The bus up to Canadian Wilderness Adventure’s base was tense. Like me, most of the group were first time snowmobilers and we were on the “Night Rider” tour heading up Blackcomb Mountain. We all stuck nervously to our groups on the first leg of the tour, but by the time we returned it would be a whole other story.
The Whistler Sliding Centre runs a public bobsleigh program that encourages everyone to experience the raw speed and tumultuous turns that the Olympians felt in 2010.
End the year on a creative high at Garfinkel’s. Tomorrow, Tuesday Dec 30 at Garfinkel’s we’re showcasing two talented artists. Both artists have been a hit at the live Art Throw-Down nights but now first Tori Hillier and then Chad Depner will have their own time to shine as they paint live – just for fun, just for you.
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Our social media team scoured the Gibbons photo and video banks picking out some of the key events from 2014 and placed them in one epic slideshow.
It’s been an interesting start to the season in Whistler, to say the least. Here is a crash course on what’s been going on in the area around Whistler Blackcomb, here in the West Coast Mountains of British Columbia.
Now in its 10th year, the Coldsmoke Winter Film Tour has become a time honored tradition in the winter culture and it’s coming to Whistler this Saturday, December 20 at Millennium Place.
Stepping into the sun on Whistler Mountain gave me the biggest goofy grin. Snow carpeted everything. When looking up from town I could only see one section of the mountain range. From up here the endless peaks looked like sharp white teeth in a dark forest jawline – I felt the immensity of where I was.
Fabulous news for beer lovers in the Okanagan as a new festival is in the works for Kelowna. Planning is underway for the Great Okanagan Beer Festival, the ‘little sibling’ to the extremely successful Whistler Village Beer Festival. If all…
The legendary Chairlift Revue will return for a holiday-inspired edition on Thursday, December 18 and Friday, December 19 at Millennium Place. Chairlift Revues are a long-standing tradition in Whistler, with the first performances starting in the mid-80’s.
It’s clear why this production has become a Whistler legacy – it’s a way for snow-loving folk to celebrate the shared experiences of conversations and encounters that take place on the lifts. For those of you unfamiliar with the Chairlift Revue they are…
My friend Josh started a conversation about ski touring and the huts that had been built over the last 50 years in back country valleys around this area. He’d been to one last winter and wanted to confirm it was still in action – I was game for the adventure.
I was bungee jumping straight after work and I’d decided the night before that I wanted to be hung over for it. When you’re a little ill it’s like there is a bubble wrap on everything around you – I become more nonchalant about impending acts of adrenaline like jumping off a bridge. But still I was prepared to be scared, this was my first bungee jump and ‘friends’ seemed to enjoy messing with my head.