Work to build the 2010 Olympic Cross-Country, Biathlon and Ski Jumping venue in the Callaghan Valley is scheduled to be completed this autumn.  

The Competition Venue in the Callaghan Valley is located at the end of a newly completed 12 km 4 lane road.  The entrance is only 14km from the Whistler Olympic Village. Travel to Vancouver the Venue is estimated to take about 75 min.

The Callaghan Valley will be host to a total of 28 Olympic competitions including twelve Cross-Country, three Ski Jumping and three Nordic Combined events. The Ski Jumping competitions will take place on the two side-by-side jumping hills (HS 106 and HS140). The ski jumps are made of two “super structures,” made of massive steel trusses 24m long and 8m wide that arrived on site earlier in the summer.  They were transported from Vancouver by barge in the middle of the night up Howe Sound to Squamish.  They they were loaded on trucks for the 50 km journey up the Sea to Sky Highway.

Near the ski jumps, construction of the Day Lodge and Cross-Country stadium are underway.  The Cross-Country stadium is shaped as a horseshoe giving spectators views of the competing athletes for over 800m of the course. The technically challenging Olympic sprint loop is entirely in view from the main stadium bleachers. The two separate 5 km competition courses differ in design.  The classical technique course consists of long, straight ups and down while the free technique (skate skiing) course is more twisty and turny, with exciting downhills. The majority of the competition trails are completed and are ready for first competitions this winter that will include Canadian national events as well as World Cup races.