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DIRT DESIGNATIONS

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OPENING UP

THE STORIES BEHIND WHISTLER’S MOUNTAIN BIKE TRAILS

Whistler restaurants

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SCHOOLS OPEN

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time, but not everyone happy

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CLASS TIME

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Mueller hosting online paint classes

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Dirt Designations: Part 1 The stories behind Whistler’s mountain bike trails. - By Jeff Slack

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LETTERS TO THE EDITOR

Letter writers this week ask

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INTO THE WILD

The Pemberton Wildlife Association and

us to commit to ways we can reduce food waste and consider a balanced approach to

local fishing guides report how operations have been impacted by the ongoing

fighting COVID-19.

COVID-19 pandemic.

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BUSINESS AS (NOT SO) USUAL

As B.C. lifts

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CLASS TIME

Whistler artist Andrea Mueller is hosting an online

restrictions on in-person dining, Whistler restaurants are gearing up for a new normal—

paint night for adults and, for the first time, art classes for kids, too. The first adult

but just how long they can sustain under the current guidelines remains to be seen.

session is set for May 28.

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Calling out racism WHEN MULTI -generational residents of Whistler reached out to Pique last week to share stories of racism, I admit to feeling absolutely deflated, like finally there was simply no more wind in my sails.

Like everyone, my personal and professional life has been turned upside down by COVID-19: My universityattending kids are home and struggling to find “normal;” we all miss our freedom; we all miss our friends; we are pretending that everything is “fine;” and none of us wants to talk about what tomorrow will bring never mind the rest of the year.

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But outside of this personal roller coaster, a certain measure of peace could be drawn from how fortunate we were to be in Canada, in B.C., and especially Whistler, surrounded by nature and in a community where we can rely on our neighbours for

better sanitize it, she’s Asian.”

The Hamazaki family has a long and storied connection to the resort. Toshi Hamazaki arrived in Whistler in the fall of 1970 after being head-hunted by those putting together Whistler’s ski school. He raised his family here and today they run TMC Freeriderz, Whistler’s Lips lip balm and the Advantage English Language School. Though Toshi has passed away, the family is a valued and respected part of the fabric of Whistler. It’s not always been easy and Kyoko recalled to Pique that she experienced racism here as a child, but she felt the resort has moved forward from that.

Until now.

“I’m just completely shocked, and I was just angry that we have to do this all over again. Like, we’ve taken steps back,” she said.

The fact that these racist attacks are on the rise in Canada needs to be faced head on. These despicable events must be met with zero tolerance and all of us must stand up for others no matter a person’s country of origin.

Crisis can bring out the best in people, as we have seen with the true heroics reported

“Racism is also a virus. We are always stronger and more resilient as a province when we treat each other with kindness, generosity and respect.”

- JOHN HORGAN

help and support and know that together, we will get through this.

How, then, could racist slurs be happening here?

In case you missed it, Whistler local Kyoko Hamazaki told us of two incidents of racism recently. One happened when a Caucasian man shouted at a family member in the village words to the effect of “Chinese, go back home.” While another happened via Facebook when a friend of Kyoko’s of South Korean heritage posted a child’s tricycle for free and a commenter responded, “You’d

on every day when it comes to COVID-19, but it can also bring out the worst, such as racism and intolerance (and let’s not forget the alarming rise in domestic assault, a serious issue that will have its own editorial in the future).

New research from the Chinese Canadian National Council for Social Justice (CCNC-SJ) found that one in five respondents in the nation’s biggest cities said they do not believe it’s safe to sit next to an Asian or Chinese person on a bus if they’re not wearing a mask.

Four per cent of respondents said they think all Chinese or Asian people are carrying the COVID-19 virus. Susan Eng, the director of the CCNC-SJ, said with results like this, it’s not surprising we are seeing an increase in anti-Asian racism. “Canada’s leaders must stand up and unequivocally denounce every such racist incident and ill-informed belief, lest this behaviour is deemed acceptable and others are invited to do the same,” she said in a release.

On Sunday, May 17, Premier John Horgan did just that saying in a release, “Everyone has a right to live without fear of violence or discrimination. Yet we are hearing disturbing stories of a rise in anti-Asian racist behaviour since the beginning of the COVID-19 pandemic.

People are being targeted as they go about their daily lives. It is unacceptable.

“Racism is also a virus. We are always stronger and more resilient as a province when we treat each other with kindness, generosity and respect. To do so, we must all stand together to call out racism and discrimination when we see it.”

Here in Whistler, two founding members of our community—Cliff and Vivien Jennings—reminded us while commenting on Pique’s website that fighting racism and intolerance holds an even higher importance here in the resort as we are an international destination.

“Without tourists from all over the world, this town will not be able to exist,” wrote Vivien. “I have lived in Whistler full time since before 1970. We have come a long way since then in making this place a viable town, and I have witnessed the struggles.

We will have many of these struggles in opening up again to a sustainable future due to COVID-19.

“We need tourists from all over the world to come here again and not necessarily for the skiing … but to come here for our hospitality, valley scenery and activities.

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Scare those bears OK, I’ve had it. I’m officially pissed off. I have had four close encounters this past week with Whistler bears that are not respecting the physical-distancing measures ordered by [our provincial health officer] Dr. Bonnie Henry. And it’s mostly our fault.

The [bears] have become complacent to our physical presence and the pitiful human noises we make. We have to rise up and #scarethebear when it is safe to do so. We must do this to protect them. Excellent bear information can be found at www.whistler. ca/services/environmental-stewardship/bears.

Of course we must continue to: Put all garbage and recycling in wildlife-proof containers or enclosures; manage other attractants, such as barbecues, bird feeders and fruit and berry bushes; keep barbecues clean or out of reach so they don’t tempt bears to hang around humaninhabited areas; keep dogs on a leash when hiking; be wary while walking or biking on trails at dawn and dusk; and avoid moving through bear habitat silently or alone.

Call a B.C. conservation officer at 1-877952-7277 if a bear is where it should not be.

But we must do more. We cannot stand by, observe bears, take their photos and allow them to be in places where they should not be.

We are complicit in endangering the bears by our silent presence. When they are in our backyards, our parks, or on our trails and roads, there is greater potential for accidental human contact.

If it is safe to do so (check out www. bearsmart.com/play/bear-encounters), we must scare them off so they learn to avoid these areas. I would much rather scare a bear when it is appropriate and safe to do (which I have experience with) than run into one accidentally (which I do not). If shouting doesn’t work, I throw stones at them. They are usually readily available, they don’t hurt them, but they scare them. I have done this many times over the past 25 years with a 100-per-cent reliable result—they run away!

They are surprised that a human would actually physically threaten them, but more importantly, they are scared, and a scared bear is less likely to have an accidental “close encounter of the human kind.”

If you care about these bears, scare ‘em to keep ‘em alive.

Bruce Mohr // Whistler

Let’s consider a balanced approach I would like to respond to the “Letters to the Editor” written by Dr. Denton Hirsh and Dr. Tom DeMarco in the May 7 and 14 issues of Pique, respectively.

I appreciate the “bigger picture” perspectives that they brought to the table in analyzing some of the costs and consequences of the pandemic

has probably saved thousands of lives and prevented our healthcare system from being overrun. The same may be true for many other countries. However, if we look at the global side effects of the pandemic measures taken, these are just some: • some animals in zoos around the world have experienced starvation or been killed;

“ ... a scared bear is less likely to have an accidental ‘close encounter of the human kind.’”

- BRUCE MOHR

measures that have been implemented.

I am a “middle of the road” person; I do not see the world in black and white.

I see that for every action, there is always an (sometimes not so) equal and opposite reaction (to misquote Sir Isaac Newton).

I also have family members who experienced COVID-19 (my son, daughter-inlaw and their two kids, plus my cousin’s husband). They have all recovered.

Our approach to COVID-19 in Canada

• farm animals have been euthanized; • crops on farms have been destroyed; • millions of people have lost their jobs and businesses; • migrant workers have been displaced into poverty and starvation (especially in Asia and Africa); • major cities face bankruptcy; • there will be an economic recession of historic proportions; • land and ocean pollution has increased

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Recently, my teacher told me to watch a documentary about food waste called Just Eat It. A Food Waste Story. What I saw was shocking.

I learned that globally, about one-third of the food produced is wasted, normally due to tiny cosmetic imperfections or misinterpreted bestbefore dates. In Canada, the number is even bigger, coming in at roughly 40 per cent.

But this number is avoidable.

Of the food waste in Canada, about 63 per cent could actually have been eaten.

Fruits and vegetables make up for 45 per cent of this unnecessary food waste. When people go grocery shopping, they are looking for the best and most beautiful fruits and

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All that makes my own personal situation seem insignificant, the fact that my marriage to a U.S. citizen was deemed by the government as [a] “non-essential” [reason for travel] and we have not been able to be together at all due to the border closure. (We both live alone and have not been symptomatic or sick.)

We are one of many cross-border couples in this situation and needless to say, it takes a toll on mental health to be apart from the most important person in your life for as long as the government decrees. (Let it be known that this can happen in a country that prides itself on democratic principles and human rights.)

So, taking all this into account, the severe and far-reaching costs of the measures that have been implemented to protect us from an unknown virus, can we not ask ourselves if it was totally worth it in the end? What did we achieve and what costs?

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vegetables. Because of this, farms and grocery stores discard large amounts of produce that have tiny bruises that can be easily cut off, but of course, it’s easier to just buy the perfect ones.

Some grocery stores do things differently, however, as Nesters Market told me they compost their waste (or donate it to the food bank if possible). Pemberton Valley Supermarket has told me they will put the food they have to take off the shelf in 99-cent bags [for sale]. That is only if it is fit for human consumption and if not, they will put it in a scrap bag that farmers can buy with a $2 donation to the food bank to feed to chickens and cows.

Another problem is that some people don’t like eating leftovers and will just buy something new every night, therefore leaving the leftovers to rot in the back of the fridge. When bad food goes into the landfill, after rotting in the fridge, it creates ozone-depleting gases.

But I believe there is great hope, as Whistler recently made a bylaw that says, “[all commercial and strata properties] … must [collect] compost.”

There are facilities to drop off compost.

In addition, Sea to Sky Soil takes lots of food waste from local grocery stores and restaurants.

As proven in the documentary, food waste is a big problem. My question to you is, how do we fight it then?

Here are my thoughts and a challenge to you, the person reading this. The next time you go grocery shopping, look for the “imperfect” produce. Try to rescue them from their inevitable fate in the dumpster.

Another thing you can do is plan the week’s meals out ahead of time, so you don’t have to go grocery shopping every three days and impulse shop your way to tonight’s dinner. Also—EAT YOUR LEFTOVERS! They’re probably still going to taste fine and it’s a way to protect the environment. Or, if you hate eating leftovers that much, just cook enough for tonight’s dinner! It’s pretty simple, and it helps protect the environment (and your pow in the winter).

The final thing you can do is start a compost because, let’s face it, you have to throw food out sometimes. But at least this way, you can stop all this waste from going to the landfill and reduce the harmful gases from going into our atmosphere.

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Boys to damaged men GENTLEMEN, we have a problem.

As the recent mass shooting in Nova Scotia once again demonstrates all too painfully, there’s an inherent flaw in the male psyche that goes beyond nurture into our very nature. The same traits that once made men useful—charging at animals 10 times our size with pointed sticks and

BY ANDREW MITCHELL battling other primitive males to protect our tribes—are a liability in the modern world.

Statistically, men are 17 times more likely than women to murder someone. A list of American “rampage killers” has 98 names, all of them male. All of the mass murderers in Canada going back over 100 years are men. We also make up over 90 per cent of serial killers, their victims mostly female (65 per cent).

In any category, from assault to sex assault to theft, men are the worst offenders.

Out of a prison population of 15,000 across Canada, only 700 or so inmates are women.

It’s not just a tendency to violence and criminality that sets some men apart.

Angry men are also overrepresented at things like recent armed protests against

COVID-19 quarantine measures and those neo-Nazi/nationalist rallies south of the border. Judging by photos, men were also the majority at anti-immigrant “yellow vest” rallies and “Wexit” rallies in Canada.

There are 130 active hate groups in Canada, membership in which is mostly male.

