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THE MT.WASHINGTON YOUR GUIDE TO WHAT'S UP ON MOUNT WASHINGTON Volume 12, #2 • Summer 2002 A Mountain of The Hawk is Soaring to Completion! Real Estate Activity! Work is well underway on the new Rick Gibson of Royal LePage Hawk chairlift that will open up in the Comox Valley is new intermediate terrain at breathing a sigh of relief as Mount Washington. the Mount Washington Real The lift line was cut last year and the bulk Estate market takes off for of the runs were done then, too, said Dave the first time in four years. Hampshire, Public Relations Director at the “It’s great that this is happening,” says alpine resort. Rick, who is one of Mount Washington’s “The lift line was cut last year because we staunchest supporters. “It proves that knew we wanted to put (the new chair) in, Mount Washington is on the right track we knew we wanted to do it ‘today’.” with their development plans.” He adds The six-seat, high-speed Hawk replaces that he has seen more real estate sales the old Red Chair, which was a slower, activity in the past year than in the previous three-seat lift. The cables for the Red Chair four years combined. “I was getting wor- were dismantled in May, and the Swiss ried,” he laughs, “Since the Mount company that is putting in the lift was in Washington market makes up a big chunk town in late June to assemble both the up- of my business, I’m sure you can under- load and off-load stations at each end of stand that there is only so long a guy can the lift. make a living in a silent market.” “It will be pretty exciting when the heli- In the past year sales have tripled while copters come in to put in the towers,” most prices are clinging to lower levels. Hampshire added. The new Hawk will For now. Rick is quick to point out that open up 200 more acres of skiable terrain. these great buys will not last forever. The resort decided to go with a six-pack “In the past few weeks I’ve had three for convenience’s sake. “The area the Red The Hawk will be able to carry riders 6 at a time... 2400 riders/hour! sellers actually raise their prices.” And he’s serviced was primarily an intermediate quick to add, “If you’re looking for an area. What we had was a lift that was As for the old Red Chair, Hampshire said has outlived its usefulness at Mount investment property up on the mountain, beyond handling the capacity of people there are plans to sell it — just like the Blue Washington. my suggestion is that you act quickly.” that wanted to get on that lift.” There was Chair was sold to Mt. Baldy when that lift “We couldn’t make it go any faster and Continued on Page 21 also a bottleneck at the top of the lift, as was replaced by the high-speed Eagle still safely put people on it. With the Hawk people disembarked the Red Chair, Express. being high-speed, it’s going to be very easy Hampshire said. “It’s still a great lift. There’s a lot of life left to get on, and safer, too,” he said. Rick Gibson “We looked at a quad that would have in it,” Hampshire said. But the Red Chair www.rickgibson.ca worked quite well, but looking at doubling the amount of people on that chair just 250-334-3124 (24 hours) made sense.” THE INSIDE SCOOP The Hawk will be 10 per cent longer P. 2 • Hiking & Biking Expansion P. 9 • Exclusive! Forbidden Plateau than the Eagle Express, which means it • Winter 2001/02 Wrap Up Map & Trail Guide will be the longest chairlift on Mount P. 3 • New Hiking & Biking trail Map P. 11 • Exclusive! Buttle Lake Washington. P. 4 • Do Sasquatches Exist? Map & Trail Guide The Hawk will be operational in time for P. 5 • Geological History P. 13 • Exclusive! Mount Washington opening day, Hampshire said. “It will actu- Carved in Stone Accommodation Guide ally be running sometime in the fall, to test P. 6 • Stay & Play in the Comox Valley P. 22 • Marmot Breeding Centre Update it out.” P. 8 • Mount Washington Awards P. 23 • PowerSmart Pays Off P. 25 • Mt.Washington Real Estate Guide Published for your convenience by Rick Gibson & Julia Perrie of Royal LePage in the Comox Valley www.rickgibson.ca If you are looking for more information, wish to advertise, or want to submit information for future issues please contact us at (250) 334-3124. Page 2 THE MOUNT WASHINGTON MARMOT • SUMMER 2002 Hiking and Biking Trails expand Winter 2001/20002 Best Season at Mount Washington Resort Ever at Mount Washington The trails are made for walk- Mount Washington