For Immediate Release: "Inspired by Olympics to own part of BC skiing? Luxurious heli-ski facility in Cariboo for sale."
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Can I interest you in a heli-ski facility, Shaun?
- February 25, 2010 6:27 PM |
- By Erin Valois
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By Brian Hutchinson, National Post
VANCOUVER -- For Immediate Release: "Inspired by Olympics to own part of BC skiing? Luxurious heli-ski facility in Cariboo for sale."
Asking: $2.8-million. Which is chump change for Olympic gold medal winning snowboarders who have mega-lucrative sponsorship deals and video games designed for them and who train on secret, private half pipes in, oh, I don't know, Colorado? Yeah. Okay. For dudes like you, Shaun White.
Location: Silvertip Lodge is in, like, nowhere, on the east end of Quesnel Lake, in the Cariboo Mountain range. That's 600 kilometres northeast of Vancouver, in case you were wondering, Shaun.
Accessibility: Air only. But there's a private gravel airstrip beside the lodge. It's included in the low, low price. Could also be used for racing dirt bikes in the summer. Or racing naked. Whatever. We did say it's remote, right?
Features: One 7,000 square foot, eight bedroom lodge with bitchin' bar and lounge, plus a separate spa building for Shaun's hot-tub parties. And guest cottages for Shaun's BFFs. Oh yeah, there's a heli-skiing tenure (we think that means, like, lease) that covers 1,400 square kilometres of mind blowing terrain, and 125 ski runs. Lots of room for secret halfpipes too, and radical igloo hideaways (for when the paparazzi find out about the lodge and come looking for you).
Average annual snowfall: 18 metres. Shaun-dude, that's like 40 feet. Way, way more than Cypress Bowl. Let's talk.
Photo: Cascadia Pacific Realty Ltd.
About the Author
- Bruce Arthur Bruce Arthur is the National Post's national sports columnist. A Vancouver native, he has been with the Post since 2001, and a columnist since 2005. He is covering his second Olympics, after the 2008 Games in Beijing. He expects these Games to be slightly less propagandistic, and for China to win slightly fewer medals.
- Joe O'Connor Joe O'Connor is a roving sports feature writer with an open-ended beat. He joined the National Post in 2002, and has spent the past seven years bouncing from sport to sport, offering fresh perspectives and delivering unique stories wherever he goes. Whether it has been getting Don Cherry to open up about his love life; George Chuvalo to talk about heartbreaking loss; or racing down the side of a mountain with former Crazy Canuck, Dave Irwin, the veteran Postie chases a story wherever it leads. Before joining the newspaper he was a two-time silver medalist at the National Magazine Awards. Vancouver will be his first Olympics.
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