- Official Cypress Mountain Resort website ($320 for unlimited cross country skiing 2026-27, it was $220 last year. I went 26 times so it’s super cheap if you can afford the gas and vehicle to get up there which is problematic for lots folks). Super lucky and thankful I can cross country ski!
- Whistler Olympic park is probably the best place to learn close to Vancouver; it’s 11 km from Whistler village. Unlike Cypress, you can avoid the hills. There are hills everywhere at Cypress befitting its history as a ski jump and downhill skiing resort starting in the 1920s and 30s and 40s.
- Cypress Park history from Friends of Cypress Provincial Park society
- Either in June of 2000 or 1999, Cypress downhill was open due to record snowfall according to Reddit
- 1 minute video of Roland’s last run down upper lower powerline, Cypress Mountain, everybody’s nemesis since Popfly was closed.
- From Cypress Mountain Resort’s website:
- 1934:”The first Ski Jump was built on Hollyburn Ridge on the North Shore of West Lake. This was a major venue for practice and competition.” <– It’s gone now. There are a few traces of the ski jump left.
- 1948: “First rope tow: Norm Deacon installed a rope tow on the ‘Popfly’ across First Lake from Hollyburn Lodge in 1948. In the fall, night skiing starts on Saturdays on Paradise, the Westlake Lodge beginners’ hill.” <— Popfly is now an “easy”-ish 🙂 cross country ski run which was closed on April 12, 2026 due to lack of snow thanks to climate change.
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