Men are also less likely to believe the science on climate change, which might have something to do with declining enrolment in universities (men are falling behind in all kinds of measurable ways including higher education).

And men are usually the ones who go too far posting online, calling for the heads of anyone they don’t agree with—politicians, activists, journalists… even a 17-year-old girl on a school strike. The commenters stalking Greta Thunberg around the web are a perfect example of men at their angry worst.

Then there are “incels,” the “involuntarily celibate” men with a growing body count who think women owe them love and affection because they are the real “nice guys.” One of those nice guys killed 10 people and injured 14 others, mostly women, with a rented van in Toronto in 2018. In certain dark corners of the web, he’s considered a hero—as is Marc Lépine, who killed 14 women at École Polytechnique in 1989.

It’s pervasive and it’s worrying. The seeds for the next massacre have already been planted in someone’s head—it’s really

only a question of where, when and how.

We have a pretty good idea of the “who.”

It’s not like I’m the first person to wonder what’s going on. After events like Canada’s worst-ever massacre, a rampage that started out with an act of revenge against an ex-wife, the question of male aggression inevitably comes up. There is no shortage of books and research topics on the subject going back 60 years. Lots of talk, no answers.

One factor that’s often looked at is mental health, and there is definitely something to that. Canadian men are three times more likely to commit suicide, twice as likely to abuse drugs and alcohol, and twice as likely to end up on the streets. We are more likely to be isolated and have fewer friends. But the reality is that women are just as susceptible to mental illness and experience all the same life stresses as men and yet are far less likely to lash out with violence.

A lot of people point to how boys are raised and the male coming-of-age experience. Through sports, fights, and stupid stunts, we are more likely to sustain brain injuries. Males, driven by testosterone, are also encouraged to take bigger risks, partly because our culture demands it.

But it’s also undeniable that men are naturally wired to be aggressive and take risks. Men get in about 50 per cent more car accidents. We are 17 times more likely to die in avalanches.

The analogy I like best about the male psyche actually comes from a sitcom of all places: Unbreakable Kimmy Schmidt. Kimmy, a character who was kidnapped and forced to spend 15 years in a bunker, writes a book about a world where all boys have a monster inside they have to learn how to control. (The idea caught on so much that they made it into a real book, The Legends of Greemulax.)

Men are understandably defensive about all of this. The vast majority of us pose no risk to anyone. But denying the statistics and not taking responsibility for the underlying problem isn’t doing our gender any favours, either.

It’s too early to know all the reasons why Gabriel Wortman murdered 22 people in Nova Scotia on April 18 and 19, or how he lost control of his monster, but for his victims, it’s also far too late. We already know of at least one thing that Wortman shares with other mass killers, and that’s manhood. That’s a good place to start.

It’s past time for men to figure out exactly what our role is in an increasingly peaceful and equal world where some of the things we evolved to be are no longer needed. We have to raise boys differently and support and nurture young men in a different way. And men have to be the ones to take the lead on this and clean up our own mess.

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Whistler restaurants can resume in-person dining this week MANY RESORT RESTAURANTS TAKING WAIT-AND-SEE APPROACH AS PHASE 2 OF RECOVERY KICKS IN ACROSS B.C.

BY BRANDON BARRETT CHRISTINE GRANT is feeling the nervous pangs she would normally get the night before opening a new restaurant. But the front-of-house manager isn’t christening a sparkling new eatery; she’s readying Pizzeria Antico to reopen for in-person dining weeks after restaurants across B.C. were forced to drastically limit their operations due to COVID-19.

“I couldn’t sleep. I was worried about what people were thinking and how it was all going to go,” Grant said just hours after the Main Street pizzeria had welcomed sitdown diners for the first time in more than two months.

“Honestly, a lot of people are just quite happy, seemingly, to get a beer in a glass that isn’t from their own cupboard.”

As of Tuesday, May 19, restaurants and patios across B.C. were permitted to reopen under strict guidelines, including operating at a maximum of 50-per-cent capacity; allowing groups of up to six people, with each group seated at least two metres apart; and drafting and posting a COVID-19 safety plan. Booths will also have to have barriers installed between them, and a restaurant’s occupancy will be determined by the number of tables

DINING IN Pizzeria Antico was one of a handful

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the operator can fit into its space while adhering to physical-distancing protocols.

Grant said diners have mostly been respectful of the new guidelines on the first day of B.C.’s new normal—with a few exceptions.

“We’ve had to actually have a couple conversations with people today, unfortunately,” she said. “We’re essentially retraining our customers as to what this new normal is going to look like and what the

That is a challenge, for sure,” Griffith said. “You really have to think about your layout and how you’re going to do it. It’s going to take some decisions and to get the measuring tape out.”

Earls Kitchen + Bar was another local eatery that resumed in-person dining Tuesday, with its normal capacity of around 300, including the patio, cut in half. Counting 68 restaurants across North America, Earls had already reopened

“Honestly, a lot of people are just quite happy, seemingly, to get a beer in a glass...”

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procedures are to come into the restaurant.”

While a handful of local restaurants have resumed in-person dining, many operators are taking a wait-and-see approach before letting guests back through their doors.

“I think it will take a week for people to process it and decide what they’re going to do,” said Eric Griffith, president of the Restaurant Association of Whistler (RAW), which held a virtual meeting with members last week only days before WorkSafe BC issued reopening procedures for the sector.

“I think anyone with a larger square footage and the right type of product mix is going to give it a shot, but they’re still maintaining the 50-per-cent occupancy.

locations in Texas, Manitoba and Alberta in recent weeks, and, locally, looks to be something of a litmus test for other operators gauging whether to follow suit, said Griffith, who doubles as the owner of Alta Bistro.

“They truly believe they can take that leadership role. Kevin Wallace, the general manager, said ‘We are sharing what we’re learning,’ which is so great for us as a small, independent restaurant,” said Griffith.

“This week will be interesting.”

And while Grant said Pizzeria Antico, which has pushed its delivery and takeaway offerings through a series of popular specials, has maintained similar sales

volumes during the pandemic to the same shoulder-season period last year, the reality is an industry already relying on razor-thin margins can’t sustain for long under the current restrictions.

“The trouble with all of this is going to be how long can the restaurant industry live with these guidelines?” asked Earls Chief Operating Officer Craig Blize from the organization’s Vancouver headquarters. “As we all know, 50-percent capacity is not going to be a healthy model long term, and so we need to start getting to 75-per-cent and 100-per-cent capacity, but be patient and understand that the safety of our employees and guests is of the utmost importance.”

Staffing is another question mark for the sector. For now, Griffith said restaurateurs are relying on core staff, but as travel begins to ramp up and demand along with it, “then we’ll see where we end up with employing more people outside of the core teams that will be required to do the volume, if we see that volume.”

Although there is plenty of uncertainty ahead, Griffith believes there is reason to be optimistic as restaurants begin to welcome diners once more.

“I’m sure everyone is going to do a great job of it because our community here in Whistler is all about welcoming back the regional market, the Vancouver market,” he said. “We know we’re a safe place to be, so that’s the line we’re taking as a group.

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announced last week that students have the option to return to class part-time starting on June 1, some parents are concerned about their children’s education as the COVID-19 pandemic stretches on.

Marnie Gibson’s son is in Grade 12 at Whistler Secondary School (WSS), taking three classes this semester ahead of graduation. But when in-school classes moved to at-home learning after spring break, her son, she said, all but fell through the cracks.

More motivated by sports than academics, said Gibson, he’s lacking the structure he needs now that his classes largely consist of weekly emails from teachers. While some students have had consistent video conferencing opportunities with their teachers and classmates, others— like her son—have not.

“How can we get our teenagers out of bed when there’s nothing?” Gibson asked. “How do I work with that? It’s simply not right. He has assignments. He’s supposed to log in— one teacher specifically said she’s not using Google Classrooms, just email. [She] emails on Monday. Her expectation is they hand in assignments on Friday. But if he doesn’t hand it in on Friday, there are no late marks … He can basically leave it until June.”

With School District 48 saying that Grade 12 students who were eligible to graduate before spring break will, in fact, graduate, Gibson also worries they will simply be shuffled along.

She added: “My concern is not about the lack of work; it’s about the lack of connection, lack of schedule, lack of any type of structure. How did they go from structured, show-up-at-school to do-it-onyour-own with no type of transition?”

Gibson has raised her concerns at the school and is hopeful circumstances will improve, but she is still worried about the six weeks of schooling her son has lost.

“I don’t want it to seem like I’m smashing all teachers,” she said. “There are great teachers.”

The voluntary return to class could help some students come June 1. But officials warn school won’t look like it did before spring break. Student numbers will be limited in schools (under 50 per cent for kindergarten and 20 per cent for elementary/ high schools), things like lunch breaks/pickup/drop-off will be staggered, and parents will be required to self-check their kids for flu-like symptoms every morning.

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Meanwhile, Chris Nicholson, assistant superintendent at the school district, said any students (or their parents) who feel they’re not getting the education they need should reach out to the school.

The district has had kids “with significant needs” and those of Tier 1 essential workers in school during the pandemic, but if online learning isn’t working for a student, they could head back to class as well, he said.

“We do know for some kids, the online learning environment might not be best suited to their learning,” Nicholson added.

“That’s definitely a concern. I know our teachers and schools are ready, willing, and able to provide supports that might be necessary, including in-school support, ensuring they’re following all proper protocols.”

Addressing why some classes have moved to more structured online learning than others, Nicholson said the district aims for personalized education with both teachers and students.

“Rather than dictate and say, ‘a teacher shall ensure students will have x number of hours per week,’ we are relying on and have confidence in the professionalism of our teachers to establish what makes sense in their class,” he said.

Meanwhile, Lisa McCullough, superintendent of the district, sent out an email highlighting plans to bring some students back to in-school learning. Once the province moves to Phase 3 of its reopening plan, students in kindergarten to Grade 5 will be invited back on a part-time basis.

Students from Grades 6 to 12 will also have more opportunity for in-person support, the letter said.

“Our staff will be at school and work sites preparing our buildings for the new safety standards required before increasing the number of people at each site,” the letter said.

“This will include redesigning classrooms to create additional open space and to accommodate enhanced cleaning routines, creating part-time learning schedules, building transportation plans, creating new arrival and departure routines, outlining staggered breaks and lunch scheduling for students, creating new emergency plans, creating new staff schedules, and so on.”

But for students like Gibson’s son, that could come too late. “If my son does nothing, they’ll just push him along,” she said. “What are we going to do, just send this kid off even if he doesn’t have the credits? It just doesn’t seem like they’re doing enough.”

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New emergency powers for municipalities to be used sparingly, mayor says ‘OUR GOAL IS TO CARRY ON THE BUSINESS OF THE MUNICIPALITY, CERTAINLY NOT TO DAMAGE DEMOCRACY’

BY BRADEN DUPUIS A B.C. MINISTERIAL order issued earlier this month gives local governments significant power to pass bylaws in one sitting, a move some observers say violates democratic principles.

In Whistler, powers under Order M139—signed by NDP Solicitor General Mike Farnworth on May 1—were used at the May 5 council meeting, at which the community’s tax bylaws and related budget amendments were introduced and adopted in one sitting.

While adopting those bylaws presented some urgency (all B.C. municipalities must have their budgets passed by May 15), Whistler Mayor Jack Crompton said he couldn’t see any other scenarios that would require bylaws to be rushed through that fast.

“I think it would be relatively rare that we would use that provision,” Crompton said.

“I don’t see another clear use of [it].”

According to Canadian Civil Liberties Association executive director Michael

Bryant, the order contains “the worst approach to emergency management,” and removes sober second thought from the process.

“Time is democracy’s friend; fear and anxiety its enemy,” Bryant said, adding such powers allow for the creation of bad law.

“A rushed debate renders sloppy, flawed laws, just as rushed enactment and enforcement leaves citizens ignorant of the new rules, unable to comply, and punished for no good reason.”

Farnworth’s May 1 order built on an earlier decree allowing three readings and then adoptions of bylaws in single meetings by municipalities and regional districts.

The new version added land trusts to the list of local governments allowed to pass bylaws in such a fashion.

Ministerial Order M139 supersedes a previous order that also made provisions for local governments to meet electronically.

Bryant compared the COVID-19 situation to a form of war-time emergency management.

