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Article: Callaghan Country Lodge.(Inn Of The Month)
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- October 1, 2003
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FOR MOST SKIERS, A TRUE WILDERNESS EXPERIENCE--WHERE NATURE is in charge and motorized conveniences don't exist--is as rare as a traffic-free drive to the slopes. But 22 easy miles from the bustle of Whistler/Blackcomb, amid a rolling 8,610-acre preserve of old-growth forest, glacier-capped peaks and serious powder, Callahan Country Lodge stands serenely alone.
Guests can access the lodge only by snowmobile (or, in the case of serious fitness buffs, on cross-country skis. The 14-mile, 2,700-vertical-foot journeywinds steadily uphill through the Lower Callaghan Valley, past an old mine and a pounding waterfall, through forests of western hemlock and yellow cedar ...