Cover Stories

If a tree falls in the neighbourhood... Improving the view is just one excuse for exercising our natural aptitude with a chainsaw By G.D. Maxwell You can’t see the forest for the trees.

Board Room From Bond to Rebagliati the spirit of snowboarding fights to stay alive By Fiona Macdonald It’s 1985. A lone skier hurtles through Siberian wasteland, pursued by the KGB.

Healing hands Sendin' out the massage to bring body and mind together By Oona Woods Massage has tended to be equated in our society with paradise, power and perversion.

The World Ski and Snowboard Festival has always been a series of highs and lows for Olympic snowboarder Maëlle Ricker. This year was another high.

Tighten your sphincter For the last two years Roman Torn has held the tightest line and the tightest — well, he’s been the man to beat in the Couloir Extreme race.

Intrawest's vision explained o Intrawest donates Spring Creek school site, day care centre o "Whistler Station" keeps Dusty's, loses Gondola Barn, moves club house o 10-year plan commits rest of Intrawest bed units now o Details mailed out now, open

Industrial strength weed While the forest industry flounders, regulations allowing commercial cultivation of hemp may provide new opportunities for B.C. By Stewart Glen Alas, poor little plant.

Paradise Costs Whistler may be a bargain for international visitors, but how affordable is it for the people who live here? By Oona Woods It's scary the amount of times you hear people complain during the ski season that they moved here to ski but th

Is Live Dead? Once a vital cog on the rock music circuit, Whistler’s music scene is at a crossroads By David Branigan I'll always remember losing my Whistler virginity. It was March 1988, almost exactly a decade ago.

Mammoth by nature Quintessentially Southern Californian, Mammoth is about to take on a new look By G.D.