Pique Newsmagazine 2722

MAY 28, 2020 ISSUE 27.22

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CRANKED OUT

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Crankworx and GranFondo—cancelled

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ADVENTURE DIFFERENTLY TW grateful for provincial funds as it rethinks summer

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SLCC SONGS

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at new album Songs From Our Nation

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THIS WEEK IN PIQUE

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Dirt Designations: Part 2 More stories behind the names of Whistler’s mountain bike trails. - By Dan Falloon

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LETTERS TO THE EDITOR

Letter writers this week

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AWARD WINNERS

Whistler Mountain Ski Club was well

share their stories of Whistler Blackcomb’s Bob Dufour, who has retired, and ask what

represented with four winners as Alpine Canada handed out its year-end ski racing

can we do to re-invent the resort as we come out of COVID-19.

awards.

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CRANKED OUT

The resort loses two major biking events for the

SLCC SONGS

Some of the voices behind Songs From Our Nation

summer of 2020 as Crankworx and RBC GranFondo, which was to double as the UCI Gran

Vol. 3, which is available now, offer a behind-the-scenes peek into making the new

Fondo World Championships, announce Whistler cancellations.

album.

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TASK MASTERS

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MAXED OUT

Max argues that Vail Resorts is keeping money that

with COVID-19 re-launch and response task force to promote economic, social and

does not belong to it by failing to offer 100-per-cent refunds to those who did not use

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The buzz on bees IF WE HAVE BEEN ABLE , most of us have been spending a lot more time outside as we spread out in Phase 2 of B.C.’s re-opening plan for COVID-19.

And, for the last several weeks, people have been re-discovering the joys and trials of gardening as well with self-isolation keeping us close to home. Whether it’s in your backyard, on your deck, or in a community plot, it feels like tilling our bit of soil helps keep the monsters at bay.

I am fortunate enough to have a yard, which is pretty low maintenance in general as there just doesn’t seem to be enough hours in the day to truly work some magic in it. But it has two plants I have tended and talked to and loved over the years—large,

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bushy, purple heather shrubs.

In these past two months of having to work from home, I find myself going out to the backyard to root out a few weeds almost every day, and to visit the heather. On one of those days—a sunny one not too long

Coincidentally, this past week we celebrated the United Nation’s (UN) World Bee Day, which fell on May 20—all this got me buzzing about how our pollinators are doing and what I could do to help, beyond the heather.

World Bee Day was proclaimed by the UN starting in 2018 to raise awareness and action in support of bees and their role as pollinators. More than two-thirds of food crops we eat need native bees, honeybees and other pollinators to successfully produce a crop. All around the world, intensified agriculture with its related loss of habitat, and massive increase in pesticide and herbicide use, has taken a toll on the bee population—including in Canada.

And just this past February, researchers published findings in the journal Science which showed a decline in some bumblebee species by 46 per cent across North America and 17 per cent in Europe relative to a baseline period of 1901 to 1974 due to climate change and other factors.

We have been reading about bee and pollinator declines for several years now, with campaigns launched by high-profile organizations like the UN, Friends of the Earth, the David Suzuki Foundation and others to raise awareness and demand

“Your home and its yard have been your refuge during COVID-19. We’re asking you to share that refuge with native bees.

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ago—I found myself just standing there staring at the heather and listening. At first I thought I was finally losing it in lockdown.

But as I adjusted I realized that yes, indeed, the heather was alive and it was humming— those two plants were covered in a whole variety of bees.

I’m sure those bees have been coming to the heather for years, but I have never taken the time to really notice.

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action by governments, farmers, everyone.

Beyond creating change at the government level, the focus of the groups is very much on getting all of us to create spaces that attract pollinators, including bees.

“Your home and its yard have been your refuge during COVID-19. We’re asking you to share that refuge with native bees,” said Beatrice Olivastri, CEO of Friends of the Earth, Canada this week. “COVID-

19 has made us even more aware of food security and the importance of locally grown produce. Honeybees are the world’s tiniest livestock, living in hives managed by beekeepers ... But Canada’s 850-plus wild, native bees are mainly solitary, ground nesting and on their own for survival. They need your help. Please offer them refuge in your yard.”

And this is something we can all do now—even on your deck—even though we are locked down. In fact, doing it might even give you a bit if a lift, as it did our family.

