Photos

A few pictures of our winter home up at Mt.Washington on Vancouver Island...

Pauls truck in front of the Chalet.
Its been snowing here steadily making shoveling a losing battle... We got about 20cm overnight when this photo was taken and since then we have had equal or more amounts of snow (last night we got 26cm). There is now a base of 230cm on the hill, the snow banks around the lodge are taller then I am and the forecast is call for much, much more in the next few days!

At least we have a really nice snowcat driver that comes and plows our driveway for us (when there are no cars in the way)! The snowcats seem to run 24hrs clearing roads and grooming the hill. Mt. Washington gets an average annual snowfall of 1050cm (the record was in 98/99 when they got 1848cm - it was an La Nina year like this year!).

The view off of the Elkhorn balcony.

Although the first picture makes the chalet seem pretty small it rambles down the hill for 5 floors (and 2 lofts) and we can sleep 24 people between the two suites! Each suite comes with a full kitchen, a sauna (one suite has a hot tub as well), and gas fireplace.

The summit of Mt.Washington is 1588m and our Chalet is at the base of the Green Chair and the Hawk Chair at about 1100m. There is 1600 skiable acres, with over 60 runs and glade skiing. Plus 55km of total cross country skiing trails.