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Those hoping to spend more time in the Coast Mountains can take lengthier, multiday treks through glaciated valleys, too.

With ocean views on one side and the Coast Mountains on the other, the route through the Sea-to-Sky Corridor from Vancouver to Whistler has been named among the world’s best coastal drives.

The Fraser Canyon, which stretches from B.C.'s high interior plateau through the Coast Mountains to the lower mainland, suffered some of the most severe highway washouts during the storm.

At the top, they savored a sunset ceremony where visibility stretched across the Strait of Juan de Fuca to the Coast Mountains of British Columbia, and Mount Rainier shimmered to the south.

Seventy-five miles north of Vancouver, in Canada’s Coast Mountains, the resort — technically two mountains, tethered by a two-mile-long, peak-to-peak gondola — was the host of the 2010 Winter Olympics and hasn’t looked back.