In February we celebrated our first anniversary with a trip to Whistler. We
spent a week snuggling by the fire, skiing, drinking a lot of champagne, and
generally enjoying ourselves. Okay, we spent a bit of time on work stuff, but if
you've got to work, I can't think of a better place.
In addition to the regular photos, I got some fun panoramas by
stitching together shots from my little point and shoot camera. I'm pretty
impressed with how well the stitching worked. I did a little clean-up in
photoshop, but not much. These shots are larger than the ones I usually post,
but the originals are about 90-inches wide!
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Room with a view |
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Here's the view from our room. You can see the base of Blackcomb and the Fairmont below |
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Snow Bunny |
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Christi at the top of Blackcomb |
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Rock Face |
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This rock face on 7th Heaven is cool |
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Heading back to the condo |
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The view down the slope at the Fairmont |
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No Shell! |
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It was so warm that we didn't even need to wear our shells! |
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On the lift |
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Here we are coming up the 7th Heaven chair |
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Thoughtful Mark |
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While I might look thoughtful in this picture, I'm really just so exhausted that I can't move |
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From our balcony |
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Looking down at the village from our balcony |
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Our Condo |
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Our room is the second floor between the floors with the lights on, and consists of the rock portion and the balcony on the right |
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Snow Cat |
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At night the snow cats head out to groom the slopes |
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Morning comes to the slopes |
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A shot our of our window before we head out to go skiing |
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Looking up |
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Looking up from the base of Blackcomb. You can see our room right above the head of the snowboarder in the foreground |
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Cold Water |
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A close up of the river that runs between the upper and lower village |
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On Whistler Summit |
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One of the days we went up to the summit of Whistler mountain just to do some site seeing |
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Ski Limo |
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They offer a service called Ski Limo where you're sitting on a sled and a driver controls it from behind. A cool opportunity for the non-skiier |
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Olympic Symbol |
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Christi at the summit of Whistler by the 2010 olympic mascot |
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Conveyer belt |
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We saw this from the gondola on the way down. It's a kids ski school with a nifty little conveyer belt instead of a lift or rope tow |
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Looking down |
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Looking down from the gondola at the Fairmont and our condo right above it. They're putting in a peak to peak condo between whistler and blackcomb that will open next december |
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Quack Quack |
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Recovering from collagen lip treatments during a vacation in whistler |
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Steamy path |
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Heading out of our condo with the hot tubs throwing up steam |
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The Aspens |
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A picture up the hill looking at our condo |
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The Bridge |
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I love this little covered bridge between the upper and lower village |
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The River |
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A night shot of the river that the bridge goes over |
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A description of a Canadian |
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This shirt cracked me up |
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Pretty lights |
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I love how the village lights up at night |
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Beautiful morning |
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I love how the sky just pops in this morning shot |
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On the bridge |
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A passer by took this shot of me and Christi on the bridge |
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She's so mean! |
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Okay, I was being a bit of a pain when I took this picture |
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Big smile |
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But she forgave me! |
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Breakfast outdoors |
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It was so warm out we were able to have breakfast in an outdoor seating area even without heaters! |
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Blackcomb base |
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Looking at the lift from the Blackcomb base |
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Movement |
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A long exposure of the bridge with people walking |
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Inside the bridge |
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The light was so warm |
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Looking down the river |
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Looking down the river from the bridge |
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Heading upstairs |
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Heading up the stairs from the lower village to the upper village |
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Blackcomb base at night |
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The moon was huge that night. The following night there was a cool lunar eclipse |
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The Red Bear |
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Me in my red bear hat |
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Crows |
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This group of crows were taking a bath in the river and then flew off |
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Chrome Dome |
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I decided my hair was a bit of a losing battle, so I shaved it while we were up there |
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Christi wins the gold! |
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Christi receiving her gold medal a little early for the 2010 olympics |
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Showing my pride |
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Celebrating my big olympic win |
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Bobsledding |
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Practicing for my 2010 Olympic run |
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Sledding |
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We decided to sled from our condo down to the restaurant at the base. It turns out it's incredibly hard to stop. I nearly ran down two women walking down the hill |
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My sled |
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Our room had a couple sleds that we could use |
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