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Register your kids today for Nancy Greene Ski League.
The Sun Peaks Alpine Club will be offering Nancy Greene Ski League programs for skiers aged 5 to 11 years old for the 2010-11 ski season. These programs deliver customised free-skiing and introduce young skiers to alpine ski racing.  The philosophy of the Nancy Greene Ski League is to encourage participation, interaction, and the development of technical skiing skills in an exciting and motivating atmosphere.
For more information visit www.sunpeaksracers.ca
Visit our Sun Peaks page for accommodation options and specials.

Sun Peaks, BC (November 3, 2009) – Epic early-season snowfall at Sun Peaks Resort has moved up opening day to Saturday, November 14, a week ahead of schedule! And as the first resort to open in the BC Interior this winter, Sun Peaks is gearing up for a huge celebration. With the new opening day, it’s all about the number 14. The 2009-2010 Winter season begins 14 minutes early on the Sunburst Chairlift as the lift starts turning at 8:46am on Saturday, November 14. And if you’re lucky…a free or discounted lift ticket may be in the cards!

Epic Snowfall at Sun Peaks Moves Up Opening DaySun Peaks set to open Saturday, November 14
“This is the earliest we have seen conditions like this and so to take advantage of this gift, we are going to move the planned opening day up to November 14,” says Jamie Tattersfield, Mountain Operations Manager at Sun Peaks. “We aim to open as many lifts and runs as possible.” The Sun Peaks Slopes Department has been working diligently to pack all of the fresh snow down, and snow making efforts are continuing to build up the base on OSV, where the Austrian National Ski Team will be training next month. Mountain Operations says the snow making will likely move to the Terrain and Tube Parks in the next couple of weeks. 

The final decision on what lifts and runs will be open will made on Monday, November 9.

The sports director at Sun Peaks (what a tough job that would be!)….tests the powder at Sun Peaks….they have had 40cm in the past couples of days.

Are you looking for a true ski in, ski out village ?  Look no further than Sun Peaks in Canada.  Sun Peaks is a 55 minutes flight from Vancouver.  Sun Peaks offers a European theme village with some of the best ski in, ski out accommodation in Canada. 

Choose the following accommodation for true ski to your door access -
* Delta Sun Peaks Hotel and Residences
* Nancy Greene’s Cahilty Lodge
* Snow Creek Village Condos
* Coast Sundance Hotel

Sun Peaks & Ski Traveller are offering kids 18 & under free skiing all season. 
The conditions are as follows:

• Kids 18 & under ski for free with one adult
• Minimum 5 day lift pass
• Valid all season 2009-2010 (except Holiday Season: 19 Dec 2009 - 02 Jan 2010) 
• Must purchase before 15 November 2009.

For more information: info@skitraveller.co.nz or Toll Free 0800 11 22 99

 Hi Sarah

Vancouver: Fabulous city (as I am sure you know).We stayed at the hostel when we arrived which was a great idea as we got to mix and mingle with loads of other young Kiwis and Aussies (I think we only met a handful of Canadians the whole time we were in Canada). Granville St was interesting and the spare day we had it rained so we geared up and walked to Granville Island which was fantastic. The second time we were in Vancouver we stayed in Gastown which was good to see a different part of downtown (even though it was only 5 blocks away!) Gumboots are a must have (both for fashion and to combat the rain) and the concept of a 20% tip took us a while to get the hang of. The Moose Tour: Our tour guides were Matt Paugh and Sara Wyatt. They were both great, very different people which meant the two trips were a bit different but overall they made it go smoothly. We didn’t get one dump of snow the entire time we were on the ski tour which was extremely frustrating. On the up side it was so warm - about 0 to 5 degrees from Vancouver till we got to Banff which meant we had some great blue bird ski days. Banff was colder - about -10 the first time we were there and -30 the second time we were there (which made for great beer cooling conditions!). Fernie was the coldest skiing we encountered - even the heating tents didn’t help! The temperature gauge said it was only -10 but with the wind chill it felt more like -25.  Fernie was Ian’s favourite ski field and mine was Big White. The ski fields over all were impressive, amazing scenery, great facilities, such wide runs and each place had a great night life. We will have to go back to experience the fields with decent snow!Snow mobiling was great fun (Ian’s favourite activity) and I loved the snow tubing at Silverstar. The hot springs were lovely and perfectly placed to be able to relax. Ice Hockey in Fernie was one of the biggest highlights - AAA League so the boys were pretty violent (there was even blood on the ice at one point).  So overall it was a great trip, saw some amazing sights, got some great photos, met lots of people and drunk a little too much along the way.
Rebecca W. - Auckland

Hi Sarah - have finally made it back to Dunedin & heading off to Wanaka Wednesday.

Just a short note to say thank you for your travel bookings & to let you know every thing went to plan.

Arrived at hotel at Robson St & were upgraded so that was nice.The Gables were very good (as you predicted $500 “bond” on credit card) & once we had worked out where we were, discovered we were close to both Whistler & Blackcomb.Snowed for 2 days when we arrived so had great snow the whole time.Sunpeaks again was very good snow but very very cold - minus 25 & afraid the fingers & toes froze - apparently very unusual for that time of year.

So again thank you for your super efficiency in organizing every thing. 

If you are ever down “south” do contact me - ski mainly Coronet Peak (although based in Wanaka) but intend to do odd days at Cardrona.

Regards

Hilary

Hi Lianne,

1. Whistler Blackcomb, British Columbia
2. Telluride, Colorado
3. Deer Valley, Utah
4. Aspen, Colorado
5. Jackson Hole, Wyoming
6. Sun Valley, Idaho
7. Vail, Colorado
8. Beaver Creek, Colorado
9. Park City, Utah
10. Sun Peaks Resort, British Columbia

Have you skied at the Top 10 yet?
If not give us a call, we can get you there in 2009 !