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Friday, January 13, 2012

Sports / At Large Win a Two-Night Winter-Funtimes Getaway in Vancouver, B.C.!

Posted by Bethany Jean Clement on Fri, Jan 13, 2012 at 12:05 PM

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Good news, everyone! We're officially friends with Canada again! I knew they couldn't actually be mean.

And our friends in B.C., out of the sheer sweetness of their maple-syrup-filled hearts, have given Slog something cool to give away: a two-night stay at Vancouver, B.C.'s posh Shangri-La Hotel PLUS winter-funtimes at the City & Slope festival, which runs February 9-12.

The winter-funtimes on the slopes: two passes to Grouse Mountain—15 minutes from downtown Vancouver, super-steep, and extremely beautiful—which on February 11 and 12 is open all day and all night for 24 Hours of Winter, including 24 hours of skiing/snowboarding/ice-skating; sunset, midnight, and sunrise guided snowshoe tours; DJs; bars open until 4 a.m. (oh, Canada!); nighttime zipline tours; and snowshoe fondue tours.

And putting the city in City & Slope, Illuminate Yaletown is a street party with light installations from local artists, there's an ice-carving competition, goings-ons at Science World, etc.

But how do we decide who gets all this awesomeness?

Dan Savage wants to see your gear. To enter to win, just submit a photo of you with your snowboarding/skiing equipment—including this week's Stranger cover in the photo so we know it's a picture of you—to myequipment@thestranger.com by Monday at noon. Finalists will be chosen by a panel of experts, and a legally binding Slog poll will determine the winner.

You may define "equipment" however you like (NSFW entries depicting, say, behinds will be behind a jump in the final poll). Make sure your passport's up to date, and hit the photographic slopes!