Cover Stories

From Jungle to Crazy Canucks Jim Hunter’s commitment made it possible for Canadian ski racers to compete with the rest of the world Whistler writer Janet Love Morrison has spent the last two and a half years working on a soon-to-be-published book on

Journey to the Heart of the World The Santa Marta expedition By Peter Chrzanowski If one looks at the US State Department’s travel warning to Colombia, it becomes very easy to get cold feet about planning a holiday there.

A Whistler dog’s life A canine view of the resort world By Charles Barkowski Translated by S.

Music, attitude... action! Ski and snowboard films have become a force in the industry By Oona Woods The more you look at them the more they remind you of porn... but the music’s better.

It don't mean a thing if it ain't got that swing From Duke Ellington to Lee Press On and the Nails, Swing has come home By Rick Flebbe & Judy Keeler A new wave of music came to play Whistler in the mid-90s.

It’s the boots, stupid! If the ski boot fits... it’s because a bootfitter spent some time making it resemble your foot. Three of the best in the business work in Whistler. By G.D.

Loving the Aliens How 1,600 Austrians, 20,000 cases of Carlsberg and 50 million TV ski racing fans turned Vail’s 1999 World Alpine Ski Championships into a two week reprieve for North American ski racing...

The mean streets of Vancouver Nightlife in the city may follow Whistler’s lead, or it may be another world By David Branigan Vancouver. This city has forever changed in the waning hours of our century.

Hand-crafted potential The Old Mill is the artistan village Whistler has dreamed of By Bob Barnett Step into Robert Proulx’s studio and there is an immediate sense of potential.

The food we eat From local organics to big business bio-tech By Stephen Vogler "You are what you eat." I don’t know who was first credited with this saying, but it certainly rings true. Not just figuratively, but literally, even chemically.