First Canadian Ski Trip - December 2013

You might want to check out rail travel from and between Vancouver and Calgary. The routes are spectacular and can get you to, or very close to several excellent ski resorts like Whistler and Lake Louise. The highways are well maintained. But there are lots of passes, that get heavy snow, and can be hazardous or closed during winter storms.

globalhobo wrote:You might want to check out rail travel from and between Vancouver and Calgary. The routes are spectacular and can get you to, or very close to several excellent ski resorts like Whistler and Lake Louise. The highways are well maintained. But there are lots of passes, that get heavy snow, and can be hazardous or closed during winter storms.

I was in the Rockies in September (admittedly snow less) and we got the train to Jasper before bus to Lake Louise down the spectacular Ice Fields Parkway and then onto Bannf.

We then got the train through the Rockies to Kamloops and down to Vancouver

The scenery is AMAZING and the Canadian trains are clean, efficient, on time - basically everything that UK ones are not