Paul Dante

Review of Cypress Mountain

Fun mountain close to Vancouver, so easy to make a...

Fun mountain close to Vancouver, so easy to make an afternoon or evening ski run. The lifts seemed reasonably fast, and the runs were fun. Don't expect Whistler, this is lower elevation and much smaller. The one gripe I have is the mess the parking lot can be. Was there with 5-10cm of fresh snow (lots of wind, so depth varied) and the was a layer of ice under that. So many stuck cars! Before you comment, yes, cars with good snow tires were stuck. It wasn't a high centering problem, it was an ice problem. The mountain needs to do something to either keep ice from forming, quickly remove it once it is formed, or help people out in the lot. In the end, people helped people, but lots of time was wasted both by people needing to get pushing help to get moving and by people waiting for cars stuck in the way to get moved. Just be careful in the lot.