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Anonymous
Seattlefag here. I love going to Canada. I am a skier, and I head to whistler once or twice a year. I also have gone camping and canoeing there as a scout, including going to the Scouts Canada Pacific Jamboree.
The Jamboree was kind of pathetic, because my troop was a fairly hardcore hiking outfit at the time. the Canadian scouts seemed to run everything off of propane, and slept on cots in big tents instead of the REI half dome plus tents and foam mattresses we used everywhere we went. also, our troop out-hiked everyone in the jamboree including the guides on the one hike we went on there, because that is what we do.
Whistler is Elysium. I prefer blackcomb to whislter moutain, especially in less than optimal weather conditions, because it is slightly more sheltered so you can ski the high mountain stuff in worse weather. the whistler peak chairs shut down during bad weather, and were closed last time i went (last December).
Culturally, whistler is very strange. it isn't really canadian, it is international cosmopolitan and there are a lot of people with funny accents there. It is strange to see some half retarded flatlander with an $800 goretex racing suit and $150 skis (I my ski clothing, excludiong glves, helmet and boots totals about $100. my skis and boots total about $1800, and i like them a lot.) There are a lot of very strange people in whistler, and it is a truly international melting pot of fashion. Having turned 19 last summer, i have begun to experience the apres ski experience, and while expensive it is quite fun.
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