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Whistler Secondary School enviro club makes waves in 2019

chaletaccommodationswhistler.com – By Braden Dupuis Club seeks new president, members in 2020 With daily headlines and millions marching in the streets, 2019 was something of a banner year for climate change awareness. And at Whistler…

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Round Up: 3 New Green Initiatives From Endura, Muc Off and Schwalbe – Pinkbike

pinkbike.com – From the Polygon UR team attempting to go carbon neutral for the 2020 season to Trash Free Trails helping to keep our favourite places to ride clear of litter, it is increasingly interesting to see h…

[News] THE WHISTLER to Stream on Shudder – Nightmarish Conjurings

nightmarishconjurings.com – THE WHISTLER, the latest indie fantasy-horror short film, from award-winning director Jennifer Nicole Stang of Round Table Pictures, is coming to video on demand! The award winning film will be avail…

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Here’s the crazy story of how they made snow in Whistler for the first time over 40 years ago

vancouverisawesome.com – November 1976 was dry, with a cold north wind blowing into December. From the time that Whistler Mountain opened for skiing in 1966 through the 1975-76 season, there had always been plenty of snow, w…

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50 Things To Do In Whistler – The Big Bucket List of Must-dos

blog.nitalakelodge.com – One of the first questions that we get asked by guests is “What are the top things to do in Whistler?” To be frank, there’s just so many! But we thought we would compile a big bucket list of an incre…

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Review: 2020 Kona Process 134 CR/DL 29 – A Quick Cornering Trail Bike – Pinkbike

pinkbike.com – That chainstay protector works well – the Process 134 is a very quiet bike. This is the first full-carbon frame in the Process lineup.

In search of the Ho Chi Minh Trail

Part 2—A trail of mechanical failures

Astried’s clutch cable was on its last strand. Thankfully we found a repair shop and also a guy who said he could help.…

Whistler skier getting set to return

Ski racer back on snow, expects to race in 2020-21

Broderick Thompson was feeling confident heading into the 2018-19 FIS World Cup campaign. Coming off two top-20 finishes in the prior season, including an eighth in the Alpine combined in Bormio, Italy, he was regularly skiing on par, or faster, than his teammates and he was eagerly awaiting bombing down the Lake Louise slopes in the lone World Cup on Canadian soil.…

The ecology of snow

By the time you read this, the freezing-level roller coaster may have hastened Whistler’s erstwhile Winter Wonderland to deliquesce down the nearest storm sewer. But seeing the valley transformed by endless curtains of snow and massive can’t-see-around-them snowbanks brings more to mind than awesome skiing.…

Whistler Secondary School enviro club makes waves in 2019

Club seeks new president, members in 2020

With daily headlines and millions marching in the streets, 2019 was something of a banner year for climate change awareness. And at Whistler’s Sept. 27 climate march, Whistler Secondary School (WSS) student Jade Quinn-McDonald was right in the thick of it.…

How to be successful, according to your future self

I call up Squamish-based mountain guide, Julia Niles, on a fun assignment—I’m writing her professional bio for the Arc’teryx athletes page. I’m happy to reconnect with her, after having her as my guide in a climbing clinic two summers ago.…

New sponsor for Whistler Cup

Sports briefs: New career best for Alexander; Three medals for Canadians at Nakiska; Gaskell podiums in Italy

The Whistler Cup revealed a new naming rights sponsor on Jan. 21. O2E Brands was revealed as the new title sponsor of the race, which will run this year from April 16 to 19.…

Resort Municipality of Whistler prepares for collective bargaining

More than 300 employees in need of new contracts

With contracts for both Whistler Fire Service employees and municipal staff (unionized and otherwise) expiring on Dec. 31, 2019, the Resort Municipality of Whistler (RMOW) is preparing for collective bargaining with both parties. The RMOW has budgeted $72,000 in 2020 for the negotiations.…

One of Vancouver’s most lauded chefs has played a crucial role in transforming WB’s on-mountain dining

David Hawksworth hosts pop-up lunches at Steeps on Feb. 8 and March 11

Several years ago, iconic Vancouver chef and restaurateur David Hawksworth was taking a break from skiing on Whistler Mountain when a resort employee handed him a comment card. But rather than fill it out, he simply scrawled his name and phone number on the card with instructions to call him.…

Vancouver International Airport readies to heighten screening for coronavirus

New disease known as 2019-nCoV has so far killed 18, sickened 600

With the latest count being 18 people dead and more than 600 people sickened as a result of the new coronavirus awkwardly named 2019-nCoV, Vancouver International Airport (YVR) is working closely with Health Canada to try to quarantine anyone passing through the airport who has the disease. Health Canada has not yet provided the airport with temperature-screening terminals that show thermal read-outs of passengers as they walk down corridors.…