Fortunately, our garden already has the awesome heather. To that we added a bee pond—a flat dish with a few rocks in it that pollinators can land on and drink from and wash and we have a bee hotel too (though we have to do some renovating to make it work—see davidsuzuki.org/queen-of-green/ choose-best-mason-bee-home-make-one).

We are letting our dandelions bloom on the outskirts of our green spaces and I’m planting some more bee-friendly plants such as yarrow, cornflower, perennial asters and calendula.

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Stay the course in Canada I read your column about reopening and you raise some good points (Pique, “How do we put out the welcome mat?,” May 14).

The messaging is key.

Here in France, we are in “deconfinement,” which means many shops are open and we no longer need an official “attestation” to move, but we are limited to 100 kilometres, and we may not leave the département (administrative region).

Down there on the street, people act as if [COVID-19] is mostly over—physical distancing was respected by 50 per cent of the people in the supermarket yesterday.

I watch people high-five and walk with friends without distance or masks.

My daughter is back in school. Her bubble went from three to over 60.

I think France, which has overtaken Spain for total deaths, will likely overtake Italy.

Why? Two things: Messaging has been weak and French people never listen to anything—a double-edged sword.

I take more care now that people are moving about than before when I was [living] alone on a hillside.

I like the idea of a COVID-19 force that patrols Whistler and makes kind suggestions to the people you need to visit. This could be an employment opportunity for local students and people out of work in the local economy.

Stay healthy.

Tim Morch // France (Editor’s note: Tim is one of Pique’s regular travel writers and is riding out the pandemic in France.)

Thanks Whistler!

Tomorrow (Friday, May 29) marks 10 years since I first moved to Whistler. That’s 120 months! It’s been a magnificent decade.

I first stepped into town during the postOlympic lull of damp and cold shoulder season; half the businesses in town were closed and it snowed on Canada Day … but like many who chose to build a life here, I trusted the magic of Whistler, and stayed.

Everyone I met here was so incredibly kind.

It blew my mind that people went over and above expectations every time, in every way. I

felt welcomed here with a barrage of kindness and positivity and enthusiasm for living.

Now, 10 years later, I’ve put down roots, have a little family at home, and a huge family in the people of this town. My outlook on life has been shaped and changed for the better by the intentionality of the people here. Thank you!

To show my gratitude towards this beautiful town and the amazing community who make it what it is, I’m committing to making 120 random acts of kindness towards people, businesses and services over the next month, one for every fabulous month I’ve called Whistler home.

I’m inviting anyone reading this to join in: Help keep the positive attitude of Whistler, don’t spread COVID-19—instead spread love and kindness in a thousand small and practical ways, by supporting local businesses, being kind to each other, and going above and beyond in any way you can.

Thanks Whistler; here’s hoping for another wonderful 10 years.

Nina Moore // Whistler

Clean-up thanks I wanted to pass along a huge thank you to Ken

Melamed and Natalie (she didn’t want to give her last name) for cleaning up the enormous pile of garbage left in the Wedge parking lot.

This pile was not limited to a destroyed camper. [There were also] bed frames, mattresses and a lot more: gross!

These two community-minded individuals took it upon themselves to clean this mess up when no one else would do it. You both rock!

Lesley Clements // Whistler

A new blueprint for Whistler?

Thanks to Vince Shuley for initiating a conversation that is on the tip of everyone’s tongues in his column “Taking advantage of a hard reset” (Pique, May 14). I hope it ignites a cultural course correction that I feel is necessary for the town and its residents to survive and thrive.

Shuley and I share much in common, but how we ended up in Whistler is where our stories diverge. Shuley came here as a “wideeyed traveller in [his] 20s,” a story probably similar to the majority of those who now call this place home. For me, I can’t remember the state of my eyes, just the big animal cutouts at Ski Scamps towering over me that left an

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impression I can recall with vivid clarity over 30 years later. I also remember my parents dropping my friends and I off at the Rainbow Theatre and Mountain World without any tracking device in our pocket. A few years later, we had graduated to the skate park where I chalked up life’s first ollie, beer, and kiss.

I crossed over from “regional visitor” to “resident” while on summer break from university, camping out in Lot 4 with a small community of other dirtbags well before #vanlife was trending. We never faced any heat for the entire five months there. Eventually, I found my way within four walls, and although I still am yet to have my name on a property title, I have now called Whistler home for longer than any other community over my lifetime.

