Brittany’s mum was staying with her while on holiday but as soon as she found out I was coming to Whistler kindly offered me a couch to sleep on. We went and stood with the crowd really close to him and danced, sung and had a great evening. Jason Mraz is well known for “I’m yours” but I had heard his music before he became big but had never seen him live so was very excited. His presence, energy and sexy looks made it a great show, he’s just so grounded and earthy seems like a really great guy.
Saturday I was going to meeting up with Paul and Sandra to hike the singing pass trail to Flute summit and Whistler Mountain 22km over 7 hours. We also had another trek bc member join us Claire which made our group of 4. The weather was fantastic and before we were even on the official trail we were watching quite close by a mother and her cub happily eating in the nearby bushes. This is Whistler after all!
The views were just stunning, mountains and snow as far as the eye could see. With great company and banter we were all really enjoying ourselves, though did have to make sure we made the last gondola back down at 4pm or so we thought. At the top of Flute summit 2012m we got to the edge and had amazing views down to Cheakamous lake the first time I’d seen it, and enjoyed looking at the black tusk for most of the day.
The trail starts in the forest and works its way slowly up the backside and round the mountains, we had to cross 2 streams rushing with water so much so that both bridges had been washed away. Thankfully Paul was able to offer us a hand across though poor Sandra still ended up with wet feet. We hit the snow fairly high up and it was patchy but still lots of it, there were no other tracks to follow, it appeared we were the first up here in quite a while. Thankfully we were still able to pick up the track and climbed high and then ran on the snow on the downhill parts which saved time and was a lot of fun.
We got to a point where all markings stopped and no tracks and weren’t entirely sure which way to go but amazingly we were on the ski runs I’d been skiing all winter so even if it wasn’t the normal way I knew how we could get to where we needed to be. So we hiked up the snow and popped out to lots of people. The mountain staff had cleared a roadway (previous ski track) to allow sightseers to come up and walk from the peak back to the roundhouse. It was amazing to see the huge amount of snow pile on the side showing just how deep the snow level still was. I’m guessing they are going to have a great base to start off the winter season this year!
It was a short walk back to the gondola; we got the peak to peak across for some novelty and then the chair ride back down to the village. Most of us had been reapplying sunscreen all day except for what ever reason we all left our legs bare and this proved a BAD mistake. Both Sandra and Claire’s legs were RED from sunburn, mine fairly pink too and unfortunately with their fair skin they both had severe skin burn a bit of a downer to a fabulous day, but tough lessons learned. Always apply sunscreen and it’s even more important when on the snow due to the reflection.
I’ve been lucky and just got a wicked hiking boot tan line to work on, Sandra is still recovering from her sunburn but thankfully is getting better. Thanks to everyone for a fantastic time enjoying what Whistler has to offer in the summer :-)
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