Opinion

Stick up for the planet We're living in a climate emergency.

We haven't seen the types of highway traffic jams or frustration with parking or uploading onto the mountains, as we saw in the last couple of weeks, for a while now.

British Columbia is famous in international skiing circles for its Powder Highway—a grand circle route in the province's south linking the (mostly) snowy resorts of Red, Whitewater, Fernie, Kimberly, Panorama, Kicking Horse and Revelstoke.

We live on a changing planet. Unnaturally rapid global warming is altering everything, including lands and waters. Evidence shows we've already emitted enough greenhouse gases to alter the structure of ecosystems and interactions within them.

Creekside intersection needs signage I use the Creekside intersection on a daily basis, mostly to go from the Husky side to the mountain-base side.

It was amazing to get out and play this weekend in some epic snow. But it also felt like the local snow community has been holding a collective breath with all the warnings about conditions and avalanche risks.

With this New Year's simultaneous shift to a new decade, I was reminded of a similar rollover some years ago.

It started last week with a morning coffee and social media scroll. New Year's celebrations were done and dusted and it was time to get on with 2020, beginning with a short, indulgent look at what's going on in the Facebook world.

Highway 99 lines impossible to see I work as a professional driver in Whistler and feel like I take my life (and those of others) in my hands on many nights [when I] go to work because the highway lines are impossible or nearly impossible to see

It was a dark and stormy night. No, really it was. I was driving up to Whistler from the Vancouver airport very late last Monday night, Dec. 30 and you could have been forgiven for thinking that the Sea to Sky corridor was under a monsoon.