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Sierra Wireless, a B.C.-based provider of wireless data communications products, has signed on to join Air Canada as a title sponsor for ninth annual Whistler Cup competition, running from April 6 to 8.

Whistler’s Tim Orr, 16, and Mercedes Nicoll, 17, came home from the International Snowboard Federation’s Junior World Championships in Sappada, Italy with more than passport stamps.

The Whistler Slo-pitch League has called a team captains meeting for 7 p.m., April 17 in the Alex Philip Lounge at the Myrtle Philip Community Centre. The meeting is mandatory for all team captains or representatives.

"What do you feed those guys up there in Canada?" That was the question most everyone was asking at the prestigious Red Bull Snowthrill of Alaska competition held in the remote Chugach Mountains of southwestern Alaska last week.

The 10-event Kokanee Valley Race Series wrapped up under grey skies on March 29 with a 27-gate giant slalom on Jersey Cream. Points were tallied and champions were announced based on the competitors’ best seven results.

Big air contest hopes to be educational as well as entertaining While the World Ski and Snowboard Festival (WSSF) takes over Whistler Village for 10 days of winter sports, music and events, a small but dedicated group of hardcore snowmobile enthusias

The selfless porters of Machu Pichu

The Whistler Mountain Ski Club took more than their fair share of the medals away from the K1 (ages 11 and 12) and K2 (ages 13 and 14) Merrill Lynch Provincial Championships over the past two weeks, putting at least one athlete on the podium in every

More than 300 young racers from almost 30 countries will be in town from April 6 to 8 to compete in the ninth annual Whistler Cup, an international FIS juvenile series of races that has been an important starting point in the careers of numerous Worl

The Whistler Valley Snowboard Club has successfully has put five riders in the junior world championships and 10 in the upcoming Canadian nationals.