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Article by Groshan Fabiola

Canada welcomes tourists with a highly diversified selection of competitive ski and boarding vacations. Whether you are interested in a five-star luxury vacation at a top-notch resort with included gourmet meals, impeccable accommodation conditions, and soothing mountain lodge spa services, or are simply looking for a secluded and quiet rustic lodge that only provides the bare essentials, you will undoubtedly find it in Canada.

Resort-based forms of skiing

Canada encompasses numerous reputable ski resorts ranging from the east to the west. Similar to the US, Canada’s largest alpine territory that is suitable for skiing and boarding spreads out in the western side of the country, in provinces like British Columbia and Alberta. To the east, most Canadian resorts can be found in the provinces of Quebec and Ontario.

Canada’s – and North America’s – largest and most popular ski resort is Whistler Blackcomb in British Columbia, which numbers among the top voted and best rated resorts in the whole world. The alpine skiing territory spreads on more than 8,000 acres, and features over a mile of vertical descent. A rapidly growing and increasingly famous resort is the recently founded Revelstoke, which presents skiers and boarders with the opportunity to try out the longest vertical drop in the country – 5,620 feet at Whistler Blackcomb Mountain. Other famous resorts in the east include names like Le Massif and Mt. Tremblant. BC cat skiing and snow cat boarding

British Columbia is renowned the world over for offering an impressively large array of cat-skiing operations for winter sports enthusiasts looking to escape the crowded lift lines and tracked-out snow characteristic to regular mountain resorts. According to statistics, a staggering 95% percent of the world’s cat skiing and snow cat boarding companies are operating in British Columbia, and there are dozens of dedicated operations to choose from in the area. BC cat skiing and snow cat boarding operators offer both daily and multi-day services, the latter including stays at mountain lodges, hotels, and various other properties.

Backcountry accommodation options

For tourists who can’t afford a heli skiing or cat skiing trip, or who are looking for a more peaceful way to spend their winter holiday, Canada offers a vast selection of huts and lodges that can be booked for backcountry ski/ boarding trips. Ski tours are a great option for exploring the picturesque backcountry scenery in British Columbia and Alberta, allowing you to travel from hut to hut and visit popular tourist objectives.

The “Powder Highway”

Standing out as one of the most sought after ski/ boarding vacation options in British Columbia, the Powder Highway provides a balanced mix of snow cat boarding/ skiing, backcountry skiing/ boarding, and even helicopter skiing/ boarding. This encompassing winter vacation package offers tourists access to eight competitive ski resorts, around two dozen cat skiing/ heli skiing operations, and an abundance of backcountry lodges and touring services. In the peak season when the snow conditions are right, the Powder Highway also gives winter sports enthusiasts the chance to ski or board fresh, impeccable, champagne-like powder in breathtakingly beautiful mountainous territory.

Article by Dale Montz

When there isn’t snow anywhere else, Whistler has it and this year a peak to peak gondola is opening in December. The exact location of this exciting opening is at Whistler Blackcomb Resort.

Anyone that has visited Whistler knows what this means and if haven’t visited the area you will want to put it on your list for the best winter sports area around. This new attraction will give skiers and snowboards access to at least 8,000 acres of fun on the two mountains. They will have 28 gondolas which will move at least 2,000 people per hour going in both directions, so this won’t be an experience that just a few will be able to experience, it will accommodate almost anyone that wants to go.

When you get to Whistler, you can play in the snow all day and play at the hotels and resorts all night, you can rough it or go all out luxury. This is an area that couples honeymoon at when they have winter weddings, it is pristine and romantic. This also an area that families love to come and do family time together, there is something for everyone and most of the resorts and hotels cater to children and their fun and needs.

You can contact your personal website travel agent for specials on their website that include Whistler, this will make your trip very affordable as the specials include air and hotel accommodation at really reduced rates. This makes planning a trip so easy as all the arrangements can be made for you and you just pack your bags and go.

Don’t want to haul all of your winter sport equipment along, no problem, rental places are readily available all over Whistler, with all kinds of selections and equipment just like you have at home, again you can reserve your favorite sport equipment prior to leaving home so are sure to have what you like and are use to.

Plan your winter sport vacation at Whistler now, you won’t be disappointed; it is truly a winter paradise with absolute perfect snow. Make your reservation now and we will see you on the mountain(s).