THURSDAY 21ST – EXPLORING WHISTLER

Today was spent exploring the mountainous terrain above Whistler. The highlight (excuse the pun) was the trip up to Mount Whistler – 6000 feet by gondola and another 1000 feet by chairlift.

The picture above is looking further up into the mountain ranges from Mount Whistler.

The top of Mount Whistler itself is quite desolate as this photo shows. It’s not a very good photo but if you look carefully, you can see the chairlift base station in the bottom right hand corner and just make out the chairlift poles heading up towards the highest point. Just over the ridge is where the photo below was taken.

From the top of the Mt Whistler gondola, we took the 4.4 km trip on the Peak2Peak Gondola which connects Mt. Whistler and Blackcomb. It’s a stunning ride. At the middle point, the gondola is 1300 feet above the valley floor. Trish wasn’t a bit nervous.

Needless to say, you get spectacular views of Whistler.

Whistler itself is a very smart village. It reminds me of a much larger version of Thredbo. There is a certain theme to the shops here.

Tomorrow we head further east. I don’t know where we will end up but there is some pretty interesting country ahead. 

As I am typing this, there is a storm brewing. It's very overcast and we can hear the occasional rumble of thunder but the Canadian Naked Grape Unoaked merlot is open and we are very comfortable with nowhere to go.