Cover Stories

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.

Now you see ’em, now you don't Whistler's not so elusive Hydro lines By Stephen Vogler Imagine what it would feel like to have 960,000 volts of electricity coursing through you.

Darren. A story for Halloween Fiction by Chris "Midnight Stalker" Woodall Darren loved to go to school. As soon as it was September, there he would be at his favourite place at the back of Mrs. Barker's Grade 4 class.

Diversifying the base Whistler may be learning from Bre-X and Doug the squirrel By G.D.

Big game hunting for the wily rogue mushroom We walk through the forests on the prowl for edible secrets By Chris Woodall They are neither animal, vegetable nor mineral, but they are everywhere. They are most definitely alive.

Mountain World still has room for dreams Glenn Fawcett’s quest to make virtual reality an actuality in Whistler By David Branigan There has been plenty of hue and cry over the past 18 months about the pace of development in Whistler.

The Wide World of Religion Whistlerites worship at the Temple Of Sport By Stephen Vogler The people who named Whistler's first church The Skier's Chapel may have been on to something that they themselves were not even aware of.

Attack of the seasonal fire-crews 96 per cent of their work goes unnoticed, but that doesn’t mean the adrenaline isn’t flowing on a regular basis By Oona Woods All winter long Aaron Clements is concerned about snow conditions and avalanches.