 Poster: A snowHead
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There have been big snow falls in the American North West over the last week, with reports of up to a metre of snow at the top of Lake Louise and more over in Whistler Blackcomb. www.snow-forecast.com is predicting further heavy falls of snow over the next 6 days at Whistler and moderate falls at Lake Louise. ...
Here are some pictures and text posted by intrepid Teton Gravity Researchers from Lake Louise, and there's a whole gallery of pictures from Whistler / Blackcomb here. snowHeads are already on the case here and here.
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Obviously A snowHead isn't a real person
Obviously A snowHead isn't a real person
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Well, the person's real but it's just a made up name, see?
Well, the person's real but it's just a made up name, see?
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alan empty,
"Beaches, ski resorts, mountains, great weather and friendly people ..." or so it says in the Yahoo report. Never been there myself so I'm reliant on 3rd party info. 
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Anyway, snowHeads is much more fun if you do.
Anyway, snowHeads is much more fun if you do.
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I do remember when we landed there a few years ago that there seemed to be a reasonable amount of swimming pools in back gardens. We did wonder about whether it would be a great place to live and my wife checked the weather every day one summer (and various estate agents). Maybe it was a bad summer but it mostly seemed to colder and wetter than London.
I'd love to live there for a year though just to see. It's a beautiful area and I enjoyed the 5 or 6 days we were there.
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BUt go inland a bit and you escape the wet weather - it's warm and sunny enough around the Okanagan to grow grapes and peaches. And there's little enough summer rain that a lot of the area is technically classified as desert! Kelowna, which is the biggest town - and inside an hours drive to 2 good resorts, plus several smaller ones - has 22.3cm of rain and 104cm of snow in an average year, compared to 111.7cm of rain and 54.9cm of snow in Vancouver (source: http://www.penticton.ca/community/quality.asp)
Four true seasons - hotter and drier in summer than here, cold enough for good snow in winter (but not as cold as over in the Rockies), drier snow than the coastal stuff they get at Whistler, fantastic lakes (with beaches), good skiing.... Can you tell I like it?
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Thanks fo that info Okanagan. Interesting - "22.3cm of rain and 104cm of snow in an average year, compared to 111.7cm of rain and 54.9cm of snow in Vancouver". I keep re-reading that because I think I must be reading it incorrectly! Sound's incredible.
I've actually been to Penticton, although only for a day and night whilst driving east. I liked the lake and found a cool second-hand bookstore. The town itself seemed a little...odd. It was a bit like a film where everything was superficially normal but there's lots of weird stuff bubbling away underneath. Or possibly I was tired from the drive 
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