Cover Stories

Point your tips to the woods Cross-country skiing lets you have a planking good time on the flats By Chris Woodall It's Tuesday, 5:32 p.m.

High School Confidential Are Whistler teens any different from teenagers everywhere else? By Alix Noble Whistler Secondary lies almost deserted in the Friday afternoon quiet. The new white walls still look clean.

Readers’ choices: The Best of Whistler, 1997 The snow has been flying and so have the days. We asked fellow Whistlerites and visitors who briefly grace our village what they liked best about Whistler in 1997.

An echo boomer in King Arthur’s court Intrawest goes after the spirit of youth in the mountains By Stewart Glen Photos by Erik Graham/CMP Original drawings by Paul Waller Star light, star bright first star I see tonight I wish I may I wish I might I

Behold: an eagle! The (now) relatively plentiful King of Birds can't fail to inspire Story and photos by Chris Woodall They are huge, but everyone knows that of eagles.

A company town: Can Whistler incorporate The Corporation? By Stephen Vogler There's a buzz around town lately and it's not the sound of Canada geese heading south for the winter.

By Kristen Robinson There is a fun park in Ontario, a short drive from Toronto, called Canada's Wonderland.

Defying Mother Nature A $4 million computerized system, 14 million gallons of water and a month of 12-hour shifts are all it takes to make enough snow for the World Cup downhill. By G.D. Maxwell There are two pictures in Bob Morton’s office.

The boom in B.C.

Housing culture Culture may define a community, but it needs more than a refrigerator to fully develop By Stewart Glen Culture... Please define. A real poser, isn’t it? A riddle wrapped in a conundrum shrouded in enigma and waxed with metaphor.