good morning everybody welcome back to the channel today we are in whistler we're going
skiing today we're pretty pumped about it yeah woke up bright and early this morning
made some coffee gonna take Bailey for a quick stroll before we hit the slopes and yeah it
should be a good day David was so excited about seeing this morning but he was up at
6 30 so yeah
last night we snuck into a hot tub somewhere in the whistler village
sometimes you just gotta do things oh you gotta have a hot tub on the mountain yeah
and unfortunately we don't tow one behind the van so wouldn't that be nice though for
those of you who don't know us i'm David i'm Cayleigh and we run a travel and adventure
blog called made to explore we are passionate about activities that get you outside and
off the beaten path and we've got a ton of van content especially coming up so let's
get going welcome to van life in whistler
so we just finished our first run it's a beautiful day out just bright blue bird not a lot of
fresh snow but that's okay because it's gorgeous out i think it's supposed to get to like seven
degrees yeah it's so pretty and we're still learning to ski this is our first skiing
so blue groomers are great for us right now you're not gonna see any extreme skiing today
most likely but uh we will be enjoying ourselves
you okay?
yeah i whacked my head pretty good
ready to rock
so we made it up to the ice cave on blackcomb which is pretty sick yeah we um didn't say
anything about this earlier because we weren't sure if it was going to happen or what the
deal was but if you get a chance to come here it's free you can access this ice cave from
ski hill and it is yeah sweet so it's at the top it's called showcase t-bar and it opens
at 9 30 so i would try and get to the t-bar by 9 30 to avoid the crowds but it is pretty
easy to get to you come down blackcomb glacier is the run it's a blue run so it's not too
too difficult but it can get busy at the top the views from above are also absolutely beautiful
pretty insane yeah so it's just a little ways down the run on the right side you'll probably
see a bunch of people it goes down into a bit of a dip and then the ice cave is off
to the right
just got back to the van we are both starving and very thirsty yeah so hungry so thirsty
it's like 1 15.
we had a couple of bites of leftover macaroni and cheese for breakfast not enough didn't
really plan well for the day um we were just gonna have some soup and some veggies and
we are adding some bagels with melted cheese in the air fryer because we have it and why
not all right lunch tour soup not even sure what kind it's like a ginger um yam it smells
pretty good creamy ginger something a salad from last night veggie dip and then bagels
with two different types of cheese bacon and salsa on top are we gonna be going out skiing
i mean we're making ourselves go out skiing do we really want to go out skiing after all
this food well we'll see one for me one for you
i mean it's hard she's really cute reward for guarding the van exactly
so how much on a scale of one to ten do you feel like ten skiing ten yep very good what
do you feel like i'm feeling about a 3 out of 10 right now but i'm hoping that changes
i want to go back there i'd kind of like to just make a bed with bailey
all right so end of the day my personal longest ski day ever we got off the hill at about
4 15.
and dave and i got in a little mini fight on the way down mostly it was in my head i
was fighting with him in my head the whole way down because he took me on moguls for
the last run goal for the run was not to die we did it
sorry
we could cut that out
blue runs shouldn't have moguls and also Cayleigh was going backwards down the hill which is
unadvisable and not my fault was not my best run it was not good at all but other than
that the day was great the ice cave was so cool um and the peak to peak gondola that
goes from whistler to blackcomb is absolutely incredible so we had a full really fun day
on the hill today and now we're gonna go walk around and see if we can find a dog friendly
patio have a couple drinks and bring this little one along because we are big partiers
but we're gonna show you guys what's there anyway because it is a hop in town with some
pretty good nightlife and delicious restaurants yes a good apres ski it is all about the apres
ski in whistler
it's a pretty cute skating rink here i'm getting cold so we got back to the van after having
a drink and some nachos in whistler um and kind of checking out the town we went to the
public pool because we felt like we need to shower and also we like to use their hot tubs
after skiing so we had a hot tub and a sauna and a shower and now we're in squamish yes
the community center in whistler is actually really nice they also have like a gym and
a spin room if you're into that and like nine dollar drop in yeah it's really nice and yeah
now we're just outside of squamish and we had a wicked day in whistler and we were bag
tired actually so i think it's 8 p.m and we're gonna like crawl into bed and watch a movie
now so yeah it was an unreal day and we love van life and whistler yes thank you so much
for taking along with us we had a lot of fun we hope that you get to come and try some
of these awesome things here and if you are in a van check out the ioverlander app because
we used that to stay in and around whistler and it came in handy yes don't forget to like
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would love to share more of our adventures with you that's right see you in the next
one see you next week
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