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The Canadian Resort town of Whistler is situated in the southern Pacific Ranges of the Coast Mountains in British Columbia Province. The town is located about 125 kilometres north of Vancouver. The region has been incorporated into the Resort Municipality of Whistler, housing practically 10,000 regular residents with an added rotating "transient" population of workers. These workers are normally from beyond British Columbia, notably from Australia and Europe.

Over two million people go to the town of Whistler annually, primarily for alpine skiing and snowboarding and, in summer, mountain biking at Whistler-Blackcomb. Its pedestrian village has won many design awards and the town of Whistler has been voted among the top destinations within North America by major ski magazines ever since the mid-1990s. In the 2010 Winter Olympics, the town of Whistler hosted most of the Nordic, alpine, skeleton, luge, as well as bobsled events, even if all snowboarding and freestyle skiing events were hosted at Cypress Mountain near Vancouver.

Whistler Blackcomb is a main ski resort situated 125 km north of Vancouver, within British Columbia, Canada. By many measures it is the biggest ski resort within North America; it is 50 percent bigger than its nearest competitor in terms of size, has the greatest uphill lift capacity, and until the year 2009, had the highest vertical skiable distance by a wide margin. Whistler Blackcomb likewise features the Peak 2 Peak Gondola for moving between Whistler and Blackcomb mountains at the top; Peak 2 Peak holds records for the highest and longest unsupported cable car span within the world. With all of this capacity, Whistler Blackcomb is also usually the most-visited ski resort, often besting 2 million tourists each and every year.

The Whistler Valley is formed by the pass between the upper-middle reaches of the Cheakamus and the headwaters of the Green River. It is flanked by glaciated mountains on both sides; the Garibaldi Ranges on the side which contains the ski mountains, and a group of ranges with no collective name but which are part of the larger Pacific Ranges and are essentially fore-ranges of the Pemberton Icefield. Even if there are some other routes through the maze of mountains between the basin of the Lillooet River just east, the Cheakamus-Green divide is the most direct and lowest and naturally was the major trading route of the Lil'wat First Nations and Squamish long before the arrival of Europeans. One Lil'wat legend of the Great Flood says that prior to the deluge, the individuals lived at Green Lake.