North America’s trail-map legend reflects on storied 30-year career

By Joel Barde
James Niehues has painted over 200 trail maps—including Whistler Blackcomb’s

The New York Times has referred to him as the “Rembrandt of the ski trail,” The Washington Post has called him the “Michelangelo of snow,” and if you fold open a Whistler Blackcomb trail map, you’ll see his name, written amid the forest under the base of the Crystal Chair: James Niehues. In an astonishing career—which began in 1987 and will soon be catalogued in a coffee table book—Niehues has painted over 200 trail maps.…

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• Whistler News

March 12, 2019

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