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In my last horseshoe article found here,

I brought you the summer fun of horseshoe valley resort, in the shining light of the 2010 winter games I’ll give you a taste of the Canadian winter in this part 2 resort review.

(Horshoe Valley resort from the top of the hills)

As with the my personal experience with this resort over the past 4 years, everytime I go there I always find something new, something fun, something exciting, and most importantly, something relaxing after a long day.

This year was diffrent, much diffrent, every morning when we hit the slopes the pride of Canada came out in the form of apparel, Canadian gloves, hats, jackets, everything!

This was all brought forth by something that sat in my mind the entire time there which was the Vancouver 2010 Olympics, openly celebrated by Horseshow Valley Resort in it’s winter activities and openly displayed in the restraunts.

There was not a place I could turn and not see a Canadian flag, showing the true pride even in the middle of the hills of Ontario of this great country.

The start of my adventure was of course, skiing! This year dragging along 15 pounds of camera gear to the slopes to give you, our readers the best possible example of this resort, or well the next best thing to being there!

My first ride up ski lift 3 brought my attention to the half pipe, a source for thrill, skill and snowy crashes, the first thing I always notice when going around what is usualy listed as black siamond hills (Highest Skill Rating for the hill) is just how young some of the people are that go down these. Ranging from the age of 5 up to mid 50′s, every seemed to be able to enjoy themselves on even the hardest hills.

(One of the many skilled skiiers catching air on the half pipe)

Making my way down the hill I met up with the tail end of the adventure park, a hill filled with ramps, stairs, railings and other thrills for the most advanced adventure seekers. As I was not able to go down this hill myself I stayed at the trail end with my trusty zoom lense to give you a few good action shots.

(A snowboarder riding one of the railings at the Asventure Park hill)

(Another snowboarder catching air off one of the ramps, my favorite photo from this trip)

As with the many thrill seeking hills, there are alot of hill dedicated to family skiing, hills that you can stick together as you go down, or go on your own and enjoy the amazing scenery around the resort.

(Amazing scenery seen from the top of the hill “Donkey Serenade”)

New to skiing or snow boarding? No need to worry, the resort offers many schooling sessions for all ages and all diffrent skill sets.

(One of the many schools getting ready to go down the hills)

The resort offers so much more besides snowboarding and skiing you can also hit THunder Valley for snowtubing fun, rent a snow mobile and tread snow on the many back trails, go for a horse drawn carrage ride, hike the many wooded areas, enjoy a hot chocolate by the wood burning fire in the lobby, or just enjoy a relaxing time with your family beside the pool or in the spa.

As with alot of my articles, I am going to leave you with a gallery of my adventures in photos!

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