Whistler

Next stop on the moose tour is Whistler famous primarily for its alpine skiing and mountain biking at Whistler-Blackcomb. The weather was very very kind to us and gave us two perfect blue sky days for the trip.

On the way to Whistler we stopped at Shannon Falls the third highest waterfall in BC, where water falls from a height of 335 metres. It was very beautiful as are all the waterfalls I've seen so far and from what I've heard I'll be seeing quite a few more. We arrived in Whistler at about 2pm and the first job our lazy driver did was to sort herself out with a G&T before organising any of our activities. This meant that by the time we were sorted there wasn't enough time to get up the Mountain gondola to check out the views, instead we watched some of the downhill MTB guys do tricks at the bottom of the park. Later we all went out for a meal which had to be organised amongst ourselves since our lazy arsed driver was busy relaxing, her excuse was that she didn't know Whistler, and I know it like the back of my hand do I?!

The hostel we stayed in was pretty cool and we were informed it had recently received several visits from bears, they even had photos of a bear on the other side of the balcony!

The following day myself, Matt and Ian went Zip Lining at Cougar Mountain about 10 mins away from Whistler. This was so much fun, it involves being harnessed to a trolley which is placed on a point to point cable line, almost like an electricity pylon except much higher, you then zoom through the forest canopy at up to 100km/hr. See www.skylinewhistler.ca for info.

After Zip Lining we decided that despite the fact we were due to leave at 3pm we were going to go to the top of the mountain anyway, stuff the lazy driver, it was 1:30pm and the ride up takes 45mins. We were so pleased we did though as the views of Whistler mountain range was amazing.

Got back to the hostel by 3:30pm so not too late, not that I felt bad. On the way back to Vancouver we stopped at another waterfall called Brandywine falls which had a little trick up it's sleeve, if you stare at one point for about 30 seconds then look at the cliff face next to it there is a strange illusion in that it looks like the wall is moving! The rest of the drive home was as breathtaking as the drive there with Mountain vistas all that way.

You could easily spend a week or two at Whistler there is so much to do, it is definitely a place I will be going back to!