Pee before you go
Another reason I was scared about the experience was because when I looked up the Porsche off Road Experience with Canadian Wilderness Adventures I could not find any information about bathrooms. Bathrooms are very important to me and a three hour journey without bathrooms is almost as terrifying to me as driving a Porsche Cayenne off a mountain cliff. As we were filling out the waiver forms in the gorgeous lobby of the
Four Seasons Resort in Whistler I worked up the nerve to confirm my big fears.
“Are there any washrooms(I asked in Canadian) on this trip?”
And the answer?
You probably want to go before we leave.
At this point I was pretty thankful that l I had only drank half of my Diet Coke with my lunch and promptly decided I would wait on finishing it until we got back from our adventure. And honestly once we got out there with all the driving and the exhilaration of being a passenger while someone else was driving, I ended up being okay. Also, about half an hour before we got back to the hotel we stopped at a
waterfall where there were outhouses available too. Not that outhouses count as real bathrooms but they do have more doors and walls than the “bathroom” that was available on the rest of the trip. Ultimately, if your fear of not having a bathroom on the Porsche Off Road Driving Experience in Whistler led you to google and find this post, I want you to know that I think you’ll probably be okay too.
So what is the Porsche Off Road experience in Whistler really like?
I think it is probably scarier to be a passenger than a driver on this Porsche Off Road Driving Experience in Whistler. I was paired up with a fellow writer who I was just getting to know and I thought we would have an instructor with us in our Porsche 4 door car but we were on our own. The instructors drove together in one car and we drove independently but were all connected via two way radios where the instructors constantly gave us directions, instructions and reassurance. My partner was driver number one and we were the first car after the instructor car.
“I am a safe driver” she said as we zoomed away. We really bonded by the end of this experience as we drove for three hours together through the wildness. When it was my turn in the driver’s seat as driver number two I looked at her and said “I’m a very safe driver too.”
If there are two drivers in your car, driver one takes the wheel from the first part of the trip on the Sea to sky Highway and to the off-road trails in the
Callaghan Valley where my guys first learned to snowshoe when they were small. Seeing this area without snow was already an eye-opening journey but then I realized how much more ground you can cover in a Porsche than you can on foot. I love hiking, but riding in this powerful car was definitely a lot more exhilarating. We bounced over rocky, jagged terrain, and kicked up so much dust it was difficult to see. We ended up in an area where we would learn to drive the car sort of sideways like they do in movies. Once Driver one finishes the circuit, Driver two gets to do all the same things and then take the car back to where we first took the keys back at the Four Seasons Resort.
I’ve only seen
Porsche Cayennes like the ones we were driving on highways, in mall parking lots and at the soccer field, so it was so cool to see what a Porsche Cayenne can really do. Not only is this a beautiful vehicle but it is a powerful, reliable one and I think all of us drivers left with a newfound respect. As a mom, seeing what this car can handle and experiencing what it is capable of handling made me feel a lot safer behind the wheel in a car like this. I think if I was considering buying a Porsche Cayenne, I would try the Porsche Off Road Experience in Whistler before I bought the car.