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Well we went on the Gondala ride up to the top of Whistler Mountain and the view from up there was just beautiful!! can't wait to get the next CD burnt so that I can put the photos up for you all to see - there was snow everywhere up there so for the second time in my life I got to touch it and was pretty excited!! It was a bit chilly up there but not as cold as I thought it would be. We went for a bit of a walk and took a few pictures, made some snowballs and headed back down so that we could leave for Jasper.
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Well we went on the Gondala ride up to the top of Whistler Mountain and the view from up there was just beautiful!! can't wait to get the next CD burnt so that I can put the photos up for you all to see - there was snow everywhere up there so for the second time in my life I got to touch it and was pretty excited!! It was a bit chilly up there but not as cold as I thought it would be. We went for a bit of a walk and took a few pictures, made some snowballs and headed back down so that we could leave for Jasper.
On the way we passed through some 'Indian' reservations, and our tour manager told us that they are not referred to as 'Indians' anymore, that they are now called 1st Nationals to be politically correct! thought this was interesting since we'd just spend the past 2 months going through America with them being referred to as Indians...
The rockies are beautiful, and massive!! and we were told that the paths down the hills that don't have trees are where avalanches have been. Avalaches always pick the same path to travel. Alot
The rafts we went in
of people think that the snow brings down all of the trees in it's path but actually it is the wind pockets that are created by the avalanche which can travel ahead of the avalache at a speed of up to 200km.
There are strange bins everywhere through out the towns on the way that you nearly need instructions to open and we were told that they are bear proof bins - quiet clever really.
Passed through a town called Lilloot. It's the warmest town in Canada with the highest temperature recorded at 44.4 degrees... It was a balmy 23 degrees when we went through there and you could really notice it. It was about 9 degrees warmer than the previous town.
We then went through Kamloops, where the major industries are paper & pulp. There
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