Blackcomb Mountain, BC

For the first time ever, Jay and I went on a winter “snow” vacation instead of a winter “sun” vacation. We just got home from a long weekend at Whistler. While not entirely injury free (we are both trying to learn to snowboard, and both had some falls on Saturday), we did have a lot of fun. This set of photos are from the day we went up the mountains on the lifts for some tourist activity. They just built a “peak to peak” gondola for the Olympics that goes between Blackcomb and Whistler mountains — it was quite a view.

We were joined on the trip with Jen, John, Colin, and our friend Jesse (who was John’s snowboard friend, since the rest of us are still beginners).

Here’s a little movie that I made to document our trip. I don’t have photos or video from the river part of our kayak adventure (only from the lakes) as during the river part I was concentrating on paddling so we wouldn’t run into the shore (but we did do that a couple times, oops). watch movie (Quicktime, approx 2 minutes)