Better Homes and Containers
On a trip to Mont Tremblant last April, while attempting to put his exuberant charm to good use, Kris “Slicer” Cormier was confronted by a seemingly nice French girl who went a bit postal when she discovered where her would-be suitor lived. “You’re from Whistler?” she screeched. “We don’t need your kind of trash here!” from Buyer's Guide 2009
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Viva Las Vegas

.. from Winter 2008 issue

On January 27, 2003, rising big-mountain star Jonny Law won the U.S. Freeskiing Nationals, picked up the Sickbird Belt (awarded for the sickest skiing of the competition) and then ditched the awards ceremony to fly directly to Las Vegas to attend SIA, the annual North American snowsports industry trade show.

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The writings on the wall .. from Winter 2007 issue
The writings on the wall
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Party Girls
Whistler turns the big 4-0 and Blackcomb makes the quarter-century club. (Spring 2006 issue)
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Rolling with the Punch
I don’t think it will come as a surprise to anyone that Whistler, like most ski areas in the west, had a not-so-memorable crazy season last winter. Yes, crazy—not lousy, but crazy. Across the country, the word on the street and in the media was that it was a terrible snow year in Whistler—which it mostly was—but there were two gems, hidden in the ruins of last winter. The first was a gift from Mother Nature herself; the second was granted courtesy of Whistler-Blackcomb.
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Mark It on your calendar
While lumbering through Lot 1 for the hundredth-odd time last season, I was startled by what appeared to be a large animal rummaging through the trunk of a red Civic.
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