Whistler

Trip Start Jun 10, 2008
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Trip End Mar 10, 2009


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Flag of Canada  , British Columbia,
Wednesday, June 18, 2008

After returning to Vancouver from Victoria, the same afternoon we headed for Whistler on the mighty Greyhound bus. The drive was amazing through the mountains and we saw plenty of snow caps for the first time in Canada. We loved Whistler from the get go, apart from the long walk up the hill to the hostel. It was a bit out of town but it was one of the best hostels we've stayed at. It was an old log cabin style mansion up on the hill. Whistler is a fairly samll town yet very cool and modern located a couple of hours north of Vancouver and wedged in the middle of the Coastal Mountain Ranges. They were even skiing in the middle of summer. Crazy!

We stayed 6 days in Whistler and on one of the days we hired bikes and cruised around the lakes and most of the local area. We even came face to face with a black bear riding along next to the golf course on our way back to the hostel. He was only small, but still big enough for both of us to cake our pants and hit reverse on our bikes. He didn't care about us one bit and just walked around us before we rode off. There are signs everywhere in Whistler about it being bear country so we were watching our backs all day every day.
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