BANFF & WHISTLER/BLACKCOMB

THE TRUTH ABOUT CANADIAN SKIING-A spring visit to Lake Louise, Mt. Norquay, and Sunshine Village, (all in the Banff ski region) along with a week in Whistler/Blackcomb provided a textbook lesson in the many differences between skiing in North America and in the Alps. It also revealed that certain myths about Canadian skiing exist in the minds of many Europeans. Did you know that the Canadian Rockies had no destination ski resorts as late as the early 1970s?...that Whistler/Blackcomb gets only about one sunny day a week?....or that one can ski much more powder in the Alps than in Canada, but Canada is a good place for mogul skiing? The differences between Banff and Whistler are also acute. Banff offers a low key atmosphere, pristine virgin nature and immense wilderness in its national park, and the stunning Banff Springs Hotel, one of the most beautiful hotels in the world. Whistler/Blackcomb, on the other hand, offers the largest vertical in North America, an emphasis on extreme terrain, one of the most popular resorts on the continent, and all the hype and hoopla that one would expect in this island of excess.







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