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Whistler: a Â…summer tourist mecca or a place to fling oneself roughly down a mountain?
2013/04/13 by admin · Leave a comment
It has been many years since going to Whistler. My family doesn’t ski or snowboard and thus there has been a low desire to take effort to travel from Vancouver to Whistler. When the 2010 Winter Olympics were announced and the subsequent Highway 99 (Sea-to-Sky) upgrade was started, many of us Vancouver types stayed off the road. For years. Recently during a weekend getaway with my kids in Squamish, I thought, what the heck. It’s summer, the scenery will be amazing and Whistler is only an hour away. And when I say an hour, I mean it literally. From the […]