“Ideally, democratically accountable people apply laws designed outside the ‘fog

of war,’ since the emergency itself brings a fog of greater or lesser uncertainty to decisions made,” Bryant said.

“Pre-COVID, a sensible delay was built into B.C. municipal and regional council

“It’s a democratic safety valve, which the B.C. government has unwisely removed...”

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law-making, between a bylaw’s conception and birth. That permitted planning, public education and possible correction, before unintended consequences cause their harm.

“It’s a democratic safety valve, which the B.C. government has unwisely removed, in the foggiest of times, at the expense of the rule of law and public certainty.

“Expect worse law making, plus premature, indiscriminate enforcement, by local governments more powerful than ever today during COVID governance.”

The order also allows for public processes that typically happen in person to take place virtually.

“I see this as a great opportunity to learn about new tools that can serve the public process,” Crompton said.

“This whole experience has come with enormous challenges, but I expect that there are opportunities that we’ll find within it.”

While the Resort Municipality of Whistler’s (RMOW) new virtual public hearing process was still a work in progress as of Pique’s weekly deadline, Crompton said he expects to hear more very soon.

“The RMOW will only be using [the order] as long as physical-distancing measures prevent us from meeting in person,” he said.

“Our goal is to carry on the business of the municipality, certainly not to damage democracy.”

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Whistler’s community gardens open this week PROGRAM BOASTS MORE THAN 200 PARTICIPANTS—AND MYRIAD BENEFITS

BY BRADEN DUPUIS THERE IS A PAIR of gardening quotes that Cheakamus resident Olwen Kuiper always falls back on, both more relevant today than they may have been last year.

One, by Geoff Lawton, posits that, “all the world’s problems can be solved in a garden.”

The other, attributed to Audrey Hepburn, says, “to plant a garden is to believe in tomorrow.”

One of more than 200 Whistlerites involved in the GROW Whistler Community Greenhouse and Garden program run by the Association of Whistler Area Residents for the Environment (AWARE), Kuiper sees the value in a well-tended plot of land.

“I think for me, there’s just this sense of connection—to other people and also to the Earth,” she said.

“I think for a lot of people it’s a little bit of a church, you know? You just get away from things.”

Though COVID-19 delayed the official opening of AWARE’s community gardens— located at Spruce Grove, Creekside, Myrtle Philip Community School and in Cheakamus—green thumbs across the valley will be able to sow their seeds starting this week.

After two months of quarantine, the start date is anxiously anticipated.

“Right now we’re really missing it, because people are tied up with each other all day,” Kuiper said.

“It’s going to be so welcome just to get everybody out and about.”

Kuiper said she got involved with the program after moving to Cheakamus in 2015, initially focusing more on the landscaping and horticultural aspects before getting interested in growing vegetables.

In 2017, she helped put in the Cheakamus garden’s pollinator hedgerow, which attracts pollinators to the garden to help activate vegetables and produce.

“That hedgerow last summer was in full bloom, and the bees and all the pollinators were really active,” Kuiper said. “It’s very

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colourful, very vibrant, and just really brings people into the garden.”

The community garden program boasts just under 200 garden boxes at its four locations, used by everyone from seniors and singles to school groups and families, said AWARE’s executive director Claire Ruddy.

For AWARE, the gardens have multiple layers and produce myriad community benefits, Ruddy said.

“They are about giving people the ability to grow food, but they’re also about cultivating health and building community, and I think that the recognition from the

province that community gardens are listed in the essential service list … recognizes that,” she said.

“It recognizes that they play an important role in food security, but also, while people are staying physically distant but hopefully still socially connected, [community gardens] have an important role to play in terms of mental health and spending some time outdoors.”

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“But it also means that that food doesn’t have packaging on it, it’s reduced food miles, and so it’s a great kind of multilayered project.”

At the Spruce Grove site, Matt Radymski has been honing his craft for nine years, deploying a kind of trial-and-error process in that span to build one of the program’s most bountiful boxes.

“I’m not an educated horticulturist or anything like that; it’s basically season by season,” he said, adding that every summer is different.

“So even the best laid plans—like, ‘oh, well this worked last year, it will work this year’—can change.”

Visiting the garden is an almost-daily event, Radymski added, with watering, weeding and thinning taking place as necessary.

“You put in a ton of seeds and you just take the strongest ones to start, and then thin out the rest so that the strong ones have space to grow,” he explained.

“So [I’m there] almost daily, and I can keep an eye on how changes are going through … usually I’ll grab a handful of something for lunch, and then maybe later in the evening I’ll take the cruiser bike and a basket out front and pick a bunch of greens for a salad or something to sort of dress up a meal.”

While there are certain things that

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gardeners are asked not to plant—berries, fruits, corn or anything that will attract bears or wildlife, for example—the sites tend to wind up with a good variety each year.

Radymski said he finds that things like green beans, Swiss chard and kale (for a point in the summer) grow best, and lettuce tends to do well in June and early July.

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“Some herbs do really well. Basil does well late in the summer if it’s got a sunny spot, and cilantro does really well early, and then cucumbers do really well,” he said.

As for yield, it can be hard to measure out an average, “because quite often I’ll just be in there and it will almost be a smorgasbord” of taste testing, Radymski said.

“Throughout the summer you’ll get waves of like, everything is growing at once and you’ve got an abundance and you’re giving it away to friends, and then other times it starts to lean out quite a bit.”

The secret to growing bigger, more bountiful plants is good old-fashioned hard work, Radymski said, noting that he often goes the extra mile to fully refresh his box’s soil with organic compost to avoid nutrient loss.

A plant is much like an iceberg, he reasons—what’s visible above the surface is far from the whole picture.

“If the roots are unimpeded to grow, then you’re going to get more growth from your vegetables, so then more yield,” he said.

“Going the extra mile and getting elbows deep rather than just to the wrist.

It’s well worth it.”

Both Radymski and Kuiper touted the social benefits of the program as well.

“You see all different aspects, and we have a real cross section of people—seniors and school groups that have boxes, people that are challenged, and lots of single moms,” Kuiper said.

“So it’s a huge social scene.”

There are still a handful of garden boxes up for grabs for the 2020 season— boxes cost $75 for the season, plus an additional maintenance fee if you choose not to volunteer to keep the space maintained.

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Vancouver man arrested for firing pellet gun in Meadow Park POLICE BRIEFS: RCMP NABS HALF DOZEN IMPAIRED DRIVERS

A VANCOUVER MAN WAS arrested last week after he was caught firing a pellet gun in Meadow Park, police said in a release.

Whistler RCMP attended the scene at approximately 8:15 a.m. on Saturday, May 16, and spoke with several witnesses, who said they observed a group of individuals drinking alcohol and shooting what appeared to be a rifle at signs in the area.

Police later tracked down the group in the 8200 block of Rainbow Road and took a 24-year-old male into custody that was in possession of what turned out to be a pellet gun. He was later released pending approval of charges, police said.

As reported by Pique, a 52-year-old Coquitlam man and a 42-year-old Delta man were cautioned by police last month after they fired bear bangers with a launcher “that looked like a modified rifle” on Blackcomb Mountain, according to police.

Taking place the same day as the worst mass shooting in Canadian history claimed the lives of 22 victims in Nova Scotia—

including an RCMP officer—the men were cautioned that “setting off bear bangers for fun in the resort area had caused a lot of concern for police and residents in the area,” Mounties said at the time.

Then, at about 12:30 a.m. Friday, May 15, police stopped another driver, a 25-yearold North Vancouver man, after he was seen driving erratically. Exhibiting signs of

“...This spike in excessive speed violations is concerning...”

WHISTLER, PEMBERTON RCMP REMOVED SIX IMPAIRED DRIVERS FROM ROAD IN PAST WEEK It was a busy week on the roads for Whistler and Pemberton RCMP, who stopped half a dozen impaired drivers in the past week.

At 6:20 a.m. last Wednesday, May 13, Whistler police were notified of a possible impaired driver near the corner of Main Street and Northlands Boulevard.

Investigators located the driver, a 20-yearold Port Coquitlam man, and determined he was impaired by alcohol.

At about 9:20 p.m. later that night, Mounties noticed a vehicle travelling “in an erratic manner” near Lake Placid Road and Gondola Way and pulled over the driver, a 64-year-old Whistler woman, who was impaired by alcohol, police said.

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impairment, the man refused to provide a breath sample.

Later that night, police also stopped a 23-year-old Quebec woman, who investigators determined was driving while impaired.

Shortly after midnight on Saturday, May 16, Whistler police spotted a driver making an illegal U-turn by the corner of Highway 99 and Hillcrest Drive. Police noted the driver, a 20-year-old Vancouver man, was operating the vehicle while impaired.

In all of the above cases, the drivers had

their licences suspended for 90 days and their vehicles impounded for a month.

Finally, at about 9 p.m. the same day, Pemberton RCMP was tipped off to a possible impaired driver after witnesses saw a vehicle travelling away from a business on the wrong side of Frontier Street.

Police located the vehicle a short time later parked on the side of the road near Highway 99 and Pemberton Farm Road.

In light of a recent spike in speeding violations, on Friday, May 15, BC RCMP Traffic Services announced traffic enforcement would be returning to preCOVID-19 levels.

“Last week I stated that this spike in excessive speed violations is concerning and unacceptable,” said Supt. Holly Turton, the officer in charge of BC RCMP Traffic Services, in a release. “That sentiment has not changed and I am disappointed that there are drivers who continue to choose to break the law and put themselves and others in risk. This is not a game. Our officers will continue to demonstrate their commitment to road safety. There is no excuse, including COVID-19, for this kind of high-risk driving behaviour anywhere in our province.” n

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VOP council receives departmental updates COUNCIL BRIEFS: COUNCIL APPROVES $1,000 FOR FOOD TASK FORCE

BY DAN FALLOON VILLAGE OF PEMBERTON (VOP) council received quarterly updates from four of its departments at its regular meeting held via Zoom on May 5.

Heading up one of the most acutely affected departments, manager of operations and projects Tom Csima described the

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response to the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic.

Among the precautions taken are: increasing bathroom cleaning to twice daily from two to three times per week; posting signs notifying the public of playground and skate park closures; splitting crews up into different shifts to maintain physical distancing; and increasing disinfecting of its vehicles and equipment.

Even before pandemic precautions ramped up in mid-March, toward the end of the first quarter, it was a busy winter for operations after several significant snowfall events.

“Our winter snow and ice removal operations were working very hard,

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One major issue was a blockage of the wastewater treatment plant’s outfall diffuser ports, which was discovered during a routine inspection. There were roughly two metres of sediment covering the outfall pipe, Csima said.

The second pipe was still flowing, though there was a risk that it would eventually be blocked as well, Csima said.

The VOP consulted engineers, river hydrologists and environmental

consultants and determined a solution, with work starting on March 31.

“We found there was about 1.8 metres’ depth and about 30 metres in either direction of the diffuser port that we removed so it would not fill back in,” he said.

During the process, crews repaired the port and modified its assembly in an attempt to ensure that the work lasts for the long haul.

“We’re very hopeful that these repairs will be long-term solutions. I have some planned operational changes that might have a cost associated to it, but that is something we could budget for and do maybe next year,” Csima said. “Also, I

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Csima added that instead of completing dive tests once every five years as required, testing would be done annually.

Covering the costs associated with the work has proved challenging, as the VOP’s emergency funding application to the provincial government was denied because the problem did not stem from a single event, Csima explained. The removal and building work came to roughly $285,000, and with consultants’ fees added in, the total rises to more than $400,000.

CAO Nikki Gilmore explained that the initial plan was to do emergency works and determine next steps for a permanent fix.

The estimated cost of the fix is $2 million, so as part of the 2020 budget process, the VOP put $200,000 from reserves into its sewer budget because if the disaster assistance is approved, the VOP would be responsible for 20 per cent of the costs.

Additionally, Csima reported that staff members have been looking at options for a new backup well after discovering water quality concerns with the current secondary well at Fougberg Park.

With new provincially mandated maximum measure of contents of manganese and iron in the water, the department started looking for new options after discovering that those amounts were higher than allowed.

“This is an ever-evolving situation,” he said.

Operations staff and consultants tested two sites: one in Pioneer Park near the existing primary well and another near the existing backup well. Neither are promising solutions, as the former indicated a low yield and the latter indicated similar water quality issues.

