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Cypress Mountain. The city has 3 close snowboarding and skiing mountains (Grouse, Seymour and Cypress), this is the best, a 20 minute drive from Downtown.
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Cypress Mountain
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We rarely have snow Downtown in Vancouver, the city enjoying a warmer climate than the rest of Canada in the Winter, but December of 2008 was a record year, with 3 foot of snow falling in two weeks.
Christmas Day on English Bay, 2008
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The snow lasted for about 4 weeks, causing all sorts of problems for a city ill prepared to deal with it.
St Paul's hospital at Christmastime
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Robson Street in the Winter. A main thoroughfare and shopping street.
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