Well, I'm here! And it's raining. Interestingly enough, I've never been here a day when it wasn't raining. On my scouting trip in mid-September I was here for three days, and it rained steadily from the moment I arrived until the moment I left.
Whistler is prepping for the 2010 Winter games, and you can't spend more than 5 minutes in Vancouver, Whistler, or anywhere in between without being reminded of it Most notable is the ambitious task of widening Hwy 99 (the Sea to Sky Highway which runs between Vancouver and Whistler) from a two-lane to a four-lane road. It is one of the most daunting road construction tasks I've seen. The road is built into a very steep hillside, which means that adding two lanes forces road crews to a) dynamite huge sections of hill resulting in 5 story cross-sections of the mountain b) build massive retaining walls on the downhill side of the road or c) both. At any rate, the entire section of interstate is under construction. Indeed, the road is closed tonight from 10 pm to 2 am, then again from 3 am to 5am.
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Whistler is prepping for the 2010 Winter games, and you can't spend more than 5 minutes in Vancouver, Whistler, or anywhere in between without being reminded of it Most notable is the ambitious task of widening Hwy 99 (the Sea to Sky Highway which runs between Vancouver and Whistler) from a two-lane to a four-lane road. It is one of the most daunting road construction tasks I've seen. The road is built into a very steep hillside, which means that adding two lanes forces road crews to a) dynamite huge sections of hill resulting in 5 story cross-sections of the mountain b) build massive retaining walls on the downhill side of the road or c) both. At any rate, the entire section of interstate is under construction. Indeed, the road is closed tonight from 10 pm to 2 am, then again from 3 am to 5am.
Thanks for tuning in!
1 comment:
if you run into Whistler's Mother... well... um... keep running. :)
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