As it analyzes other sites, the department has continued testing its backup well, Csima said, and found decreasing levels in recent tests.

“That may still be an option if we do some measure like redevelop the well or brush and bail, which is a way to clean the well,” he said.

Meanwhile, manager of development services Lisa Pedrini reported that the VOP issued 24 building permits while collecting $47,699 in permit fees during the quarter as the department continues to do brisk business.

“We’ve been quite busy, very steady in both planning and building,” she said.

“Building inspections [were] declared an essential service during the pandemic, so we have been able to continue with providing that service through contractors in the first quarter.”

Pedrini noted that the VOP hired a new building inspector at the end of April.

Also presenting was fire chief Robert Grossman, who noted that callouts in the first quarter more than doubled over five years from 48 in 2015 to 98 in 2020.

Notably, he said, there were more burn complaints and more motor-vehicle incidents this quarter and, all told, 13 of the quarter’s 91 days had three or more calls.

In response to an inquiry from Coun.

Ryan Zant, Grossman said that the

department’s 12 new recruits fulfilled the required training and will keep the membership pool well stocked as that number stands at 35.

“The recruits that came on last year, they finished their training before this all took place,” he said. “Now they’re ready to respond to calls and learn what we’re doing and they get a little more hands-on.

“In September, we start the full training again, and a lot of that is online training and practical skills.”

As well, manager of corporate and legislative services Sheena Fraser provided updates on eight outstanding resolutions, including the mountain bike skills park proposed for Frontier Street north of the downtown barn. Since the last update in January, staff has determined a potential site and will update council at a future meeting.

Noting that recreation grant funding could soon be available, Richman sought further information to confirm that the project would be shovel-ready in the near future.

Gilmore said staff members are currently determining what kinds of upgrades might be made to the site.

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COUNCIL APPROVES $1,000 FOR FOOD TASK FORCE Council approved half of what was requested by the Whistler Centre for Sustainability’s (WCS) Squamish-Lillooet Regional Food Task Force.

After cutting its Community Enhancement Fund budget in half to $7,500 in response to the COVID-19 pandemic, fulfilling the full $2,000 request, the same amount it approved for the two-year project in the 2019 budget, would have left just $250 in the fund for the rest of the year.

Coun. Ted Craddock felt uneasy all but draining the fund so early in the year, while Coun. Amica Antonelli followed up by proposing granting half the requested amount.

“I think the program is really valuable and I would like to support it, but we’ve only done partway through the year and we don’t know what other requests are going to come from the community, basically, from citizens of Pemberton,” she said. “I know it’s kind of like counting pennies, but I think it would be helpful to save something for the residents of Pemberton in that fund.”

WCS sustainable community development and project specialist Dawn Johnson said after securing $2,000 from the Resort Municipality of Whistler and $3,000 from the Squamish-Lillooet Regional District, its $29,000 matching funds from the Vancouver Foundation were secure.

She said the group was appreciative of the $1,000 from the VOP. “That’s great, and I think given the circumstances, all communities are in the same situation,” she said.

The task force’s planned projects for 2020 include: promoting sustainable food packaging and reducing food waste; inventorying food education in local schools; designing and developing a regional food procurement policy; and helping the Lil’wat Nation set up a farm school. n

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Bylaw No. 883, 2020 amends Zoning Bylaw No. 832, 2018 Residen�al Townhouse Amenity 1, Sunstone (RTA-1) Zone to permit the construc�on of duplex dwellings in mul�-family developments.

What is the significance of the proposed Bylaw No. 883, 2020?

The RTA-1 zone is one of several zones created specifically to implement the Sunstone project. The zone permits the development of single-detached small lots, or mul�-family townhouse developments. Mul�-family units consist of three or more units in a single building. The applica�on has been made as part of Sunstone Ridge Development Ltd.’s efforts to develop the Elevate at Sunstone project. To date, the Applicant has commenced construc�on of the first townhouse building; however, through the sales and marke�ng phase, the Applicant reports there is limited demand for two-bedroom interior townhouse units. The proponents submit however that there seems to be greater market demand for three bedroom, end units. The purpose of the amendment is to facilitate reconsidera�on of the Elevate at Sunstone project to amend the RTA-1 zone to facilitate the construc�on of a duplex mul�-family project. If approved, the proposed amendment would not be the proposed amendment would not be specific to Elevate at Sunstone, but would apply to all lands currently zoned RTA-1 in Zoning Bylaw No. 832, 2018 or any future parcels which may be zoned RTA-1.

Tuesday May 26, 2020, 9 am, Via Electronic Mee�ng (Zoom Webinar ID: 853 6574 7599) How do I get more informa�on?

Copies of the proposed bylaw and relevant background documents may be inspected at the Village of Pemberton Office by contac�ng Administra�ve Staff by phone (604-894-6135) or email (admin@pemberton.ca) to set up an appointment to view a copy at Village Office, 7400 Prospect Street during the office hours of 8:30am to 4:30pm, from Thursday May 14, 2020 to Tuesday May 26, 2020 (excluding weekends and statutory holidays) and also online at www.pemberton.ca.

How do I a�end the electronic Public Hearing?

In order to par�cipate by Zoom Video Conferencing, in addi�on to the mee�ng ID number set out above, a�endees will need to first download Zoom on your computer or the Zoom APP on your phone, which is available at www.zoom.us (it is recommended that this is done and tested well in advance of the Public Hearing to ensure connec�ons and func�ons work).

How do I provide feedback pe All persons, who believe their interest in the property is affected by the proposed Bylaw, shall be given a reasonable opportunity to be heard by Council at the Public Hearing by joining the Zoom Webinar as an “A�endee” and demonstra�ng their desire to speak (Raising their Hand), when instructed. Wri�en comments must be addressed to “Mayor and Council” and may be submi�ed through one of the following methods prior to the Public Hearing (by 4:00pm on Monday, May 25, 2020) Email: admin@pemberton.ca Fax: 604.894.6136 Mail: Corporate & Legisla�ve Services, Village of Pemberton, P.O. Box 100, Pemberton, BC, V0N 2L0 In Person: Corporate & Legisla�ve Service Department, 7400 Prospect Street, Pemberton BC Submissions received for the proposed Bylaw before 12:00pm on Wednesday, May 20, 2020 will be included in the Public Hearing informa�on package for Council’s considera�on. This informa�on package will also be available on the Village website at www.pemberton.ca with other associated informa�on on Friday, May 22. Submissions received a�er 12:00pm on May 20, 2020 will be presented to Council at the Public Hearing. At the conclusion of the Public Hearing, no further informa�on on this topic can be considered by Council.

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RANGE ROVER

Silver lining: The Whistler déjà view

BY ASTA KOVANEN WAIT—I’VE BEEN HERE before… or at least something like it.

Throughout March and April, I had this sensation—strong feelings of familiar having-been-heres, immediately followed by wondering what could possibly feel familiar about a global pandemic that shifted our community’s outdoorsy lifestyle indoors and into a hyper-simplified mode.

While the conditions that wrought this change were unusual, the lifestyle we turned to in our household was not. As it happened, some of those outcomes closely aligned with experiences of our Year of No Shopping in 2018 (Pique, “A Year of Living Better,” Feb. 10, 2019). There was also a sense of drawing upon an even earlier lifetime, a childhood based in country living and subsistence farming.

Basically, we were once again primarily reliant on and using what we already had, deep-mining bookshelves, art supplies, and cupboards for entertainment and sustenance: All familiar territory despite the differing circumstances. After all, we’d lived an entire year under strict, selfimposed limitations that prohibited any material purchase save groceries. We’d found this clear delineation helpful to prioritize our goal of reducing consumerism, while delivering genuine happiness as a byproduct. This time around, of course,

NO BARE CUPBOARDS HERE Stocking up then digging into the stores seems like old hat.

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there’s a higher level of anxiety, what with intense daily news cycles and loss of employment, but also some strikingly similar silver linings.

I was surprised to experience strange delight in exploring options for our limited supplies and also in stocking cupboards. Having popcorn for dinner was a joyful discovery and cookbooks turned out to be a valuable resource once dusted off. Jars were filled with newly purchased grains and legumes alongside dried herbals gathered the previous summer. Dinners were experimental as we worked our way through some of the more obscure ingredients in the dark corners of the kitchen. It reminded me of childhood dinners, making do with unexpected combos because popping into town to grab something wasn’t an option.

Towards the end of our Year of No Shopping, I read an article by David Cain (www.raptitude.com/2018/12/why-thedepth-year-was-my-best-year) that outlined one of his own self-experiments—a “Depth Year”—that got us thinking of committing to one ourselves. The idea is this: rather than continually pursuing new interests or acquisitions, a year is spent delving into your own innate skills, passions, possessions—deepening, in a tangible way, your already existing life: “A big part of the Depth Year’s maturing process would be learning to live without regular doses of the little high we get when we start something new. If we indulge in it too often, we can develop a sort of ‘sweet tooth’ for the feeling of newness itself. When

newness is always available, it’s easier to seek more of it than to actually engage with [improving an existing skill]… The consumer economy nurtures this sweet tooth. There’s just so much money to be made in selling people new paths—new equipment, new books, new possibilities. The last thing marketers want is for people to get their excitement and fulfillment from what they already have access to… the incredible wealth remaining in what [they] already own.”

Reduce, re-use, and recycle was the focus of our no-shopping experiment, and having grown used to it, for months following its end, neither of us was in a rush to buy anything. Even when, over time, new items inevitably showed up—running shoes, a camping stove—it was more a trickle of perceived necessity than indulgence. OK, some indulgence… mostly books.

In hindsight, that year of self-limitations now seems a practice run of sorts for today’s enforced lifestyle shift: trips to the grocery store have been greatly reduced in favour of using up stores and deliveries from local small businesses. As a side effect of being home, I’ve rediscovered what I had sitting around and exercised creativity in utilizing it—repurposing fabric, getting old gear ready for re-use, baking forgotten freezer treasures into crumble pies. The reality is that we could—and should—operate more like this all the time.

A recent article by Anita Makri, “The Surprising Link Between our Consumer Habits and Deadly Diseases” (ensia.com/ features/consumer-habits-pandemic-

risk), explores how societal standards that go unchallenged can lead to continued destruction of nature, to our clear peril, including amplifying the ability for zoonotic diseases like COVID-19 to make the critical leap into our communities.

The article highlights our collective responsibility to pay more attention. Earth may be particularly—and brilliantly— suited to support the lifeforms it does, but it has taken us too long to face the fact that this all exists in a balance that can be readily tipped into catastrophe, and that our choices have concrete consequences.

While elevated consumption is marketed to us as an ideal to strive for, it’s neither personally satisfying nor sustainable for the rest of the living world.

A friend of mine claims she has never experienced déjà vu, doesn’t understand the experience and is perplexed by people who claim the sensation of having been somewhere before. I can’t say that a rural childhood or a Year of No Shopping fully prepared me for the strangeness of the past few months, but I do know that choosing a year of lower consumption was a pivot in life-as-we-know-it that brought unexpected moments of grace and acceptance that are currently being put to good use.

So. Familiar, yes—but no, we have not been here before.

Asta Kovanen and her partner, regular Range Rover columnist Leslie Anthony, did a Year of No Shopping in 2018. Early in the pandemic, Asta suggested that the non-commercial aspect of self-isolation felt similar in many ways but even more important, and from that grew this week’s column. n

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DIRT DESIGNATIONS

Part 1 THE STORIES BEHIND WHISTLER’S MOUNTAIN BIKE TRAILS

BY JEFF SLACK

[Editor’s Note: With ski season frustratingly cut short this year, droves of antsy Whistlerites had no choice but to turn their sights from snow to dirt. And while COVID-19 has delayed the opening of Whistler Mountain Bike Park beyond its usual mid-May target date, nothing is stopping Whistler’s two-wheeled warriors from hitting the rest of the valley’s extensive network of trails. With that in mind, Pique is re-running a popular feature from 2015 that explores the often weird and wacky (and, let’s face it, occasionally R-rated) stories behind the creatively named trails dotting

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the resort. Stay tuned for Part 2 next week, when sports editor Dan Falloon will delve into the names of the many new trails that have been built or sanctioned in the past half decade.]

