There are lots of places you can take your Nordic skis (on the bus to avoid snow driving) and ski for free around Vancouver.

Lower Seymour Conservation Reserve - try the Rice Lake loop after a snowfall - paradise. Catch the 228 from Lonsdale Quay.

Seymour Provincial Park - there are snowshoe and X-country trails for free public use. Public bus service to Deep Cove.

Cypress Mountain - as well as the X-country trails you pay to use ($17 for the day, $13 for floodlit night skiing) there is a snowshoe and X-country trail that takes you up the side of the mountain. Take the Cypress Snobus.

Grouse Mountain - costs you to get up in the gondola to all the activities that are up there (movies, sleigh rides, zoo etc, all included in the price), but once you're there, the X-country skiing and snowshoe trails are free. To save money you could carry your skis up the 'Grouse Grind' and get extra exercise! Public bus service to the gondola.

Squamish - many trails running along the dyke where the eagles roost, and into the backcountry. Take a compass or GPS!

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Take a break from reggae and dancehall for one night and have dinner in this Louisiana-flavoured jazz bar in what used to be a private house, within an old walled garden. It’s a little Bohemian oasis in downtown Kingston, with live music and poetry readings at night, and an antique vinyl collection all over the walls.

21 Braemar Avenue, Kingston
Tel: 1 876 978 6091
www.redbonesbluescafe.com

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Cypress is a short bus ride away, where you can night ski and cross country night ski too. Be sure to eat at the ski lodge (home made soup and bread made on their wood burning stove).

www.britishcolumbia.com/Ski/resorts/?id=3

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Concerts by University of British Columbia School of Music at The Chan Centre.
Check out www.chancentre.com.

Local bands play free at the TD Plaza, Fridays at 6.00 in the summer. Also, on Canada Day (July 1st) there is music at the TD Plaza, and at Canada Place in two indoor stages and one outdoor. Also at this event there are activities for kids and dancing all day.
For more information check The Fox (radio) website: www.cfox.com.

Free open air jazz music over two weekends at the Jazz Festival in June (www.coastaljazz.ca).

Kitsilano Showboat - open air venue on Kits Beach every week in the summer.
www.mykitsilano.com

St. Patrick's Day - free music all day at three outdoor stages and two indoor venues on Granville Street. The parade is on the Saturday closest to St. Patrick's Day. (www.celticfestvancouver.com/parade.html)

Vaisakhi - free music, dancing and food all day. More information can be found at www.channelm.ca/ce_index703.html.

Music and fireworks at The Festival of Light - from a barge in English Bay, with music simulcast on Rock 101 (www.rock101.com).

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