Blackcomb Greens By Aloha Whistler
Travel Blogs from Whistler
Leaving Whistler and the kindness of strangers
... this couple were so friendly & parent like that we agreed to catch a ride from them. We told the bus driver that we would no longer need to catch the bus & headed back to the coffee shop to meet our new friends after they had finished their walk. when they returned we headed to the nearby car Together with David & Yvonne's dog Dudley who is 17. Travelling back to Vancouver we found out that David & Yvonne were both retired primary school teachers who met ...
Don't look down!
... more calm this time.
We had promised Robbie some ice cream the day before but never found any. We did find some gelato at the top of the mountain that he didn't like, but Josephine loved. Ok, we know ice cream isn't for babies, but she only had a few tastes and certainly wanted more!
Andrew convinced Robbie to bravely take the chair lift to the real peak of Whistler. Josephine was too small to go, so she and I stayed in the ...
Bats, switch backs and alpine villages
... br>
Eventually after about 4 hours we arrived at Whistler and found a small campsite called Riverside. The site is really big but its walk in only so we have to cart all our stuff from the car but I guess we better hget used to it as were not going to have the car for much longer. The good thing about the site is that it has a path running through it that leads all the way into the town. We walked along it this afternoon its about 2miles but its ...
Vivacious Vancouver
... just across False Creek from Downtown. Unfortunately Granville Island Brewery was closed for upgrades, but we got to sample their beers at a number of establishments and we can highly reccomend their Winter Ale. At the marketz we sampled a Chocolate Raguloh, Salmon Bagel, and some more apparently 'Gourmet' coffee that was rubbish. In fact the best coffee we had on the trip was the Nespresso capsules in our hotel - the ...
Let it snow
... which was the first obstacle.
The obstacles were split into 4 difficulty levels, each level had 7 or 8 different activities and it was pretty obvious when you went up to the next level. Firstly everything was colour coded and secondly the obstacles ranged from 'I could do this blindfolded’ to ‘Better open my eyes for these’ to ‘This is a bit tricky’ and finally ‘Ouch, this obstacle smacking me in the leg is almost impossible ...