Discover Canadian Rocky Mountain Ski Holiday Resorts.Rocky Mountain ski resorts are amongst the best in the world. Whistler in British Columbia will be staging the 2010 winter Olympic Games. This is a favourite location for a Rockie Mountain ski vacation. The Banff ski resort area is on the eastern side of the Rockies in Alberta. This picturesque town with a population of about 7500 is the highest town in Canada. The grandest Hotel to stay in here is the magnificent Banff is about a one and a half hour drive from Calgary. The village of Lake Louise and the ski area, in Banff national park, is about a thirty-minute drive beyond Banff. About an hour and a half beyond Banff, on the Trans Canada highway is the town of Golden. This is the Kicking Horse Pass area featuring one of the most spectacular roads in the Canadian Rockies. You will find a great variety of winter outdoor activities for the family here. The activities include cross-country skiing, snowshoeing, snowmobiling, telemark skiing, ice climbing and tubing. Nearly two hundred miles north of Banff is Jasper. Jasper can reached from Banff via the Ice fields Parkway, which traverses through the Columbia Ice fields. The scenery is spectacular. Highway 16 from Edmonton, the Yellowhead Trail, is a terrific four-lane highway that, will take you to Jasper in about four hours. I have only mentioned the most well known and popular Canadian Rocky mountain ski resorts. There are many more in this vast beautiful mountain range.
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