Opinion

Bob Styan’s life after ski racing

Every week when reading Pique, I'm disgusted by how many instances of drunk driving there are reported. Part of what makes Whistler so great is that everything is accessible by bike, on foot, a cheap cab ride or hitchhiking.

"It is not that we have a short time to live, but that we waste a lot of it.

Morning Andrew hates Night Andrew. Morning Andrew is tired and grumpy because Night Andrew kept him up late again, frittering around and finding interesting things to do instead of sleeping.

"The family that skis together bitches together." - Jack Styan, owner of Screaming Heights He wasn't your typical little fat kid. Sure, he was a little rounder 'round the middle than most other ski racers.

They say home is where the heart is, well again I say where has Whistler gone? It's been home for 25 years and now who knows where the heart of this valley has gone! I was not going to write this until I saw the letter last week.

Wandering through the village Saturday we came across Jim McConkey, star of numerous ski films in the '50s and '60s, father of the late Shane McConkey and as ski school director for most of Whistler Mountain's first two decades, one of the first real

For years I've been a fan of Gmail and its simple integration with Google Docs, Calendar, Picasa and a wide range of other cloud-based services.

"Evolve or die..." - Charles Darwin Summer is finally here. I know. I know. Doesn't look like it. Last winter's snow is still licking the edges of the lower slopes. Powder can still be found on high north faces.

"We've taken this very special experience wrapped it in pro forma and called it a product. That's so wrong. We so undersell what we have to offer... " Arthur DeJong, mountain prophet It's not like Arthur DeJong needed more winter.