On Iced Out, with Katie Baker: Hockey Meat, the Disaster of Whistler Blackcomb and Next Year in Vancouver
As an ex-pat vancouverite, I have to clarify that actually Whistler and Blackcomb are both mountains (there are two peaks) AND the name of the brand. Whistler-Blackcomb so named because the town is kind of at the base of/in between both mountains. Minor pedantic detail!
Posted on December 1, 2009 at 11:25 am
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On Iced Out, with Katie Baker: Hockey Meat, the Disaster of Whistler Blackcomb and Next Year in Vancouver
totally - the whole place was always gave one the sense of being just slapped together without much thought to safety, or fun, just maximum profit. And that was before whistler (and also vancouver!) started really glitzing up.
I went to ski school on Blackcomb, as an uncoordinated 6-yr old girl, and spent the day crying because the instruction consisted of being screamed at and insulted by 20 year old australian men whenever you fell over. That same weekend (the weekend my family was going to enjoy skiing, if it killed us), my parents got stuck on a lift for 2 hours and then my baby sister got her hand smashed in a door at what was then the Delta Whistler Hotel and had to get stitches. We never became a family that skiied.