Snow frosting for the Olympics.

Such planning may be more efficient football World Cup hosts South Africa can only dream: In the Canadian ski resort Whistler are now all venues for the Olympic Winter Games 2010. Hobby skiers can the Olympic downhill and cross country test.
  Whistler - Higher, further, Whistler: Just over a year before the Olympic Winter Games in February 2010 in Vancouver and Whistler in Canada's largest ski area is waiting now with another superlative on.
Since December connects the longest gondola floating freely in the world the first 4.5 kilometers away from each other Skiberge summit of Whistler and Blackcomb Mountain. 436 meters in height hovers the Peak 2 Peak "train above the valley - a thrill, the vertigo-free glass in the gondolas with Soil may even increase.
Whether any such thrill to appreciate, however, is questionable after at another lift in the ski area on Tuesday a central pillar einknickte. Dozens of people were sitting a long time in the fixed gondolas, 13 were injured, but was shortly afterwards dismissed from the hospital will. The manufacturer of lifts assured that such an accident with the new construction would be excluded.
Despite the incident: With his new summit connection logs of the famous resort province of British Columbia in western Canada ready for the games. Athletes appreciate the magnificent slopes and fast lifts, connoisseurs the multicultural flair and good restaurants with international cuisine in Whistler cook Japanese, Chinese and Indians as well as Mexicans, Italians, French and German. And of course, also missing classic steak houses not.
Because of the proximity to the Pacific may be in Whistler sometimes in the middle of the winter rain. The powder is still terrific then mutated to a white concrete. "But fortunately this happens infrequently," says John and announces 20 centimeters of fresh snow for the next night. John is one of the volunteers, the guests at the daily free "Mountain Tours" the best descents of the day show. "A dream job," says the retired teacher, was in Whistler on average nine meters of snow per year can be happy.
Perfection on the drawing board
"Whistler is' favorite wife Holles' and also Canada's largest 'ski-in ski-out resort,'" says John. Far more than 200 tracks and terrain sailings are in the truest sense on the doorstep: The elevator starts behind the house, and the runway ends at the hotel entrance. Such perfection can only be created on the drawing board. Indeed, the place not 50 years old. With its winding streets, small squares of stone and wood and shaped the city stands out Whistler, however beneficial effect of the cold-retorts from ski resorts elsewhere.
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If by 2010, the ski world in Whistler to Olympic medals fights, it will rapidly approach. All venues are ready. Anyone who dares can therefore already the men's departure "Dave Murray" or the ladies' departure "Franzs Run" to the 7600 target spectator stadium in the district Creek Side hinabstürzen.
Honors winner in the pedestrian zone
Cross-country skiers prefer their orbits in the "Olympic Park". Only 400 meters apart, here are three stages for the Nordic ski disciplines, biathlon and ski jumping emerged. Even the bob, luge and skeleton arena at the foot of Blackcomb Mountain may already be visited. The winning honors in Whistler's pedestrian zone at the "Celebration Plaza" will take place. "There at the podium to stand, would be a dream," said Germany's slalom ace Felix Neureuther. 2010, he together with the other athletes in the Olympic village on the southern town of Whistler resident.
"Many newcomers have very shiny eyes wide open when they arrive here," says Mike, located in the "service-Whistler Paradise" as "Dogsitter" around the dog takes care of the guests, so that Mr. Chen mistress and without the guilty conscience Runs can steam. Only the two-trip from Vancouver to Whistler's worth the flight, he says. Passing the fjords, where orcas cavort in the summer, the winds Route 99 opposite the snowcapped peaks.
From the rustic hut "Harmony hat" at the summit of Whistler Mountain looks north over a white no-man's-land with deep snow slopes. Disturbed only by a few traces of snow hare, the snow glistens like frosting in the sun. These departures left the heli-skiers reserved. In "Whistler Heli-Skiing" there is a trial with three slopes for beginners. Gutbetuchte rounder and on the other hand attracts the luxury version of adventure with three days of flight and accommodation in a five-star lodge.