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ariety, flow, inspiring views, minimal environmental impact, challenging and creative features, durability … There are a number of factors that go into a great bike trail. Often overlooked, but no less crucial is the name bestowed upon the trail.

A good name sparks curiosity and

fuels stoke. Looking to ride a new trail? Would you be enticed to go ride something like “Winding Forest Trail” or worse “Trail No. 28,” when “Wizard Burial Ground” is an option?

The best trail names not only put a smile on your face, but tell a good story while they’re at it.

Luckily for us, Whistler’s burgeoning cadre of trailbuilders are not only dedicated, visionary and talented, they’re fans of quirky, idiosyncratic trail names that add another layer of fun when ripping around through Whistler’s forests.

The Valley’s Trails The Whistler Valley has an incredible and often underappreciated network of trails meandering through almost every nook and cranny of our valley. The first routes were mostly reclaimed from decommissioned logging roads in the early 1980s, but it wasn’t long before more industrious folks began building them from scratch.

The vast majority of trails came through countless hours of solitary, unpaid,

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Dan Swanstrom backbreaking labour by renegade builders who simply wanted a few fun trails for themselves—and maybe a few select friends.

Their efforts have been largely vindicated, as many of these technically illegal trails have retroactively become recognized.

Today, multiple builders are being hired and paid to create sanctioned routes.

LOST LAKE PARK: We begin where most riders are introduced to Whistler mountain biking, Lost Lake Park. This series of trails was built by Eric Barry. As we will see, musical influences often factor into bike trail names, and in this case, Barry decided to name each segment of the blue-rated trail network after a Frank Zappa song.

With psychedelic names like PEACHES EN REGALIA, ZOOT ALLURES, TOADS OF THE SHORT FOREST, and SON OF MR. GREEN GENES. A number of less technical, multiuse trails pay homage to the logging industry, which played a major role in the early development of the Whistler Valley and whose decommissioned roads unintentionally formed the backbone of the hundreds of biking routes that ensued: TIN PANTS: A heavy waterproof, canvastype pant that protected loggers from the elements and their chainsaws.

MOLLY HOGAN: A technique for splicing together wire cables used by logging crews.

HOOKTENDER: The supervisor of a logging crew.

DONKEY PUNCHER: The operator of the “donkey,” a slang term for the steampowered machine used to haul logs around camp.

GYPSY DRUM: A big, strong breed of horse frequently used in logging operations.

The Rest of the Valley A RIVER RUNS THROUGH IT: This reference to the popular 1992 film was deemed appropriate because, well, a river runs through it.

COMFORTABLY NUMB: Whistler’s official epic ride—it has actually been afforded the “Epic Ride” designation from the International Mountain Bike Association—a ride on this trail will leave your mind and body battered senseless.

The trail-builder, Chris Marble, was clearly a Pink Floyd fan, as one of the only escape routes along Comfortably Numb’s

circa 1994 24-kilometre route is called Young Lust.

DANIMAL: This west-side classic is named after the trailbuilder Dan Swanstrom, who also built “A River Runs Through It,” much of the “No Flow Zone” and several other local trails.

Danimal has the distinction of having possibly the most ostentatious trail sign on the planet. A solid granite plinth marks the trail’s entrance, among others in the Stonebridge development high up on Whistler’s west side. When work on this luxury neighbourhood was originally slated, anxiety beset the local riding community as it threatened a number of long-established— if not officially sanctioned—bike trails in the area.

In response to lobbying from the Whistler Off-Road Cycling Association (WORCA), the Resort Municipality of Whistler (RMOW) decided to designate several trails as legal, and thus protected thoroughfares, and established a strong precedent for cooperation between the RMOW and the local biking building communities. Since Danimal was here to stay, Stonebridge’s developer decided to embrace it and mark the trail in a manner befitting its swanky surroundings.

THE “NO FLOW ZONE”: This collection of trails around Emerald offers a variety of frustrating, technical challenges. Many of the trail names in the Zone warn the rider of what lies ahead: Shit Happens, No Girlie Man, White Knuckles, Anal Intruder (your bike saddle, that is).

HIGH SOCIETY: This double entendre refers to its proximity to both the posh Stonebridge development, as well as the pre-existing trail, Legalize It (a prescient name considering recreational cannabis was finally legalized in 2018).

DARWIN’S: Named in honour of the trailbuilder Eric Barry’s dog, who was a puppy at the time.

TUNNEL VISION: This trail was originally built straight and fast, forcing the rider into this mental state.

CUT YER BARS: One of the Whistler Valley’s original bike trails, this classic ride used to be really tight, hence the instructional trail name.

RIDE DON’T SLIDE: This name is instructional—it is really steep and prone to erosion—although not as one might

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expect. It was originally built as a climbing trail for trials dirtbikes, as is the case for a surprising amount of Whistler’s favourite mountain bike trails.

LOWER YER SADDLE: Another instructional name, as this trail features mostly technical X-country-style riding, but with a few steeper features thrown in the mix.

BOB’S REBOB: Built mostly from reclaimed logging roads, this trail is named after ex-WORCA President Bob Eakins.

SEE COLOURS AND PUKE: An old climbing trail that was later rehabilitated to work as a descent as well. Simply climbing this trail might mess with your mental state, but the name is actually a reference to a very early cross-country race organized by Whistler off-road biking pioneer Doris Burma.

The race was always a challenging slog, but many participants were already hallucinating before setting off; the physical exertion had nothing to do with it. This event was the predecessor of the Cheakamus Challenge, a gruelling endurance challenge in which the most common supplements are now energy gels and electrolyte powders.

SECTION 102: This title refers to a change made to provincial law that made unauthorized disturbance of the forest floor—which definitely describes most trail-building at the time—illegal.

BILLY EPIC: One of the oldest trails in Whistler, this was built by Bill Epplett.

BINTY’S TRAIL: Named after long-time local Vincent “Binty” Massey, who built this trail among others. Binty built this trail in the late 1980s, accessed by climbing up old logging roads that they had largely cleared themselves.

MEL’S DILEMMA: Binty and Richard Kelly are mostly responsible for this trail, with some help from Binty’s preschool-aged son.

At the time, the two trail-builders were big fans of Scarface, and for reasons long-since forgotten had taken to referring to each other as “Mel,” a crooked cop from the film who meets an inglorious demise. The dilemma is simply choosing your route through this snaking maze of paths.

GOLDEN BONER: Trail building can often be a lonely and thankless task. Rumour has it that the trail builder was going through a bit of a lull in his love life at the time.

KHYBER PASS: This trail name was first

applied to the backcountry ski zone the bike trail cuts through. Vincent Massey recalls how the name first came into use because at the time, long before Peak Chair was built on Whistler, this section of the mountain was a long hike from the top of the T-bars. “It was so far out there it was almost exotic, so we figured we’d call it Khyber’s after the famous mountain pass in Afghanistan.”

PHD: In the amount of time spent working on this long, steep, and challenging trail north of Whistler, the builder could have earned an advanced post-secondary degree. Most riders would agree that the trail was completed summa cum laude.

A ROCKWORK ORANGE: For this trail, builder Dan Raymond put the cart before the horse and actually had conceived the name before building the trail. This trail weaves its way through a particularly rugged westside mountain slope, linking up a number of rock bluffs and slabs.

KOROVA MILK BAR: A multi-layered reference. The title is a direct reference to the mind-altering drinking establishment in A Clockwork Orange, thus connecting it thematically to the previous trail. Raymond chose this specific reference from the ultraviolent film because the trail was built in the same area as a long-defunct ride called Dairy of a Milkman, thus enabling a lactosethemed literary homage to its predecessor.

WIZARD BURIAL GROUND: The final installment in this three-piece epic ride draws its name directly from a heavy metal song by the band Umphrey’s Mcgee that Dan thought matched the intensity of the trail. The fact that the trail ends in the vicinity of the Whistler Cemetery made it even more thematically appropriate.

Whistler Mountain Bike Park The Whistler Mountain Bike Park has been a major factor in the progression of freeride mountain biking for nearly two decades.

One could argue that the names bestowed upon its several dozen trails have been just as influential. They would be wrong, of course, but that’s beside the point.

Still, the titles found on the trail map are full of insight into the trails, and even more so the characters that brought them to life.

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... the titles found on the trail map are full of insight into the trails, and even more so the characters that brought them to life.

Cheakamus Challenge circa 1994 WHISTLER QUESTION ARCHIVES

As long-time park rider and trail-builder Pete Matthews puts it: “The best names always come up during trail-building. A lot of time for banter; everyone’s tired, lightheaded, dehydrated, cracking jokes.” Not surprisingly, pop culture references, heavy metal, and playful ribbing at the expense of their peers feature heavily.

The trail crew’s jokes and banter have a tendency to go a bit further than popular tastes might appreciate. There’s a whole gaggle of unofficial trail names and other inside jokes that never made it onto the official trail map, and for obvious reasons, will not be included in this article. For those, you’ll have to ask the builders themselves.

B-LINE: B-Line is the name of a type of explosive detonation cord that can be used to link charges together, or used as an explosive on its own. When building this trail, a generous amount of explosives were used to remove a stubborn tree stump, and though early Bike Park visionary Dave Kelly confirmed that other explosives were used in this case, the name stuck. Also, as the trail was the bike park’s new showcase, “Beginner Line,” the name seemed apt.

A-LINE: A machine-built flowy jump line that followed B-Line’s suit, this name was an obvious choice for the new “Advanced Line.”

CRANK IT UP: On this moderate but flowy jump line, you can maximize the good times by pedalling aggressively, hence “Crank it Up.” A name starting with the letter “C” was appropriate as this trail could also be thought of as the “C-Line.”

HO CHI MINH TRAIL: This trail was designed and named by Eric Wight (owner of Whistler Backroads), who was the original mastermind and creator of lift-accessed biking on Whistler Mountain, operating there until Whistler Blackcomb took over operations in 1997. Sections of the trail ran down the middle of Lower Olympic, through grass up to 1.5-metres tall, reminiscent of scenes from the Vietnam War. HEART OF DARKNESS: This trail name builds on the Vietnam theme established by Ho Chi Minh. Plus, it can get fairly dark in the section along the creek where it is surprisingly intense for a flowy blue run.

CLOWN SHOES AND DIRT MERCHANT: Both of these trails make references to the movie Jay and Silent Bob Strike Back.

CAPTAIN SAFETY: There are conflicting reports as to which mountain employee

it was who had the healthy zeal for injury prevention—some say he was a mountain patrol higher-up, others a bike park manager. Either way, he took his job very seriously, sometimes to the dismay of trail crew. This trail is named after him.

MACKENZIE RIVER TRAIL: Named in honour of the late Duncan Mackenzie, an esteemed trail-builder and ski patroller who died tragically in an avalanche in December 2011.

ORIGINAL SIN: Named by original Bike Park manager Rob McSkimming. Multiple meanings and wordplays are at work here, but it is also considered the original trail in the Garbanzo Zone.

SCHLEYER: Named after legendary freeride mountain biker Richie Schley, while alluding to equally legendary thrash metal band, Slayer.

JOYRIDE: The name “Joyride” recurs often in Whistler. This trail was built in 1998 by local biking luminaries Chris Winter and Paddy Kaye, the latter of whom had founded his own trail-building company, also named Joyride. A few years later, a local mountain bike festival was created and called, you guessed it, Joyride. This festival was the predecessor of today’s Crankworx, whose showcase event is a slopestyle competition which still bears this name, and Kaye’s Joyride Bike Parks Inc. remains one of the leading mountain bike trail-building companies on Earth.

DEL BOCA VISTA: In yet another pop culture reference, this trail’s name is derived from the Florida condominium complex in Seinfeld where Jerry’s parents, and for a time Kramer as well, had retired to. Life here would hopefully be relaxing, fun, and leisurely, just like this trail.

ANGRY PIRATE: Trail-building entails more than just crude jokes and high fives—it also involves a lot of backbreaking work and the potential for some serious bodily harm.

One builder received this nickname after an especially unfortunate series of events while working on this trail. First, while walking through the woods he stepped on a wasp nest and angered the hive. During the ensuing chaos, he tripped and stumbled downslope, injuring his ankle, but not before he got stung by a wasp very close to his eye. These mishaps left said trailbuilder with an eyepatch, a heavy limp, and a sour mood.

