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Girls’ Night In
at Chateau
Whistler Resort

CHATEAU Whistler Resort
offers a Girls Night In pack-
age for women interested in a
special getaway with friends
at the recently-opened Spa.

The pampering at the Canadian
Pacitic Hotel begins at check-in
with guests reeciving a welcome-pilt
of spa samples, a bottle of white
wine, a voucher fora half-hour mas-
sage treatment, 2 gilt-certificate for
an in-room movie and popcorn, 2
Kodak pocket camera to capture
special times shared with friends and
a 15% discount in tie CP Store.

For groups of 10 women or

more, the Spa at Chateau Whistler
will put together a seminar of your
choice conducted by one of the
Spa’s consultants on cosmetics, skin
care, hair or astrology.

The Spa at Chateau Whistler

offers over 4,200 square feet of

> See Resort pane 18

.Edmonton sisters Elizabeth
and Olivia Witkowski relax
CP-sty!e while vacationing

with their parents at
Chateau Whisiler Resort.
NEWS photo Cindy Goodman

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‘Andrew McCrevis

Editor andrew@nsnews.com

‘ WHISTLER’S summertime secret is no longer a
secret.

Long, a wintertime ski destination, this decade the mountain
salley village has blossomed like fireweed as the corporate types
running the town realized that to maximize their investment
they necaucd to hear the ring of cash registers all year round.

- Given the incredible backdrop provided by Whistler,
Blackcomb, Wedge, Blick “Tusk and other mountains that ring
the Whistler Valley, it wasn’t wo difficult to imagine tourists

- would warm to the summer setting as much as skiérs did in the
winter.

Time was when finding something to do in Whistler during
the summer was as likely as finding a hotel room at New Year's

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Eve during the peak of ski season.

But in classic trickle-down fashion what is good for Intrawest
shareholders has proven beneticial for the thousands of tourists
who come to play in this alpine wonderland.

Whitewater rafting; ali-terrain vehicle rentals; mountain-bike
descents; helicopter rides; alpine sightsecing tours; fishing; golf
ing; rollerblading; herseback riding; paragliding: the major
hotels are bechives of activity summer mornings as families,
couples and others check out the numerous adventure opportu-
nities available. Small kiosks set up in hotel lobbies and halhways
cater to this crowd.

Walking around the bustling village on a recent morning one
gets the impression the winter season will soon become “down”
time for the popular resort. People are everywhere. And lots of
families smelling like sunbiock.

This summer in particular — with the Canadian peso being
what it is in relation to the yankee buck —- Whistler is crawling

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Jann Arden performs tomorrow
night with Colin James in Whistler.

Win tickets to.
Suminit series

SEVEN of Canada’s most suc-
cessful acts take to the stage
this month at Base II on
Blackcomb Mcuntain for the
Whistler Summit Concert
Series.

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The summer showcase, now in it’s
third vear, opens tomorrow night at 7
p.m. with a double-bill of Jann Arden
and Colin James. Top-selling children’s
performer, Fred Penuer plays Sunday,
Aug. 9 at] p.m.

"Next weekend it's an aweseme
quadruple bill with Chantal Kreviazuk, |
The Philosopher Kings, the Cowboy
Junkies and Toronto's Blue Rodeo all
scheduled to pertorm on Aug. 15 ar i
pm.
Tickets are available at the Whistler
Activity Centre (932-2394) and
Ticketmaster 280-4444. Prices are 2s"
follows: Jann Arden with Colin James
$25 advance, $30 day of show, kids six
~and under are free; Fred Penner $12
advance, $49 for family of four, kids 24 -
months and under free; the Whistler
Summit $30 advance, $35 day of show,
kids six and under are free. All concert
tickers include an alpine sightsceing
pass for the day of the show.
For the names of this week's
Whistler Summit contest winners plus a
chance to win two tickets to the Aug. |
15 performance turn to page 18.

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with free-spending tourists. The deflated Canadian dollar brings
in business from south of the border, and according to Erika
Durlacher, it’s also bringing in Canadians.

“I'm seeing a fot of people from Langley, Mission and other
places we don’t typically get visitors from,” Durlacher said.
Enka and nusband Peter operate the traditional alpine country
inn Durlacher Hof. “Many of them say they usually visit places
like Ia Conner or Seattle in the summer, but with the Canadian
dollar se low they decided to check out Whistler this year.”

Erika adds that mest haven't been to Whistler for some time:
“And they can’t believe the changes that have happened up
here.”

With just eight rooms in their charming inn, and a legendary
authentic Austrian breakfast served cach morning, the
Durlachers are busy four seasons a year (It doesn’t hurt the

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