There are a few places in the hood to go snowboarding to - Cypress, Grouse and Seymour mountains and Whistler village. The last place looks like an Alpine village with hotels, shops and restaurants. You don't go there for a day, you'd better stay there for a week. The only obstacle is 120 miles distance from downtown Vancouver.

I like Cypress. It's close, nice, convenient and affordable. It's the second weekend I spend there snowboarding. I ain't made up my mind about buying all the equipment so I just rent it. The whole package of the board, boots, pants, jacket, helmet and day pass costs $149 CAD. Note, no gloves and goggles included. You might wanna buy those two up there for an extra $60 CAD.

The terrain is amazing. There are a few slopes - the bunny slopes, green, blue and black. They are 300, 1200 and 1500 meters long correspondingly. I prefere green slope because. It's safe for me. If you're just a beginner you should start with the bunny and gradually grow up to the black.

There's a bus going from downtown to the Cypress hills and 7 a.m. and 2:30 p.m. on the weekends. Anyway you can learn about this in details on the web site.

I put a few pictures of my recent snowboarding session here. They're taken with my cell phone 'cuz I didn't want to waste my camera so the quality is crappy.