DEVIL’S CLUB: While building this trail, the park crew had to contend with this

infamous coastal bush which grows dense, tough, and covered in nasty thorns.

THE “ASIAN TRILOGY”: All three of these trails were named by trail crew veteran Andrew “Gunner” Gunn: SAMURAI PIZZA CAT: Named after a popular ‘90s Japanese anime series that was also adapted for North America.

NINJA COUGAR: The trail crew liked to joke that Jesse Melamed—one of the trail-builders—required this special type of bodyguard due to his esteemed political position as the then-mayor’s (Ken Melamed) son.

KARATE MONKEY: This trail name maintains the “martial arts/animal” theme with the other two trails, but whether there is any deeper meaning is unclear.

BLUE/BLACK VELVET: Simply put, these trails were designed to ride as smoothly as possible.

BLUESEUM: This trail was built through the same section of forest as a longneglected trail full of derelict wooden structures. Riding this new trail gave the impression that you were passing through a freeride bike-stunt museum. The trail is blue-rated, and this creative portmanteau title was conceived.

AFTERNOON DELIGHT: The park crew was on fire this day, building most of this trail in a single afternoon.

FUNSHINE ROLLY DROPS: Simply the most playful, friendly-sounding name the trailbuilders could brainstorm.

DUFFMAN: Duff is a term used for the soft, thick layer of organic material often found on a Coastal forest floor. When working on this trail, the park crew had to contend with an especially thick layer of duff, and thus took the opportunity to shout out the highly enthusiastic beer mascot of The Simpsons fame.

DETROIT ROCK CITY: Some trail names come easy. This trail features a long, committing rock ride, and thus borrowing the title from the famed KISS song seemed appropriate.

FADE TO BLACK: Named after the classic Metallica song, this trail was intended to demarcate the transition from blue-rated to black-rated single-track. Let’s say the trailbuilders got a little carried away with this one, including a sizeable, mandatory road gap that is most definitely double-black material. Some riders prefer to call it “Fade to Pro Line.”

FREIGHT TRAIN: The name refers to the

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FEATURE STORY freight container stunt that bikers can jump on and off of, but the title has been further vindicated by the fact that riders have a tendency to ride this fast and flowy jump run in tight formation, like a freight train running down the tracks.

TECH NOIR: Evidently some trail-builders are fans of Arnold “The Gubernator” Schwarzenegger, as this is also the name of a bar in the original Terminator film. Cover charge is optional.

DWAYNE JOHNSON: Another memorial to the musclebound. This trail features a huge rock, and thus was a perfect opportunity to honour everyone’s favourite wrestlerturned-actor, Dwayne “The Rock” Johnson.

THE MANAGER: An optional pro line in Duffman named after then-bike-parkmanager Tom “Pro” Prochaska.

D1: The various models of excavating machines used to build the trails are named according to their size: “D35,” “D50” and so on. This trail is named after the smallest excavator in the park crew’s arsenal, the shovel, because this seemingly machinebuilt path was built completely through manual labour.

TOO TIGHT: As the name suggests, this trail is very narrow and winding. Countless riders over the years have face-planted after catching their handlebars on an adjacent tree trunk.

LITTLE ALDER: This short run cuts through a picturesque alder grove.

FATCROBAT: Among the diverse array of characters who have worked for the Bike Park over the years, one particular gentleman went through extensive gymnastics training in his youth. As his years progressed, he lost his trim figure, but retained a surprising amount of his athletic talent. This trail is named in honour of this rotund gymnast.

DROP-IN CLINIC: Named after the steep rock roll “drop-in” entrance to this short connector trail.

TOP OF THE WORLD: This name is selfexplanatory, as the first bike park trail from the summit of Whistler Mountain, a ride down here leaves one feeling elated. If this name doesn’t convey the same tone as the other bike park trails, it is because the park crew didn’t come up with this one. This trail’s construction was an exciting new attraction, and upper management wanted to convey an inspiring image to attract more visitors. n

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Awesome Andalusia:

SIPPING SHERRY IN A TRIANGLE AND WATCHING THE HORSES DANCE || STORY & PHOTOS BY VIRGINIA AULIN

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ay sherry and some think, “That’s your square with a classic carousel. Jerez is a quiet British granny’s drink.” Think again. cousin to the more touristed Seville, and One of the world’s oldest wines, we easily settle into the locals’ routine: late its evolution has been influenced breakfast of strong coffee served in a glass and by many of the world’s greatest empires toast rubbed with tomato and topped with and civilizations: the Phoenicians, Greeks, jamon (I confess, I tire of ham after several Romans, Moors, Spanish and Britain. weeks in Spain), a large lunch followed by The latter’s love affair with the siesta and dinner at outdoor cafés long past drink began at the beginning of the midnight. Spaniards are night owls.

16th century; foreign relations between The plazas are lively, but not crowded.

England and France had become strained The patrons range from senior señoras and Spain took advantage of this to make chatting over cerveza (think Golden Girls, sherry the leading wine import to Britain. Spanish-style) to children clamouring for The Spanish abolished export tax for wine cones at ice cream counters. We are delighted in Sanlúcar and gave English merchants that there are not many tourists about. preferential treatment.

Since we are here to suss out sherry, But the thick, sweet stuff that Granny Jerez, which derives from the Arabic might sip is only one version of this historic sherish and has become synonymous with fortified wine—and you can learn all about the English word sherry, is the obvious it on a visit to the “sherry triangle”: three place to start. charming towns in the southernmost part As we sip at a few bodegas, my sommelier of Andalusia. This is the driest and warmest sister, Melanie, shares her knowledge of this section of Spain, where the sun shines for “neglected wine treasure.” To be labelled more than 300 days a year and, in summer, Jerez-Xérès-Sherry (Jerez for the Spanish, temperatures can top 40°C. Xérès for what it is called in France and, of Perplexingly, the most famous sherry course, Sherry for the Brits), the wine has designation doesn’t allow any kind of to be produced according to specific rules. irrigation—but the grapes survive due to Palomino grapes, which grow well in the the lime-rich, chalk-white soil that soaks chalky soil, are fermented and then fortified up winter rain and delivers it to the vines in with a grape spirit to increase alcohol content. summer. More on that later.

As they age in barrels, a layer of flor (a yeastWe base ourselves in Jerez de la Frontera, like growth that protects the wine from the wine region’s capital, in an apartment excessive oxidation) forms. Then, wines from overlooking Plaza del Arenal, a pleasant various years are blended together before

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being bottled. The result is crisp, pale Fino. At the other end of the sherry spectrum are the dark dessert varieties, made by fermenting dried Moscatel grapes.

From Jerez, we head south west to the second point on the sherry triangle: El Puerto de Santa Maria, where we visit Osborne Bodegas, one of the oldest firms of wine and spirits in Spain. The tasting room is glamourous, with Cathedral ceilings and pale flooring—which allows the walls of bottles and the famous Toro Negro branding to stand out.

These black bulls are more than a brand. Born in a 1956 ad campaign to represent Osborne brandy, the 14-metretall, 4,000-kilogram bulls were set up along Spanish roadways. In 1994, Spain started a crackdown of roadside advertising and planned to tear down the bulls. There was a public outcry! The bulls were allowed to stay, but with adverts blacked out. Today, 91 of the 500 bulls remain. In 1994, Osborne sued other companies for using the bull image. But a judge threw out the case, declaring the bulls a national symbol that belongs to the people.

Melanie does a vintage tasting and is delighted that one of the sherries has wine from 1792. My husband opts for a flight of brandy. Given it is early afternoon, I merely sniff the spirits. Though I do succumb to a sip of “cream” sherry Mel concocts by mixing a Fino and a dessert sherry.

Sanlúcar de Barrameda, a windswept town on the Atlantic, is the third point of the sherry triangle. This is home to a special sherry, Manzanilla, known for its extra saltiness and lighter body. But you can’t drink sherry all day! And, Andalusia has 800 kilometres of coastline. So, we head to the beach, a wide expense of pale sand sloping to the clear sea, empty save for a few fishermen.

Beaches and wines are only part of what makes this part of Spain famous. There are also dancing horses! The Andalusian horse has a history more complex than sherry.

Cave paintings show horses present here as early as 20,000 BCE. Despite their ancient history, all living Andalusians trace to a small number of horses bred by religious orders in the 18th and 19th centuries.

You can see these horses in an equestrian ballet set to Spanish music at the Royal Andalusian School of Equestrian Art. Jerez is also known as the birthplace of flamenco, best seen in small sherry bars where you can sit inches from the mournful singers and foot-stomping dancers.

Dramatic as they are, it’s the horses that linger in my mind.

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COVID-19’s effects on the outdoors PEMBERTON WILDLIFE ASSOCIATION, FISHING GUIDES DISCUSS PANDEMIC’S IMPACT

BY DAN FALLOON THE EFFECTS OF THE COVID-19 pandemic are even stretching into the local wilderness.

Pemberton Wildlife Association (PWA) president Allen McEwan said that as a result of the pandemic, the group’s revenues are down, though it plans to keep up with several planned initiatives.

“The PWA will be proceeding with the Pemberton Bat Inventory Project that was started last year as it is important to gather this data for 2020,” McEwan wrote in an email document after consulting with vice-president Greg Reamsbottom and membership coordinator Carmen Stacey.

“We will also be proceeding with a nest box program for Wood Ducks.”

Other PWA operations such as monitoring the deer counter and maintaining trails is also still possible, while its archery and shooting ranges have remained open.

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“The archery and shooting ranges have remained open with the understanding that the high standards we expect from our members regarding safety while using the ranges now also include all the recommended protocols for social distancing and travel,” McEwan wrote.

nature makes it inherently likely that participants won’t be close enough to transmit the virus.

“Hunting and fishing have always been activities where ‘distancing’ from others is proper etiquette and the normal practice,” he noted.

“Hunting and fishing have always been activities where ‘distancing’ from others is proper etiquette and the normal practice.”

- ALLEN MCEWAN

In the bigger picture, though some people have more time to enjoy the wilderness at this time, McEwan said the PWA doesn’t have any additional concerns about the potential negative effects, as fishing and hunting are licensed activities with stringent rules with the caveat that BC Parks, the Conservation Officer Service (COS) and Natural Resource Officers are “chronically underfunded and short staffed.” As well, the activities’ isolated

“Many anglers, hunters, hikers and campers find the peace and solitude of being alone in nature to be one of the most enjoyable aspects of these activities, so I don’t think there’s any additional concern around distancing unless the number of outdoor users overwhelms the infrastructure. Joffre Lakes would be a prime example of that.”

McEwan added that in addition to enforcing proper behaviour in parks,

services such as BC Parks, the COS and Natural Resource Officers are fighting an uphill battle against misinformation online.

While he didn’t have a pandemic-related example, McEwan noted that people keep visiting the Meager Creek Hotspring even though it has been closed for years due to a 2010 landslide. With additional confusion around the pandemic, he imagines it’s only gotten worse.

“These ongoing violations put the users at risk (due to the lack of maintenance at the site and the instability of the area), needlessly displaces wildlife and causes strain on what little enforcement staff we have available,” he wrote in a follow-up email. “Where are these people getting their information? Clearly not from a government website.”

The PWA also has some concerns related to the ongoing pandemic in that illegal dumping may worsen, while risky backcountry activities—always discouraged—are even more ill-advised at this time.

Meanwhile, Sea to Sky fishing guides are wondering how they can safely operate.

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While not technically shut down, guides are wary of ramping up their efforts.

Brad Knowles of Pemberton Fish Finder said he may yet host some tours this summer, but they would look far different from those in prior years. With the borders closed and non-essential travel discouraged, Knowles is considering doing the previously unthinkable: focusing on local anglers.

increased COS presence to ensure anglers are following regulations.

“As long as everybody’s following the rules and regulations, there’s a healthy population of fish for everyone to enjoy,” he said, noting the Sea to Sky has several stocked lakes in case anyone is looking to catch their dinner.

Meanwhile, Clint Goyette of Squamishbased Valley Fishing Guides Ltd. is pessimistic about operating this summer with the bulk of his business coming from the U.S. “We’ll have to see what happens with the summer. I don’t believe that we’re

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“We don’t book trips like hairdressers book haircuts.

