enjoying a little Apres at the Garibaldi Lift Company slope-side bar.
We were all smiles after an incredible day of powder skiing!
Sunday morning brought even more powder for us to shred...looking out from the gondola at the winter wonderland that is Blackcomb!
We found some amazing terrain and good, long steeps in the Spanky's Ladder area.
Rebecca and I were all smiles after getting fresh powder in Ruby Bowl three runs in a row!
The line-up of people trying to hike up Spanky's Ladder...after seeing it like this, we realized it was very appropriately named!
Looking down into Garnet Bowl where I still found fresh snow at 12:00...that never happens at Squaw!!
Jonathan checking out the amazing views and terrain in Spanky's.
Riding up the Glacier Chair we found so many cool rock formations all over the place!
Skiing back down to the village from the upper lifts after you are "done skiing" is still a really long run...somewhere around 10-15 min even for fast skiers like us!
Couldn't get the grin off my face after the amazing weekend of skiing we just had!
And as if all the skiing wasn't enough, now we headed out into the back country past Blackcomb for a cool snowmobile adventure!
Pretty views and lots of fun fresh powder to rip around in...it started out fresh, but we tore the place up!
Me getting my snowmobile stuck on a powdery hillside!
The guide helping dig me out of the powdery hillside. Those guys don't have quite the glamorous job that you might think...apparently they dig out each client an average of 2 times, talk about hard work with 5+ clients!
Jonathan trying to get rad and looking like he knows what he's doing (looking like being the operative words here)!
My friend Trevor always makes this sport look so easy, but believe me, ripping around varied terrain in the deep powder was not easy at all...I got stuck 3 times! Luckily these still shots make me look like I was much more bad ass!
Talk about a gorgeous place to be in!
Great views from the summit.
Nichole and James up at the summit.
Jonathan and I showing off for the photo opp!
Although we were so sad to be leaving, the beautiful drive back to Vancouver along the "Sea to Sky Highway" is still part of the adventure. The ocean seems to go almost all the way up to Whistler...so cool!
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