has added to the west. ing at Mount Washington Hampshire said media interest this year this summer. The Alpine has been great, and has contributed to peo- ple finding out about Mount Washington. Resort has been busy putting Comments they’ve been receiving from out in a one-kilometre bark of town visitors are “Wow, you guys are mulch trail from Raven right on the edge of something great,” he Lodge to the trailhead into said. “Especially people who saw Whistler in their early days, they’re saying we’re the Strathcona Park’s Paradise Whistler of old - right before their boom. Meadows. “We’ve come a long way from the “We want people to be able to access $12.00 lift ticket in 1979. But we have a lot (the trailhead) without necessarily walking more services and terrain, too.” on the road," says Mountain Management. At less than $50.00, Mount Washington’s The trail connecting the Nordic Lodge to lift tickets are still a great deal compared to the trailhead is just one phase of Whistler ($70.00), he said. Mount Washington’s walking trail system, A number of factors contributed to Mount Sharpe explains. Washington’s successful year. “The snow "We have identified a walking trail from was so accommodating,” said Hampshire the top of the mountain, two different who, during the winter season, is known as routes to take you from the top of the Eagle Hikers and bikers are finding more accessible terrain each summer at Mount Washington. the “Mount Washington Snow Boy.” “We Express all the way back down," they said. received a lot of that very fine powder ver- One trail is more difficult and goes 1,700 The new trail will connect the Alpine The 2001-02 winter season sus the heavy stuff, as usual.” feet almost straight down the mountain- Lodge to the bottom of the Hawk, then was the most successful that That fine powder actually delayed the side. The other is more leisurely and mean- continue on to the Raven. Mount Washington Alpine season opener by a week because the snow ders along the downhill slope for 2.5 kilo- Mount Washington has also upgraded that was falling in November was drifting metres. another trail close to the main lodge. It’s a Resort has experienced in its in the wind. “We had these 300 centimetre Another walking trail that many people simple, one-kilometre loop that anyone 23 year existence. deep drifts,” Hampshire said. It took awhile aren’t aware of is Discovery Road, which is can walk. The trail is wooded and comes for the snow to fall in sufficient quantity for The Resort finished the season with better known as a bike trail. The three-kilo- out on a couple of view points. Formerly opening day. 420,000 visitors - a record. “We’re now on metre-long loop is accessed from the called Penny Lane, this revamped trail has Hampshire credited part of last season’s our way to being a half-million-a-season Alpine Lodge; it traverses through the O- been given a new name: Memory Lane. success on the new Inland Island Highway, resort,” said Dave Hampshire, the Resort’s Zone tubing park and keeps going west for The new moniker is quite appropriate. which is now open from Victoria straight to Director of Public Relations. And some 1.5 kms, then returns 1.5 kms. The short hiking trail has been renamed in Campbell River. The highway has made the people are likening Mount Washington to Next year a two kilometre long trail con- honor of those who truly loved Mount drive so much easier for visitors coming where Whistler was before its development necting the Alpine Lodge to the Raven Washington. "We have had a lot of people from Victoria, that even though it’s only cut boom. Lodge will be laid. who wanted to do something (to remem- off 20-30 minutes, they arrive much more Adding to the Resort’s success was the Part of the balancing act in developing ber) those who truly loved coming to the rested. And the turn-off to Mount opening of Raven Lodge, the mountain’s such a trail is the fact that the new Hawk mountain. Washington is just 18 minutes from the premiere nordic ski lodge that sits at the Chairlift is being constructed right in the Continued on page 21 Jubilee Parkway in Campbell River. edge of Strathcona Park - and the new terrain middle of where the trail would go. Continued on Page 21 Introducing the All-New Forester. THE 2003 SUBARU FORESTER Outside it has a sleek new body style. Inside it has the Its beauty is more than metal deep.
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