We flew from Cincinnati to Salt Lake then to Vancouver. We all got upgraded to first class on the flight to Vancouver. We took a bus from Vancouver to Whistler. Our trip was great except for the non-stop screaming babies from Australia on our 2.5 hour bus ride.
The Whistler Hilton is very nice. After settling in, we went for a walk through the Village; its beautiful. Lots of shop and places to eat. Everything was fully decorated for Christmas. They had 14 feet of snow before we arrived. It looks like a Christmas card.
The next morning Nathan and Bob were up early for Snowboarding on Blackcomb mountain. It snowed 7 inches at night. The locals call it a “Powder Day”. The conditions were great. Everywhere we went we found excellent boarding. The mountain is so big it’s hard remember where you’ve been.
The run of the day was a two hour guided tour. Just by chance, we got into a free mountain tour and that really helped our bearings. We really liked the terrain parks (jumps and rails for tricks) and “glade” runs trough the trees. We learned that Whistler was designed by skiers choosing runs they liked best while Blackcomb was designed by computer; they digitized the mountain and then mapped the fall lines.
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