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Whistler Blackcomb ski resort hotel accommodation and map — Canada

You have read the articles in the magazines, seen glimpses in the ski and snowboard movies, heard all about it from your friends. Now it is your turn to experience the magic of Whistler. Get ready for the vacation of a lifetime! Whistler is a friendly ski town located in British Columbia, Canada and is home to almost 10,000 residents. One of the many things that makes Whistler so special is two unbelievable mountains — Whistler and Blackcomb. Side by side, they represent over 8,000acres of skiable terrain, rising a mile above the valley of Whistler. Whistler and Blackcomb Mountains offer unforgettable skiing, snowboarding, and unlimited winter and summer activities. Find something for everyone year round.

Iglu Ski sell package holidays (travel and/or accommodation) to this resort. Click here to view prices.

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Whistler Blackcomb ski resort opens tube park and for summer skiing

Whistler Blackcomb’s Horstman Glacier has re-opened to allow summer skiing and riding until Sunday, July 25th. For the first time ever, Whistler Blackcomb will also be opening a tube park in the alpine on Whistler Mountain as snow allows. In addition the resort has announced that following its record breaking snowfall this winter, there is still more than 50 inches in some places making snowshoeing possible.

Read more on… Whistler opens tube park

With another 20cm (eight inches) of snow falling on Whistler in the past few days, the resort’s snowfall tally since it opened for the season last autumn has passed 1,430 centimetres or 47 feet, surpassing the 2006/07 record of 1,416 centimetres or 46 feet, making this season officially the second snowiest on record at the famous Canadian resort.

Read more on… Second snowiest season ever recorded at Whistler

Winter plans to capitalise on worldwide publicity from the Olympic Games, which they estimate were viewed by more than half the world’s population, by opening up several of their Olympic competition venues to the paying public next winter. The Whistler Sliding Centre which hosted bobsleigh, luge and skeleton events will open a public ride program next season for visitors who want to try bobsleigh and skeleton on the Olympic track.

Read more on… Whistler to open Olympic venues to public next winter

With two weeks to go to the start of the 2010 Winter Olympics and the backdrop of a record snowfall as well as the blessing of international ski officials, the finishing touches are being applied over the next 16 days to the Olympic alpine ski racing courses at Whistler Blackcomb.

Read more on… Whistler is ready for the Olympics

Whistler Blackcomb, the Canadian ski resort that will host some of the Winter Olympic Games next month, could be sold off in a struggle between Wall Street bankers and a private equity firm over the renegotiation of hundreds of millions of dollars in loans. Lenders to Fortress Investment Group, a leveraged buyout group, have posted notices of foreclosure in several North American newspapers, announcing a public auction of the assets of Intrawest, the Whistler Blackcomb resort operator.

Read more on… Whistler Blackcomb Olympic ski resort up for sale