We book trips based on people coming to the region.”

- CLINT GOYETTE

“If people are going to be fishing, from Vancouver, we’re going to keep them as close to Squamish, in that area, as a day trip will allow,” he said in late April. “In the past, it’s kind of been a no-no, but these are troubled times. People still need to be outside and recreate, and I’m pretty firm with telling clients that if they see me show up in an area that the spot is my spot and they need to move on.”

Other adjustments would include meeting on site instead of providing transportation and using individual pleasure crafts to ensure that all members of the party maintained distance.

Knowles said he and his guides were coming off a strong winter of ice fishing and appreciated a bit of a shoulder-season break, but with the weather improving, there’s an itch to hit the water again. That said, as a father of four, he is adamant that he won’t resume if it’s not safe.

In his time fishing on the rivers for pleasure, Knowles has seen more people out than in past years, though he’s also seen an

going to have, unfortunately, a summer in the region that’s going to bring enough people to the region to bring back the guide fishing,” he said.

Goyette said the nature of the guiding business makes it unfeasible to transition online.

“We’re paid for our information and training in-person,” he said. “We don’t book trips like hairdressers book haircuts. We book trips based on people coming to the region.

“If there’s no people, there’s no fishing tour to be had.”

While there has been federal and provincial support announced for businesses in myriad sectors, Goyette said the structure of guiding businesses means they’re not covered.

“We don’t have paycheques, per se. It’s paid through dividends or subcontracting to assistant guides,” he said. “If you don’t have employees, you don’t qualify as a business that needs money.

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Struck while still stuck TASTY TIDBITS GLEANED IN THESE INTERESTING TIMES IT STRUCK ME the other day that I’ve learned some pretty far-out things while staying in. They cover the gamut, but essentially stem from two thankfully complementary factors: my nerdy curiosity combined with all this time on our hands.

For instance, it’s hard to imagine a day before lockdown when I would have taken

BY GLENDA BARTOSH the time to really dig into the etymology of “pyrrhic”—and I mean dig beyond a dictionary. Turns out it’s from the Ancient Greek king, Pyrrhus, whose tendency to be one of the strongest opponents to the long arms of Ancient Rome created all kinds of unacceptable heavy losses for him. Ergo “Pyrrhic victory,” which traditionally used the cap “P” in honour of old king Pyrrhus of Epirus.

As for my nerdy curiosity, it’s triggered many a fun turn in life, and these days nicely supersedes that, A) I’m not “The Domestic Type” (just ask dear hubby) and,

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B) I ain’t no foodie. In fact, the term makes me cringe, something that will come as no surprise to you if you’ve been reading this column for the past 19 years.

So ‘tis with great surprise I’ve found myself avoiding all kinds of domestic Pyrrhic victories while staying home, literally stumbling onto quiet little gems filled with both surprise and delight, and putting the lie to my initial fears that I would suffer many a heavy loss from being bored out of my home-based gourd.

Here are just a few...

1. It really is cool to wear a mask (see Richard Farnsworth, above). Well, we’ve all known that for years, we’ve just kind of forgotten it.

2. It’s totally fun to plant a lemon seed in a tin can you’ve punched a pattern of holes into the bottom of using different sized nails so it looks like a spiral staircase to heaven.

3. It’s totally possible to legally make a cake so loaded with chocolate, sugar and caffeine you get high on it. (Thank you, Ruth Reichl, for your very insane and very New York Last-Minute Chocolate Cake recipe; perfect during any lockdown—and beyond.)

4. When your melted chocolate turns into a weird blob (see No. 3) it’s seized, and, yes, you can unseize it, which is actually quite a lot of messy fun.

5. Those ancient diaper pins with the yellow plastic safety clasps, which normally would secure my passport holder inside my waistband while tromping around some place like northern Thailand (don’t think I’ll be using them for anything like

that anytime soon), can creatively secure a poorly designed kitchen hand towel to a towel rack.

6. Physical distancing requirements equal eight sourdough loaves end-to-end, based on your average 24-centimetre loaf.

Since I’m no expert on sourdough bread despite recent domestic explorations, ask Paula Lamming over at Purebread or Eileen Keenan up at Birken House Bakery just what the average length of a sourdough loaf might be. But you’ve gotta admit this is one very cool metric that the Yukon Health and Wellness Department came up with. They also say it’s about the same as staying two huskies apart (tail to tail), or the length of your average caribou, antlers included. Oh, to see such wit embedded in public directives around these here parts. The Grey Fox (alias Bill Miner) would approve.

7. Yes, those “large” eggs really are smaller. I thought they were, so thank you Naomi Powell at the Vancouver Sun for your enlightening piece on how the collapse of the tourism and hospitality sectors along with the closure of restaurants and more have pushed eggs normally bound for the commercial supply chain into the consumer one. Ergo smaller “large” eggs in your carton.

I can’t wait for a rethink of the entire food supply chain after this whole thing settles, so we can collectively figure out how to avoid all the tragic waste that happens all the time but has now been horribly exacerbated and brought into the public spotlight. No one wishes a pandemic, ever, but we won’t suffer

such Pyrrhic victories over this one if we create better paths forward.

8. When you really are a non-domestic type and don’t feel like baking but crave a piece of cake, try making my recent invention, cake-porridge. My mom recently passed along a tasty, easy recipe from an old neighbour in Edmonton (thanks to the late Anita Bazelwick!). I haven’t quite gotten around to it, but it uses a block of dates and lots of walnuts. Since those were sitting idly on the counter one morning, I grabbed some, added them to my favourite Sunny Boy porridge and, boy, what a fab invention that was. My best porridge pal, the late but great Bob Eldridge of Pemberton, would approve.

9. You really can make one small carton of homous last for four meals. It reminds me of something my dad said about eating in the navy in the Second World War: “They told us to always leave the table a bit hungry.” Makes for leaner, meaner fighters.

10. We really can entertain ourselves without our pals and loved ones, although we miss them dearly.

11. Maybe we can’t stick together, but I just learned how to stick food together.

Just go down to the beach and get some kelp, well, red kelp, actually, the source of carrageenans used to thicken everything from yogurt to sauces. But kelp, like so many other taken-for-granted things, is actually way more useful than that. More on that later.

Glenda Bartosh is an award-winning journalist who’s still digging to learn what monatomic gold is. ■

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Paint night moves online WHISTLER ARTIST ANDREA MUELLER LAUNCHES CLASSES FOR KIDS AND ADULTS

BY ALYSSA NOEL LET’S BE HONEST: there’s only so much Netflix you can watch.

If you’re ready to expand your pandemic hobbies beyond binging, Whistler artist Andrea Mueller just might have the solution for you.

She’s moving her paint night online— and adding a new art class for kids.

“This is different [than in-person paint nights] in that I’m teaching the same thing to everybody,” she says. “I’m going to do it on Zoom. It will be step by step with Q and As as we go along.”

Having just moved house and set up her new studio, the first event is set to take place with just 12 students on Thursday, May 28.

Everyone will be working on the same textured night landscape, but there is room for some artistic interpretation.

“It’s fun because it’s freeflow for the background,” Mueller adds. “You can be

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pretty experimental. You’ll be able to use a toothbrush to create stars or a sponge from the kitchen—stuff from around the house.”

One potential hurdle is students should have their own paints and brushes of any type, but Mueller said she could potentially help order some if need be.

to give back to people and I want people to feel they can be creative and provide them with the tools to do that and help them build confidence. I think it’s important we exercise our creative minds. That’s why I offered them in the past.”

To that end, Mueller is also hosting four

“ I think it’s important we exercise our creative minds. That’s why I offered them in the past.”

- ANDREA MUELLER

“I do have canvases, so they can buy canvases and pick them up at my house,” she adds.

She decided to create a sliding donation scale for the classes in hopes of making it as accessible to as many locals as possible. It ranges from $15 to the “comm’on that’s too much” price of $75.

“I don’t want to leave anybody out,” she says. “Yes, of course, it helps support my family, but, at the same time, I really want

weeks of her first-ever art lessons for kids.

“I don’t normally do kids’ classes because it’s harder to find space for kids in Whistler,” she says.

In planning the program, she reached out to a Whistler moms Facebook group to find out what age range of kids would be interested and what time of day they would tune in.

As a result, the classes will focus on seven- to nine-year-olds (though Mueller

can accommodate kids as young as six or as old as 10) and take place on Wednesdays at 9:15 a.m. for 45 minutes.

“I’m pretty excited to do it,” Mueller says. “I’m excited to connect with the kids in Whistler. I think that will be really nice.

Maybe in the future I can do some in-person classes for kids. It will all be depending on the space I can find.”

In the meantime, the classes kicked off on May 20 and run until June 10 with week one and two tapping into imaginative projects with supplies from around the house and weeks three and four focusing on painting and honing skills learned in previous weeks.

Mueller says she will add additional kids classes if there’s demand.

“I’m hoping it gives parents a bit of a break,” she says. “We’ll see how this all works. I want the parent participation to be very low.”

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NOTES FROM THE BACK ROW

Tintin & Tarantino 9 THERE ARE SOME new flicks starting to pop up on the streaming services, notably Capone, a haphazardly constructed biopic starring Tom Hardy (Warrior, Venom) as

BY FEET BANKS the infamous gangster in his later years, as memories and dementia (and syphilis) wash away his existence.

The flick itself is all over the place, and not in a good way, but Hardy goes all-in, aspiring to Nic Cage-like levels of scenery chewing. This one is worth a watch but not at $20 a rental. Especially not when you can watch The Irishman for free.

There’s also SCOOB! a new animated Scooby-Doo flick that brings almost nothing

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new to the table other than a short originstory scene about how the gang all met. Kids will be into it (kids are super easy to please) but the rest of us can take a hard pass.

A better option, if you need to scratch that cartoon itch, is to check out all three seasons of The Adventures of Tintin on Amazon Prime.

Made in the early ‘90s, the series faithfully adapts 21 of the classic Hergé books, including Tintin in Tibet, which is an interesting one because there is no real villain, just nature (and a yeti) doing its thing.

Otherwise, the province may be opening up but Quarantino continues here in the back row. This week, we’re up to 2011 and Django Unchained, Quentin’s take on the slave trade era of America’s deep south.

Set in 1858, Jamie Foxx stars as Django, a freed slave who teams up with a German bounty hunter (Christoph Waltz) to find his wife, who is being held in a plantation owned by a Calvin Candie (Leonardo DiCaprio), a mean bastard with a penchant for watching his male slaves fight to the death for sport.

Needless to say, revenge plays a role and, after a brief pause during Inglourious Basterds, Tarantino re-ups the violence for this one and posts an impressive body count.

And rightly so. In a statement at the time, Quentin said he wanted to do movies that dealt with America’s “horrible past with slavery” but he wanted to do it in a genre film rather than a standard dramatic format, drawing from the spaghetti western genre and lesser-known ‘70s flicks like Django, Mandingo, and The Great Silence.

Tarantino had dipped his toes into the styling of old Westerns before, but this is his first full kick at the can, and he boots it pretty good.

Weighing in at a hefty 165 minutes, Django became Quentin’s biggest financial success, with Waltz receiving great acclaim and numerous awards.

Not everyone was a fan, however.

Filmmaker Spike Lee had already come at Tarantino for his liberal use of the n-word in previous films and, despite “historical context,” called the film “disrespectful to my ancestors…American slavery was not a

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Others say his depiction of the horrors of slave life was anything but accurate.

In Tarantino’s defence, as a piece of revenge fantasy taken to outrageous lengths, Django plays pretty well.

The villains are villainous and the heroes heroic, and Quentin’s depiction of the KKK as bumbling fools is classic (despite the fact that the Klan didn’t really exist until the decade after this film takes place).

As usual, he can be accused of lacking subtlety but we know by now that Quentin does what he wants, critics be dammed.

(And anyone who expects him to paint inside the lines of historical accuracy need only watch the last reel of Basterds.)

DiCaprio is especially strong as the faux-gentile plantation owner, (Don Johnson shows up, too!) while Tarantino himself takes a small role, butchering his way though an Australian accent before going out with a literal bang.

