Opinion

Mother Nature can be a cruel partner. She'll blow in and bless the backcountry mountains with powder enticing the adventure seeker in all of us to strike out and play.

Helipad fails

Tech predictions are a risky business, but lately I haven't been too bad. Reading about a dozen tech websites and blogs a week doesn't hurt my average and keeps my predictions reasonable. I still blew a few calls for 2011.

"The real magic of discovery lies not in seeking new landscapes but in having new eyes." – Marcel Proust Sigh. Another year. Another short paddle down the mighty Chronos River. Some of us grew from the experience. Some of us just got older.

It was a big year for the technology industry in a lot of ways, good and bad, happy and sad. Without further ado, here are some of the biggest tech stories of the year. R.I.

There can be little doubt that 2011 was a game-changing year in Whistler. It was the year the resort really came face-to-face with the post-Olympic reality with the honeymoon-glow of hosting the 2010 Games fading.

New Year's Resolution

"All the world's a stage, and all the men and women merely players: they have their exits and their entrances; and one man in his time plays many parts..." - William Shakespeare What a year.

Everybody talks about the weather but nobody does anything about it. — attributed to Mark Twain Whistler has enjoyed a good holiday season, by most accounts.

There's an immutable law in Christmas shopping that the more last minute a gift is. the greater the chance that it will be returned.