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Love skiing, but want the island lifestyle too ? you can have both.

On Gabriola Island we’re fortunate to have regular ferry access to downtown Nanaimo, with sailings that run almost every hour from 5:30am to 11:05 pm.  That gives you enough time to plan easy day trips from the island.  Skiing is one of my favourite ways to spend a day with the kids during the winter months.  Mount Washington is approx. a 1.5 hr drive from Nanaimo, so if you line it up with the ferry, you can easily be on the mountain before it opens.

Mount Washington is a great ski hill, it has lots of runs with different levels of difficulty, an assortment of accommodations to choose from, coffee shop and bar, night skiing, tubing, and snow showing.  There are times when you can find discounts for your lift tickets, coming up are the 50% off week between Jan 12-16th 2015 and a 50% off lift ticket on Family Day, Feb. 9 2015.  If you have a child in Grade 4 or 5, you could get a snow pass from the Canadian Ski Council that gives your child 3 free passes at most mountains for only $29.95.

We’ve recently enjoyed some time on the ski hill and almost managed to tire out these kids !

Submitted by: Tina Lynch