Over the past couple of years, Google has been working dilligently to expand the coverage of its popular street view service across the globe. Thanks to the Olympics coming to town, Whistler is getting a bit more attention than most ski resorts. While the proper roads in Whistler have been covered for some time and the pedestrian ways were mapped by the Google Trike last summer, Google’s street view camera recently paid the resort another visit – this time, on the back of a snowmobile.

That’s right – you can now cruise some of the larger trails on Whistler and Blackcomb from the comfort of your browser.

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According to the people responsible for the project at Google, the idea came together over the course of a few weekends with a little help from the resort and some supplies you would more expect from a startup running out of a garage than a multi-billion dollar corporation – duct tape and 2×4s.

Accessing street view on Whistler isn’t the most intuitive thing if you don’t follow the link above. In order to see the trails on the street view map, you’ll need to drag the little person over the blank space on the map to the east of Whistler Village before the trails will appear – otherwise, only roads and walkways charted by street view show up.