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Whistler in Review: Part 3 - The Lifestyle

CANADA | Friday, 8 Apr 2011 | Views [5563]

Being a ski bum; working patchy hours for minimum wage; living in the Australian Refugee Camp, aka The Ghetto, aka Staff Housing; partying in Whistler; riding all the time? Is it worth it? The basic Whistler lifestyle is summarised beautifully in this ... Read more >

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Whistler in Review: Part 2 - The Village

CANADA | Friday, 25 Mar 2011 | Views [2085] | Comments [1]

Whistler in Review: Part 2 - The Village Whistler village was constructed in 1978 from the old garbage dump. So it was designed around the same time as these buildings . As you'd probably expect, most of the village is devoted to a combination ... Read more >

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Photos: Latest Whistler Happs

CANADA | Tuesday, 22 Mar 2011 | Photo Gallery

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Whistler in Review: Part 1 - The Mountains

CANADA | Sunday, 13 Mar 2011 | Views [3062] | Comments [1]

So after almost 5 months in Whistler, we have less than 3 weeks to go here. To look back at our time here, we'll be preparing three posts reviewing different aspects of our time here - the mountains, the village and the lifestyle. So with no further ... Read more >

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Whistler gets awesome.

CANADA | Thursday, 24 Feb 2011 | Views [2222]

So after a couple of quiet weeks, with not as much snow as we’d become accustomed to, we were starting to wonder if that was it for the season. The snow base dropped about 20cm, from around 245cm to 225cm, non-pisted runs were getting mogelled to the ... Read more >

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Photos: So. Much. Snow.

CANADA | Thursday, 24 Feb 2011 | Photo Gallery

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Christmas, New Year and other times in Whistler

CANADA | Monday, 17 Jan 2011 | Views [1935]

There's been a fair few happenings since our last blog. First stop, our engagement party. We had our engagement party at the Firerock Bar, before moving down to the Cinnamon Bear for more drinks. It was raining in the village that evening, so we got ... Read more >

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Photos: Engagement Party

CANADA | Tuesday, 11 Jan 2011 | Photo Gallery

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An Engaging Opening

CANADA | Thursday, 2 Dec 2010 | Views [1121]

So for those who don't facebook, or at least facebook either Bronwyn or myself, or don't communicate with people who do facebook us (you get the picture), Bron and I got engaged last week! It was our first day off together since Whistler had opened, ... Read more >

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Photos: Opening weeks of Whistler and engagement photos

CANADA | Thursday, 2 Dec 2010 | Photo Gallery

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Photos: Whistler - the night before opening

CANADA | Friday, 19 Nov 2010 | Photo Gallery

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Season's Eve

CANADA | Friday, 19 Nov 2010 | Views [609]

The last couple of weeks have been fairly slow, waiting for the season to kick off. The initial snow didn't quite last the afternoon. It warmed up for a bit and we spent time in the gym getting ready for the season, and in the pub, undoing our good work.... Read more >

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