March 1, 2008 | Tips from Us > Whistler, Snowboarding
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Yesterday I finally had the pleasure to ride down the
Peak to Creek run in Whister. The run starts at the top of Whistler mountain. The sun was shining and the views were spectacular. People were stopping to take pictures everywhere. The ride down was perfectly groomed and moderately difficult (a blue run). There were very few people on the run and I was flying down the seven kilometer long, covering about 1500 meters of vertical. I was all by myself, with
DJ Tiesto cranked on my iPod. As I was going down, I had one of these "it doesn't get any better than this moments" everybody should have once in a while. Stopping only once to take this picture, I think I was down at Dusty's pub in about 10 or 15 minutes. Nobody will be able to take this moment away from me.
February 13, 2006 | Tips from Us > Apex Mountain Resort, Snowboarding
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The ski and snowboard season has been very good in BC so far and it's only mid-february. After riding in Whistler a few times and a weekend in Sun Peaks, my wife and I crossed off our next resort in BC. We flew into Penticton and about 45 minutes by taxi later we arrived in Apex. Apex is smaller than some of the other resorts but that doesn't mean you'll run out of things to do. The information on HelloBC sums it up nicely.
We had ski-in/ski-out at the the Apex Mountain Inn & Spa and the gun barrel pub was next door. The snow is excellent right now and the runs vary from easy to very challenging. We also spent a great deal of time in the new terrain park.
We took the Sun Bus back to Penticton instead of a taxi and saved ourselves a few dollars. Now that I'm entering this blog from my Hotel in Penticton it has started snowing again so I assume a layer of fresh powder will ensure this season of powder will continue.