WHISTLER, BC Sea to Sky Highway August 17-18, 2013

We decided to take Highway 99 north to Whistler since we'd both heard so much about it over the years...just had to see what was there. Oh, what a fantastic drive up the coast, so scenic and beautiful, even with the gray skies. We found a great campground, Whistler RV Park, about 10 km south of town. Up a really steep hill to the park but a wonderful view of the mountains.

We got checked in and learned that there was a shuttle into the village leaving in 15 min so we walked Fossie and got down to the office for our ride.

Lots of traffic, and we'd been seeing so many bikes on cars as we drve up from Horseshoe Bay and once we got to town we saw why...it was the Red Bull Crankworks, competition for trick mountain bike riding.  WOW! What a surprise!! 

 I know it probably doesn't show well, but there is a rider doing a 360' flip on his bike after coming off a tall ramp!

 The paper said there were 25,000 people in attendance, it sure didn't feel like it.  Everyone was scattered all over the hill and anywhere you could get a decent view.  We watched from several paces.  The riders are judged on their unique style and difficulty of the many jumps they did in a run, there were three runs. It was incredible to be right in the midst of such a big competition, all for free.  These are very skilled riders doing feats that seemed impossible. Before the competition began at 5pm, lots of mountain bikers were coming down the mountain nearby from other trails; all covered with mud. Pretty amazing

 Just before it ended we were standing along a metal railing and these two guys came up and interviewed us for BIKE Magazine. Too funny!

 Oh, and suddenly out of no where during one break,  a group of 40-50 banana-garbed runners came down the track.  I caught two of them later...

 We stayed till the end of the event, then took the shuttle van back to the park about 8 o'clock.

Sunday morning was more of the same...drizzle, gray skies and cool temps. Neither of us felt like getting in the car to drive anywhere so we just stayed home and relaxed.  I did some cooking and PK was reading about how to fix our leaking top on the car. nice to just kick back and do nothing.

Well, kind of nothing, or at least until about 2 in the afternoon.  We drove down the hill and across the highway to Brandywine Falls Provincial Park for a beautiful walk to these falls.  It's pretty amazing to see so much water in all these waterfalls, not quite what Yosemite looks like in August.

We've decided to stay another night here and spend tomorrow on a very scenic road trip along Duffy Lake Road from Whistler to Lillooet. After talking to a couple of other rvers we think we'll just make a day trip and not take the motorhome.