Road Trip to Whistler

This weekend we went for a road trip to the ski town, Whistler. Its a two hour drive from Vancouver following a river inlet most of the way which made for a really nice drive. We made a couple of stops on the way to check out some scenery.

This was Porteau Cove...obviously

And we stopped at Shannon Falls

I love this tree I found at Shannon Falls, it looked like green velvet

This was our first view pulling into Whistler, its a smaller area just before the main village called Whistler Creek

The actual village in Whistler at the bottom of the mountains was so cute and styley

And of course I found some funny statues

At the little river down from our hostel I found this awesome handrail covered in crochet

Heres some views from the top of the main ski mountain

And from there we did the peak-to-peak gondola over a canyon to the other big ski mountain, the trees didn't come out so great in the picture but they all looked like they had been sprinked with icing sugar

That faint line running through the clouds is the peak-to-peak gondola

So...most people go to Whistler to ski or snowboard...I do neither of those. BUT instead we went tubing which was frikkin fun (I think we were the only adults there without kids though haha)



On our trip home we took the long way, travelling six hours inland and around in a big loop. The trip from Whistler up through Pemberton to Lillooet felt like we were driving through the North Pole to see Santa, we just kept buzzing about the views...it was hard to capture them in the car on the highway but this stretch of road went for about an hour or two in the middle of nowhere driving through the mountains covered in snow

We stumbled across this amazing lake, called Seton Lake, and the water was so incredibly turquoise, it was like being inside a postcard

This train driver has a pretty sweet job, we meet up with this train across the tracks quite a few times on our trip (yea we were being slow tourists) and he gets to see some pretty amazing views during his day at work

We were lucky to see some wild life on our way, which I was pleased about because for the majority of our trip we didn't see much. We were actually laughing not long before seeing these guys that the 'beware of deer' symbol may be the only deer we would see all weekend

From Lytton down to Hope we followed the Fraser Canyon, which was huge. It was such a change from the snow coming up to the highest point in Lillooet, the Fraser Canyon was much dryer winding with the river and through awesome tunnels like James Bond. It was actually so desert-like we saw tumble weeds

Just before Hope we pulled over and found this lake, actually called Lake of the Woods

Then on the last part of the trip from Hope back to Vancouver it was pretty standard highway, but we did manage to find this goodie