Whistler

What a lovely place Whistler is.

We arrived at Whistler late Saturday afternoon after a rather slow trip over from Lillooet.
The road between Lillooet and Whistler is terrible - I will never complain about Kiwi roads again! It was windy and steep - which is ok, but they sure need to do some repairs on the road. But if you weren't in a hurry (which we weren't) the slow trip gave you time to enjoy the scenery - which was very pretty. You could see the mountains changing from rugged, desert like to green forests (and rainy).

I haven't been to Whistler before so it was a nice treat. It is a very 'Swiss like' alpine village with the houses and resorts nestled in amoungst the trees, hardly even standing out.

The placed we stayed was very nice. The ski lift ran right past it so you could walk out of the hotel and head off skiing.
Of course there was no skiing at this time of the year, but what there was were hundreds of mountain bikers. In summer they use the lifts to take the riders and their bikes up the mountain, and then there are hundreds of trails for them to ride down.
Kyle thought this was fantastic as one didn't need to ride up hill - ever - it was all smooth sailing down. Actually it was far from smooth, we saw some of the jumps they had set up for the bikers and they looked down right scary!

On Sunday we did a ziptrek tour which took about 3 hours. It was great. They took us up the mountain a bit, we got to get right up close to the bobslede track they used for the olympics. Apparently next summer they plan to open the boblslede track for those adrenilin junkies to take a ride down - don't think it will be me as they average 130km /hr.

Anyway back to the ziplining. It was a rainy cold day so that put a bit of a damper on things, but it was still lots of fun. We would zip through the trees between the 2 mountains (Blackcomb and Whistler Mt) and come to rest way up in the top of the trees. It was great fun.
I was very upset that I forgot my 'little' camera which I could have taken on the tour, so I didn't get any photos. I did ask a lady to take a couple of pictures of us and she is going to email them to us when she gets home. So hopefully I will be able to show you how handsome we all looked in our yellow rain coats and fashionable hats and harnesses!

After we had dried off and warmed up we headed back to F/V.

We had a great weekend and I enjoyed my 40th birthday more than I thought I was going to.........