Opinion

Children living in snowy places dream of storms that will bring a day off school.

It is a fact of life in Whistler that death stalks us here Every year Pique reports on the deaths in and around our community — from the lovingly written tributes to our citizens who have passed on, to the heart-wrenching tales of those lost to

No place for recklessness Please help us send this not-remorseful, not-so-brilliant young lady, Julie Abrahamsen, back to Norway where she can experiment with the local search and rescue teams ( Pique , Jan.29, page 16).

Contemplating a Caribbean vacation to escape Whistler's uninspiring winter? You might want to add a crash course on chikungunya (chicken- goon -ya) to that list of pre-trip preparations.

With oil prices plunging from more than $100 a barrel last summer to below $50 now, the consequences of a petro-fuelled economy are hitting home — especially in Alberta, where experts forecast a recession.

When future generations excavate, what will they find from our era? Old pop cans, new atomic isotopes, old cars, and plastic, so much plastic.

Staying and playing safe In the spirit of making the pursuit of the backcountry safer here's a few things that came to light over 40 years for me.

In case you have forgotten, or never even knew, the reason mountain resorts got started in the first place was not for skiing, climbing, or even hiking. It was for spa-ing.

What's in a name Thanks Dan Redford for the clarification on the origin of D.O.A. ( Pique , Jan 8). I have been trying to tell anyone who would listen about it for years. I remember a day or two after Dan and Trevor Petersen first skied it, D.O.

It was late September of 1992 when I arrived at the shores of Carpenter Lake.