Arrived at the top and got our photos taken with the Olympic Rings. Then hiked up the mountain on a 'not too steep' walk to the peak express chairlift. 'Not too steep' the lady said!!! I'd hate to know what she calls steep. That would have been why we were the only people walking up and everyone else had caught the chairlift up and were walking down!! The walk through the snow walls was amazing though! The tallest ones had to have been 7 metres high either side which was pretty cool. It started raining as we got to the top and the temperature got really really cold!! We caught the chairlift down in the rain- it was so cold we thought we were going to get frostbite in our fingers. The view however, was spectacular!! We rewarded ourselves in the lodge with a coffee or hot chocolate- never tasted so good. 😃
Then from one mountain to the other- we took the Peak 2 Peak gondola from Whistler to Blackcomb - 4.4 kms across- a world record length!! Ian spotted a bear as we were going across so we had to take the gondola across 5 times until everyone had seen a bear lol!! They were tiny as we were so high up but it was still pretty amazing to see them in the wild! We even caught the glass bottom gondola across once. Finally we got off at Blackcomb Mountain and took the chairlift down. It was a beautiful view of the whole valley- Ian and Josh even spotted a couple of deer! Back to our apartment for hot showers to warm up, a nice dinner and a family game of Monopoly. Awesome day!
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