Sunday, February 14, 2010

In Whistler


We are in Whistler today. We came up last night and bumbled around. Today we took the Gondola to Whistler Mountain and then the Peak-to-Peak to Blackcomb Mountain.
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It was beautiful!
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We are back to Vancouver tomorrow morning - then we watch skating. Then I visit mom for a while.
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It has been really nice so far.
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Yesterday afternoon we watched the 5000 meters in Speed Skating in the Oval. It is a beauitful building.
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The building, and the Broadcast Center, I said they were from fallen trees. It turns out it is the Pine Beatle.
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This is the same bug that is killing trees around Lake Arrowhead. But in the mountain southwest, our trees burn like crazy. Up here they don't burn as much (lots more rain). So the loggers go in an cull the dying trees. They treat them and then use them in these buidlings.
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According to some guy I talked to, they give out permits to log live trees, but there are so many dying ones, they haven't had to give out new permits in two years!
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Ed in the Richmond Oval!