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Backcountry Avalanche Advisory

April 24 th , 2002 A melt-freeze cycle has left us with a fairly solid surface crust on all but North aspects in the high alpine where the surface layers of snow were relatively unaffected by this process and are still quite winter-like.

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One of the premier rehabilitation centers in the country may relocate if the Vancouver Coastal Health Authority proceeds with plans to consolidate some of its facilities. The VCHA announced on Tuesday that it might move G.F.

WEF sidebar -The conditions of invite

The conditions Whistler council set Monday for inviting the World Economic Forum to hold its annual meeting in Whistler are: The meeting be scheduled in either late spring or autumn of 2004.

The Source

SPECIAL EVENTS DUAL MOUNTAIN MISCHIEF The Whistler Rotary Club is putting on an evening of interactive dinner theatre, performed by the Corporate Play People.

Community digs deep for avalanche associations

The first annual fund-raiser for the Canadian Avalanche Association and the Canadian Avalanche Rescue Dogs Association raised $4,300.

Environmental group threatens boycott of B.C. timber

Wilderness Committee promises international campaign if South Chilcotin Mountains Provincial Park is reduced Andrew Mitchell With the time ticking down until the provincial government announces the fate of the new parks and special management zones c

Whistler offers qualified invitation to WEF

Whistler will invite the World Economic Forum to hold its annual meeting here, on Whistler’s terms. Whether the WEF accepts those terms remains to be seen.

Cameras looking both ways as surveillance of border increases

The best B.C. bud is not sold on the Vancouver streets. "The stuff on the B.C. streets is B grade pot," said Corporal Scott Rintoul, spokesperson with the RCMP drug enforcement branch in Vancouver. "It could not be sold in the States.

Jody Stockfish

The faces at Whistler Animals Galore (WAG) can change from week to week. Sometimes they are furry and brown with pointy ears and a wet nose. Other times they're shaggy and grey with baleful eyes and a goofy smile.

Northern communities fight to keep rail service

More than 75 stakeholders from northern communities in B.C. attended a workshop to save the passenger train service due to be cut as of Oct. 31 this year. According to B.C.