Freehand at 24X Optical Zoom...

They say it can't be done. You need a tripod.  Oh? Watch these....

 Crown Mountain in the sunset.

Upper terminal of Grouse Mountain Skyride,

with the large and small cable cars in

the lower left foreground.

And just for the record, I do have a tripod. A Manfrotto 190XB with a ball-head mount, and it works very well. But I took the camera off it to take these shots. Just to prove a point.