Local Sports

Make a birdie, and at the same time you can help make a wish come true. The Pemberton Valley Golf and Country Club is looking for sponsors and golfers to take part in a benefit tournament for the Make-A-Wish Foundation.

The Chateau Whistler Golf Club is hosting its second annual Fairmont Chateau Whistler Foundation Golf Tournament on May 24 to raise money for community groups and programs in the Sea to Sky Corridor.

A new series of mountain bike camps, called Bike Whistler, will be coached by some of the top riders in Canada and the world.

Justify your golf Although there seem to be more charity golfing events these days than you can swing a club at – pause for the groan – there’s no denying that these spring golf tournaments are a good way to get back into form.

Rock runs feature heavily on first annual Valleycliffe of the Dolls mountain bike ride It isn’t Moab, but if you like riding steep rock sections on your mountain bike, the Valleycliffe trails could be the next best thing.

Since the Whistler Mountain Bike Park hosted 18,000 rider visits in 1999, the number of mountain bikers using the park has increased 60 per cent and 55 per cent over the last two seasons to almost 30,000 riders.

Make a birdie, and at the same time you can help make a wish come true. The Pemberton Valley Golf and Country Club is looking for sponsors and golfers to take part in a benefit tournament for the Make-A-Wish Foundation.

Bikercross event to feature world’s best Last year more than 2,000 spectators turned out to the first annual Joyride Bikercross at the base of the Whistler Mountain Bike Park.

Three Whistler skiers in top seven at World Free Skiing Championships At mile 45 on Thompson Pass, Alaska, 20 of the worlds finest freeskiers sit silently. Through binoculars their eyes are eagerly fixed on 7,000-foot Mount Billy Mitchell.

The Whistler Gymnastics Club raised $1,440 in a two-week bottle drive that will go towards the purchase of a new table vault.