Although having been “over it” more times than I can recall, Whistler is still an incredible place with untapped potential that keeps me from moving on. The vast room for improvement is what excites me about the future. Now that the industry has disappeared and we are forced to innovate or die, we as a community will have to rewrite some of the unwritten rules that hang over this town.

I have a few suggestions for those willing to listen, and it is my sincere hope for us all to use our collective energy into bringing about a sea change in attitudes toward the resident-visitor relationship.

In my mind, it means winning back the loyalty of others like me, those who aren’t too far away and whose childhood memories are full of touchstone moments that took place in the Whistler Valley. Once regarded as not contributing enough to the tourism “machine” (as our former mayor metaphorized), the “brown baggers” are the ones who will re-breathe life into the local economy.

No longer can we create services where both customers and the staff carrying out the service feel ripped off, but put up with the prices and wages because, well, it’s Whistler. Eventually, those types of people move on to the next line of their bucket list.

We need repeat customers and staff, first and foremost. To put it more succinctly—exploitative prices and wages need to go. Without consistent repeat business and less reliance on seasonal employees, it will be nearly impossible for tourism to thrive.

Furthermore, Whistler needs to get out of the mindset that anything worth seeing while on vacation begins at the Callaghan and ends at the heliport. Such a mindset creates artificial barriers to growth. The region has

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exploded in popularity and the communities of Squamish and Pemberton have their own unique complementary charm. We must see the whole corridor as tourism allies and not competitors.

Working with other communities does not mean fighting over a finite piece of pie; it’s everyone contributing their own ingredients to make the pie both larger and tastier.

Creativity and diversity in what we offer guests can improve with production of these offerings being a bit closer to home. The first example of this would be in allowing food trucks, carts, etc. to thrive in town. A lower overhead allows entrepreneurs to carry more risk, and as a result the culinary creativity has space to innovate. Who knows, maybe Whistler will have the next Belgian waffles or Philly cheesesteak.

I could see a cannabis-infused, plant-based energy bar becoming the Nanaimo bar of a fit and “woke” generation.

It might anger some restaurant owners, but how many restaurants are locally owned?

And how many of those have already amassed an impressive fortune? Odds are their profits would continue; the trade-off of a slightly smaller fortune being a more diverse, accessible, and affordable food culture that could fast develop a worldwide reputation, and again a bigger pie for all to share.

I hope that people take this time to remember how Whistler was truly built.

Venture capital and government bailout might have erected some buildings, but the town’s soul came from sweat, passion, a love for the outdoors, and a generous amount of psychedelics.

We now have a chance to go back to the ideals that were here before the green-eyed monster cast its shadow across the valley.

I’m hopeful. I ask and encourage all genuine stakeholders of this valley to join together in redrafting the blueprint for our collective future. If so, I’ll tell my friends and family down the road that Whistler has gone back to what they remember.

Steve Andrews // Whistler

A community of helpers I would like to put out a thank you to a few special people who gave to the Whistler Food Bank.

First to Whistler Wood Fired Pizza, which donates one slice of pizza from all of their sales. They have been visiting local communities and selling their pizzas and then coming by and dropping off full pizzas for food bank clients. [On] May 22, they set up in the parking lot and baked fresh pizzas for our clients. One client said, “I have seen that food truck and always wanted to try one of their pizzas.” He was so grateful and walked away with a smile on his face.

On Wednesday, I had a young guy come by and ask what we needed as he was going to the grocery store, I replied “milk.” So he came back and dropped off milk for the clients. Then another guy, a bylaw officer, overheard me, and we went off and bought milk for the food bank.

It warms my heart.

People drive by the parking lot, roll down their window and have a $20 in their hand— “here you go,” they say.

The other day, a man who didn’t seem to have much rode his bike by and pulled the change out of his pocket to give to us. Wow.

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Saluting Bob Dufour’s retirement I am writing this letter in response to Max’s most recent post about Bob Dufour (Pique, “Maxed Out,” May 21).

I have to say that I am one of the longerterm residents who have not had the pleasure of [Bob Dufour’s] acquaintance—although we may have met once or twice in my 27-year tenure here. I regret to say that Max and I are not acquaintances either—it’s me—I do not get out much.

