In the summer, street entertainment abounds with musicians, comedians, jugglers and magicians. Also in summer, hiking here starts at your chalet door. There is no resort like Whistler in North America. The most skiable terrain on the continent and the high-altitude fairways are just the beginning. It s not hard to find adventure here.
Local guides take visitors by horseback or foot into the rugged alpine backcountry.
Tucked among the area hills are emerald fishing holes where steelhead and char surface for flies. Elsewhere, rafters take on glacier-fed rivers that boil through canyons strewn with granite boulders. It was deep powder that first made Whistler famous and still draws the likes of H.R.H. Prince Charles and his sons to the glaciers and glades of the Coast Range. But you don t have to strap on skis to get a taste for high altitude superlatives. From the village, snowcoaches ferry guests up to pleasant candle-lit dinner parties high on the slopes.