We spend some days here in Whistler, BC, the place of the 2010 Winter Olympics. Much has changed since our first visit in early 2001 or so, and today Whistler is a year round sport and adventure activity place. What in winter is used as ski slopes are in summer downhill bike trails, steep enough to break every bone in your body. We are less adventurous and take the Blackcomb Gondola, then transition to the Peak 2 Peak Gondola at the Rendezvous Lodge at Blackcomb Mountain, which we take several times forth and back, and then come back with the Whistler Village Gondola. We have nice views of Whistler and Blackcomb Mountain, the Blackcomb Bowl and Horstman Glacier, and all the other peaks around.
Also the view down into the valley and Green Lake and Alta Lake and the whole area around Whistler is just nice. We spend quite some time up here and some more in town, which is full of restaurants and sport shops, and of course numerous shops selling those super expensive downhill mountain bikes. If I was 20 years younger it would be certainly a thing for me, but today the bones won't heal so easy anymore, and I better watch the others enjoying this sport (I still feel my elbow from my fall in Toronto, what now, eight, ten weeks?).
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