What's New at Kandahar
Summer 2008
What a joy driving the Big Mountain Road is these days! It is wide, smooth, has shoulders for bikers and walkers and measures a mile shorter than the old switchback laden road.
The chairlift (and gondola) ride is back. The lift is $12 for one trip. If you hike up the Danny On trail you can ride down for free! An all day ticket is available for mountain bikers that might want to make a few runs on the Summit Trail.
Due to the bountiful snowfall - the last one occurring in June - the wild flowers are outstanding. Bear grass, Indian paint brush, lupine and many more species are carpeting the Mountain. It looks like it is going to be an epic year for huckleberries. Yum!!
Two 9-hole disc golf courses have been developed at Whitefish Mountain Resort. One is located east of the Village area and the other leaves the Base Lodge and encircles the Rainbow Fishing Pond. The courses are free so bring your discs and try your luck. Discs are available to rent or purchase at Snowghost Outfitters.
Kandahar's landscape artist, Jennifer Byers, and her crew have the gardens and flower boxes surrounding the Lodge providing us with a virtual kaleidoscope of living color.
The Alpine Theatre Company invited the front line staff of Kandahar to a showing of "Full Monte". Wow! It was a great performance by some very talented performers. We hooted and hollered and had a fantastic time. Don't miss it if you have the chance to go.
This is the first season that Chef, Andy Blanton, has closed Café Kandahar one night per week - Tuesday. It is nice for the evening staff to have a regular night off. Wine dinners, special wine tastings and other events have been scheduled periodically on those nights and have been very well attended. So much for their regular night off!!
The main capital project for Kandahar this season is to install new electric service to support heavy-duty heat tape for the eaves of the roof (of which there are many). Following this winter's heavy snow that resulted in gigantic icicles hanging from all sides of the Lodge, the decision was made to invest in some preventative action that should prove safer and less prone to causing water to find it's way into the Lodge.
It is already after the middle of July and we are still wildfire smoke free. Although we understand that wildfires are a natural phenomena that are healthy for the forests around us, it is nice to have a break in the action. Last summer there were a number of significant forest fires in the area.
Summer is so short and so sweet and so spectacular. I have to go……………………….
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From: Richard & Sandra
Message to us: To All the Exceptional Staff at Kandahar
YOU ARE INCREDIBLE!!!
Thanks to ALL OF YOU for helping make our very First Ski Vacation a
complete success!!!
Our stay at the Kandahar is one we'll never forget. The Lodge is
absolutely beautiful, and offered everything we needed for a wonderful
vacation. Our room was gorgeously decorated and so comfortable, we felt
right at home. . . .
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