Canada Snowboarding
Does the exciting sport of snowboarding, that unique mixture of snow skiing and
surfing, get your blood to pumping? As you've watched snowboarding events in the
Winter Olympics or the Winter X-Games, have you thought, 'Wow, that looks fun. I
want to try it myself;'? If you don't live in a country that has tons
of snowy mountains to play on, you might want to plan a snowboarding holiday to
the north in Canada, where they know a little something about winter fun.
A great place to start your search for the perfect snowboard vacation
destination in the land of the maple leaf is the Ski and Snowboard Canada Web
site, http://www.skicanada.org/site/, which has a wealth of information covering
Canada's ski resorts in each of the country's provinces, snow reports so you can
determine where the best powder is, and even snowboarding and skiing packages,
many targeted toward beginning snowboarders so you can learn how to enjoy the
sport without endangering your personal safety.
As would be expected in a country whose population eagerly anticipates the first
snowfall of each winter, Canada is peppered with ski and snowboarding resorts
from the Atlantic to the Pacific. Their slopes range from the extremely easy for
beginners to the super challenging for the risk-taker or Olympic-caliber
snowboarder. And to encourage more people to take up the sport, many resorts
offer private lessons, introduction to snowboarding classes and even special
Discover Snowboarding discount packages.
Some of the Canadian resorts that offer Discover Snowboarding and Discover
Skiing packages are Apex Mountain in Penticton, British Columbia; Shames
Mountain in Terrace, B.C.; Canada Olympic Park near Calgary, Alberta; the
Edmonton Ski Club of Edmonton, Alberta; Loch Lomond Ski Area in Thunder Bay,
Ontario; Snow Valley Ski Resort of Barrie, Ontario; Ski Stoneham in Stoneham,
Quebec; and and Ski Chantecler in Sainte-Adele, Quebec.
Canada is so in love with winter sports that it has a National Ski and Snowboard
Week, scheduled for January 13 through January 21, 2007. Special events of
interest to skiers and snowboarders will be hosted by more than 100 ski and
snowboard resorts across the country. There's not a better time to totally
immerse yourself in the edgy, fun snowboard culture than during Canada's
national celebration of the sport.
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