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Learning to Ski – Whistler (& my epic ski-losing fall!)

Learning to Ski – Whistler (& my epic ski-losing fall!)

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I’ve written one other post about learning to Ski on Mount Seymour. So our next adventure was a little further afield in Whistler. I did look at signing up for skiing lessons in Whistler, but they were reeeeeally expensive. So, we decided to spend the day practising what we’d learnt during our first lessons. We have more lessons booked on Cypress Mountain in February, so anything we can do to improve before that, would be great! We had a fantastic…

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You can't kiss with goggles!
Learning to Ski in Vancouver – Mount Seymour

Learning to Ski in Vancouver – Mount Seymour

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This is a review about learning to ski on Mount Seymour. It has always seemed to me that most people that love skiing are people that first learned when they were children, and so have always been able to slide down slopes gracefully. It just doesn’t seem like the kind of thing that any sensible adult would like to learn from scratch. At the same time, I love mountains so it seems a shame that I’ve never had the pleasure…

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Vancouver – North Shore Trails – Whyte Lake

Vancouver – North Shore Trails – Whyte Lake

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Last weekend I did my first Vancouver walk in the snow! I joined a lovely group of Wanderung people for a hike on the North Shore to Whyte Lake. We had planned to keep going along the Baden Powell Trail to West Knob viewpoint. However the snow and lack of visibility encouraged us to change plans and walk back along a Seaview trail instead. Wanderung is a hiking club with a few thousand members in Vancouver. Anyone can sign up and organise…

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Vancouver Walks – Dam Mountain

Vancouver Walks – Dam Mountain

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I’d like to tell you about another fun hike near Vancouver; Dam Mountain! This one is really easy to access with public transport. Dam Mountain is the next mountain along from Grouse Mountain, in the wintertime you can hike up with snowshoes (it is called the Snowshoe Grind.) The the summer, it is a short-ish hike from the Grouse Mountain Lodge. The first time we visited, our plan was to climb Grouse Mountain, Dam Mountain, Little Goat Mountain and Goat…

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