Like True Romance, Django Unchained is a love story at heart, with a few hundred extra litres of blood. ■

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Free Will Astrology WEEK OF MAY 21 BY ROB BREZSNY

ARIES (March 21-April 19): “Excellence does not require

perfection,” wrote Aries author Henry James. Now I’m conveying this brilliant counsel to you—just in time for the season when it will make good sense to strive for shining excellence without getting bogged down in a debilitating quest for perfection. Have fun re-committing yourself to doing the best you can, Aries, even as you refuse to be tempted by the unprofitable lure of absolute purity and juvenile forms of idealism.

TAURUS (April 20-May 20): To generate an ounce of pure cocaine, you must collect 52 pounds of raw coca leaf and work hard to transform it. But please don’t do that. Fate won’t be on your side if you do. However, I will suggest that you consider undertaking a metaphorically comparable process—by gathering a sizable amount of raw material or basic stuff that will be necessary to produce the small treasure or precious resource that you require.

GEMINI (May 21-June 20): “The very least you can do in your life is to figure out what you hope for,” writes author Barbara Kingsolver. “And the most you can do is live inside that hope. Not admire it from a distance but live right in it, under its roof.” According to my analysis of the astrological omens, that is exactly the work you should be doing right now, Gemini. Everything good that can and should happen for you in the coming months depends on you defining what you hope for, and then doing whatever’s necessary to live inside that hope.

CANCER (June 21-July 22): The periodic arrivals of “natural disruption” in our everyday routines has a divine purpose, writes Yoruba priest Awó Falokun Fatunmbi. It is “to shake consciousness loose from complacency and rigid thinking.” To be vital, he says, our perception of truth must be constantly evolving, and never stagnant.

“Truth is a way of looking at self and World,” Fatunmbi declares. “It is a state of being rather than an act of knowing.” Many Westerners find this hard to understand because they regard truth as a “fixed set of rules or dogma,” or as a body of “objective facts.” But here’s the good news: Right now, you Cancerians are especially receptive to Fatunmbi’s alternative understanding of truth—and likely to thrive by adopting it.

LEO (July 23-Aug. 22): Novelist and war correspondent Martha Gellhorn departed this life in 1998, but she articulated a message that’s important for you to hear right now. She wrote, “People often say, with pride, ‘I’m not interested in politics.’ They might as well say, ‘I’m not interested in my standard of living, my health, my job, my rights, my freedoms, my future or any future.’”

Gelhorn added, “If we mean to keep control over our world and lives, we must be interested in politics.” In my opinion, her advice is always applicable to all of us, but it’s especially crucial for you to meditate on right now.

You’ll be wise to upgrade your interest and involvement in the big cultural and political developments that are impacting your personal destiny.

VIRGO (Aug. 23-Sept. 22): According to author and teacher Marianne Williamson, “Ego says, ‘Once everything falls into place, I’ll feel peace.’ Spirit says, ‘Find your peace, and then everything will fall into place.’” I think the coming weeks will be a favourable time for you to take Williamson’s advice seriously, Virgo.

How? By giving control of your life to Spirit as you find your peace. In saying this, I’m not implying that Ego is bad or wrong. In fact, I think Ego is a crucial asset for you, and I’m hoping that in recent months you have been lifting your Ego to a higher, finer state of confidence and competence than ever before. But right now I think you should authorize Spirit to run the show for a while. If you do, it will bless you with good surprises.

LIBRA (Sept. 23-Oct. 22): “Snatching the eternal out of the desperately fleeting is the great magic trick of human existence.” Playwright Tennessee Williams said that, and now I’m conveying his insight to you—just in time for you to dramatically embody it. According to my astrological

analysis, you now have more power than usual to accomplish this magic trick: to create something permanent in the midst of the transitory; to make an indelible mark on a process that has previously been characterized by restless permutations; to initiate a bold move that you will forever remember and be remembered for.

SCORPIO (Oct. 23-Nov. 21): In the course of his 73 years on the planet, Scorpio author Paul Valéry (1871–1945) wrote more than 20 books. But between the ages of 25 and 45, he passed through a phase he called the “great silence.” During that time, he quit writing and published nothing. Afterwards, he returned to his life’s work and was nominated 12 times for a Nobel Prize. Although your own version of a great silence is less extreme than his, I’m happy to announce that you will emerge from it sooner than you imagine.

SAGITTARIUS (Nov. 22-Dec. 21): I’m sad that my two favourite 19th-century poets were unfamiliar with each other’s poetry. Walt Whitman was 11 years older than Emily Dickinson, but didn’t know her work. Dickinson had heard of Whitman, but didn’t read his stuff. Their styles were indeed very different: hers intimate, elliptical, psychologically acute; his expansive, gregarious, earthy.

But they were alike in being the most innovative American poets of their time, and equally transgressive in their disregard for standard poetic forms. If there were such a thing as time travel, I’d send one of you Sagittarians back to set up a meeting between them.

Acts of innovative blending and creative unifying will be your specialties in the coming weeks.

CAPRICORN (Dec. 22-Jan. 19): The fictional character Sherlock Holmes (born Jan. 6, and thus a Capricorn) is a brilliant logician and acute observer who has astonishing crime-solving skills. On the other hand, according to his friend Dr. Watson, he “knows next to nothing” about “contemporary literature, philosophy, and politics.” So he’s not a well-rounded person. He’s smart in some ways, dumb in others. Most of us fit that description.

We are both brilliant and ignorant; talented and inept; interesting and boring. According to my analysis of the astrological omens, the coming weeks will be an excellent time for you to hone and cultivate the less mature aspects of your own nature. I bet you’ll reap rich rewards by doing so.

AQUARIUS (Jan. 20-Feb. 18): “People become like what they love,” observed theologian St. Catherine of Siena.

That’ll be an interesting truth for you to meditate on in the coming weeks. I suspect you will attract experiences that are clear reflections of the kind of love you have cultivated and expressed for quite some time. You’ll be blessed in ways similar to the ways you have blessed.

You’ll be challenged to face questions about love that you have not been dealing with. And here’s a promise for the future: You’ll have the opportunity to refine and deepen your approach to love so as to transform yourself into more of the person you’d like to become.

PISCES (Feb. 19-March 20): “Humanity is a mystery,” wrote author Fyodor Dostoevsky. “The mystery needs to be unravelled, and if you spend your whole life unravelling it, you haven’t wasted your time. I am studying that mystery because I want to be a complete human being.”

I love this tender perspective on the preciousness of the Great Riddle we’re all immersed in. It’s especially useful and apropos for you to adopt right now, Pisces, because you are undergoing an unusually deep and intense communion with the mystery. As you marinate, you shouldn’t measure your success and good fortune by how much new understanding you have attained, but rather by how much reverence and gratitude you feel and how stirring your questions are.

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MAY 21, 2020

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MAXED OUT

Saluting a legend A COUPLE OF WEEKS AGO , you may have noticed a full-page announcement of the End of an Era. The torch has passed. Life goes on. Change is the only constant.

There is hardly a person alive and still wearing ski boots who remembers Whistler Mountain without Bob Dufour. Bob’s been a fixture in one form or another since the early 1970s when Diamond Jim McConkey ran the ski school and he was a fresh-faced instructor.

I’m not entirely certain what position Bob is retiring from and have to admit one of the questions I regularly handled

BY G.D. MAXWELL while serving behind a Guest Relations desk was, “What exactly does Bob do at the mountain?” My stock answer was, “He runs the place.”

Of course, he didn’t; it just seemed that way. Bob was everywhere but he was nowhere like Creekside. It seemed to be a place twisted into his DNA. He was there almost every morning and certainly every weekend morning. I’m sure he was sure the place couldn’t run without him. He may have been right.

I know Bob wanted to retire with, gulp, 50 years under his belt and I know he fell short by, I believe, two. I won’t express an opinion as to why and most likely neither will he. In some ways it doesn’t matter.

Herewith are some of my favourite Bob recollections. I’d hoped to share them when I crashed his retirement party but who knows when that will be.

Riding up Peak Chair with him one day, I speculated he probably had more days and more vertical on Whistler Mountain than anyone, alive or dead. “No question,” he replied.

Then to change the subject to avoid further embarrassment, he said, as we glided over Whistler Bowl, “Bend over and look straight down between your skis. Don’t look up.”

I did.

As we suddenly approached the nearvertical wall of rock announcing the peak, it came into my restricted view so fast it felt like a body blow. “Cool, eh?” was all he said as we quickly prepared to offload. I’ve shared that experience with many guests and, like me, they’re always blown away.

Bob ambled into Guest Relations one spring day. The ski-out was largely nonexistent for the last 100 metres or so but judging from the mud spattered on the legs of Bob’s blues, he’d skied down. His voice boomed a greeting and I replied by saying, “How’s the ski-out, Bob?” “Awesome!!” Double slammers.

BOB DUFOUR PHOTO COURTESY OF COAST MOUNTAIN PHOTOGRAPHY/ COASTPHOTO.COM

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Skiing was always awesome for Bob. The only word I ever heard him use to describe skiing on days only diehards and tourists braved the elements was, “Challenging.”

I generally felt the upper management of the mountain had my back when I’d managed to disappoint—piss off—some guest because, for example, I wouldn’t comp them new skis when they scratched up their own hitting a rock somewhere on the mountain... which was largely made of rock.

But one time, a weekend warrior who was, shall we say, hard to please, was complaining about something that got stuck in his craw. I don’t remember the slight on this occasion but he wouldn’t be satisfied with any of the bromides I’d offered.

Bob, who’d slipped in and caught the last minute of this tirade, approached the gentleman and said, “Is there something I can help you with?”

Launching into his specious complaint again, Bob cut him off in mid-sentence, saying, “Let me see your pass.”

Unclipping the gent’s season pass from his lanyard, Bob walked it over to the counter, handed it to me and said, “Refund this guy’s pass. I’m sure he’ll be happier skiing some place else.”

Dumbfounded doesn’t begin to describe the expression on the whiner’s face. Stumbling over his words, he literally shouted, “No. I don’t want a refund.”

Bob wouldn’t have it. “We don’t seem

to be able to please you. Maybe some other resort will.”

After some frantic seconds, Bob returned the man’s pass to him, promising we’d try to do better. I never saw him again except when he came in to buy next season’s pass. With no complaint.

But my favourite Dufour story exemplifies the credo Whistler Blackcomb used to operate under: Exceed our guests’ expectations.

In early March one year, a Creekside regular wandered in late in the afternoon.

He said he had a special request. He was going to turn 60 in two weeks and really, really wanted to ski 60,000 vertical feet that day. He wondered if that would be possible.

I told him I didn’t know and would have to crunch some numbers, suggesting he proceed to Dusty’s, have a beer and drop back in afterward. I figured his best bet would be yo-yoing Garbanzo Chair since it had maximum vertical and minimum lineups. But assuming it ran at full speed, he was on the first gondy out of Creekside in the morning and skied non-stop, he’d still come up short.

I hated the idea of telling him that.

When he came in, beaming with anticipation, I broke the bad news to him.

He didn’t complain, didn’t whine, just said, “I didn’t think so.”

And then, in the best Hail-Mary tradition, I said, “Hold on. Let me see if

there’s a rabbit in this hat.”

I called Bob. He answered. “Bob, I have a kind of strange request. A long-time Creekside skier wants to try and ski 60,000 vertical on his 60th birthday in two weeks.

I’ve crunched the numbers for Garbanzo and he’ll fall short. Do you have any id...”

Not waiting for the rest of the sentence, Bob shouted into the phone, “Have him meet me at G1 (Village Gondy) at 5 a.m. on his birthday. We’ll go up with patrol. I’ll have some headlamps and a radio and we’ll do laps on the gondy until the mountain opens.

Then I’ll have the guys run Garbo at full speed and give him priority if there’s a line.”

Click.

At 3 p.m. that day, the man wandered into Creek GR, grinning from ear to ear. I looked up, he said, “63,000!”

That was Bob. But it was also Whistler, Blackcomb and Whistler Blackcomb. Aside from our terrain, it was the attitude—that we would do almost anything to exceed our guests’ expectations—that made WB No. 1, epic before that word was a trademark.

Whether such an attitude exists today is open to debate. But Bob walked the talk.

He lived the dream. And I look forward to seeing him in the coming seasons, although I’m sure many people will think he’s still working.

Feel free to share your Bob stories with Pique. Hard to have skied here very long without having a few. n

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