With the 2010 Winter Olympics on the horizon, you know Canadians are getting excited. The Winter Games are on home soil and expectations are big. If Canada can win Gold, Vancouver will consider every penny well spent. Bring it home boys! Get the 2010 Winter Olympic hockey schedule.

Panorama might still be part of the powder highway, but it’s not part of Intrawest anymore.

There still may be no more difficult business than real estate these days, even as the economy supposedly recovers. And when you’re one of the biggest mountain real estate players in the game, that’s going to hurt. Part of the pain is deciding what great places to keep and what places to give up and that’s probably why the big company decided to drop Panorama. It certainly wouldn’t be because it isn’t a spectacular mountain.

With creditors asking for cash just as the Olympic Games get set to launch in Whistler, British Columbia—the company’s crown jewel—Panorama is the second mountain Intrawest has sold in recent memory. Copper Mountain recently got snapped up for a reported $100 million.

Apparently some locals are now in control of the powder paradise. Maybe it’s the perfect time for a visit, eh?

If Whistler Mountain continues to get the kind of snow they've seen early this year, Olympic Games officials are going to worry about there being too much snow.

Much of the talk leading into the 2010 Winter Olympic Games focused on worries about warm West Coast temperatures, El Nino, and global warming. However, as it stands, Whistler is closing in quickly on 30 feet of total snow fall.

Last night alone the mother hill was hit with 28 inches of snow. No word on how much terrain they were able to open up today, so we bet if you get up there, you're in for an epic day tomorrow.