VanAussie Daily

Skiing Mount Seymour

Author: Jared

Note, All images are now clickable… click them to make them bigger and bask in their glory*!

One of the great things about living in Vancouver is that we have three ski mountains on the North Shore. That’s about 20 – 30 minutes drive away. Doing the speed limit. Which nobody in Vancouver seems to do.

When the snow is good, they’re a fantastic spot to get away to for a day on the weekend. You can pick your mountain and your spot, and typically the lines won’t be too bad. For example, we hit up Mount Seymour this weekend as the North Shore mountains had about 1.5m of snow in the week leading up. Yep, that’s right, 150cm. That just about made up for the very average winter they were having to that point. While the lines for the main lift were quite long, there’s a lift over the back called Brockton Chair, and we skied that for most of the day, and very, very rarely had to wait in line.

Yes, the mountains are smaller than, say, Whistler, but Whistler is twice the price, more than two hours away, and a serious day trip. It’s quite fun skiing a small chair too, if it’s going quick enough, as you never cool down on the chair, and you can pick out all sorts of interesting runs on the way back up again.

The snow was great btw

Here’s some happy snaps:

And a quick panorama from the top, just to give you a feel for things – make sure you click it!

*Glory results of individual photos may vary…

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