That aside, when I saw Bob’s picture on Max’s page, I thought—oh no, lost another one. As I read on I realized, to my relief, that this was not in fact the case. It seems to me that lately we have been celebrating the lives of those we have recently been lost, and when I read this article, I started to relax, and enjoy the few stories that I read about him.

Clearly, [Dufour is] a larger-than-life type, whose life deserves celebrating before “his time.” The story that hit home for me was the one about the 60-year-old guy who wanted to celebrate his birthday by doing 60K of vertical on his birthday—and Bob made it happen.

This is a legendary story, but I feel that it should be a baseline approach. I think if I were in Dufour’s shoes, I might have done the same thing, if it were within my power. This is grist to the Whistler story.

The other incident about the unhappy fellow who didn’t know the mountain was actually made of rock, and rocks can hurt skis— and couldn’t be appeased, was entertaining as well. Sometimes the passive aggressive approach is the only way to deal with a fullblown [jerk].

Anyway, thanks Max. I read your column often, and agree with almost all of what you have to say, and as I said before, I am glad that we can continue to enjoy and celebrate the lives of the interesting people of our town while they are still with us.

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A bruiser of a story Very nice tribute to Bob Dufour in “Maxed Out,” but I need to tell you it may have not happened (Pique, May 21).

Back in probably 1977 (happy to be corrected by a year or two), myself, Bob Dufour, and the rest of the Summer Camp crew were building the seasonal T-bar on the Glacier.

This was before Dave Murray took it over and it was still the Toni Sailer Summer Ski Camp.

A Ford engine was delivered by helicopter early June and we were pulling it up onto the bottom station frame with cables. Something went wrong and the engine swung out and pinned Bob against the concrete foundation of the bottom terminal.

All I remember is a lot of black and blue bruising over the next few days. All the best, Bob, and glad you were in such good shape that you made it through that day and many more.

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What is our new normal supposed to look like?

PICTURE IT: It’s the first week of May 2020.

I’ve been self-isolating for approximately 38,672 days, the month of April felt like a week, and my wardrobe consists solely of sweatpants. I’ve already downloaded TikTok, then deleted it after a truly horrifying three-hour-long deep dive into the #foryoupage, the algorithm for which has puzzled users.

BY MEGAN LALONDE I’m working from home six days each week, which means I’m usually on a computer from the time I wake up until the time I fall asleep, aside from my weekly grocery shopping excursions and the occasional walk/run/bike ride to remind myself what mountains look like.

Both my home container of Lysol wipes and my car container of Lysol wipes are starting to run low.

Life in early-May is a vast departure from my pre-pandemic routine, but I’m hanging in there.

By that I mean I’m pushing the limits of what’s considered sane and my eyes are starting to strain from staring at screens, but I feel at least somewhat comforted

by the fact that I’m following the rules; I’m keeping myself and others safe from a scary virus that is without a doubt lingering on every single surface outside my apartment door. (Told ya I went bonkers.)

What I couldn’t tell you is how often over those 38,672 days I wished everything would just go back to normal.

Then, all of a sudden, a light flickered on at the end of the tunnel. On May 6, B.C. Premier John Horgan announced some businesses could begin reopening on May 19, as the second phase of the province’s restart strategy kicked off.

“This is not a return to normal,” he said at the time. “This is a new normal.”

While I expected to be stoked at the prospect of drinking on patios again, my gut reaction surprised me. Instead of excitement, my brain started ping-ponging between “It’s about time!” to “It’s too soon!”

How could quarantine be ending already? I haven’t baked a single loaf of sourdough, planted a vegetable garden, or tie-dyed a sweatshirt yet. More importantly, people are still falling ill and dying from the virus, based on B.C.’s daily health briefings.

Since that announcement, businesses continue to gradually reopen and restrictions slowly but surely continue to ease, all while my thoughts about it continue to ping-pong.

I know that only a tiny fraction of B.C.’s

population is currently sick with this virus and the risk is generally low. But after being told for weeks on end that certain behaviour is risky or discouraged, adjusting to the fact that it’s now all of a sudden OK is trickier than I expected.

I get that our “normal” moving forward will be new, but I’m still unclear as to what, exactly, that entails.

For example, parks are open and we’re encouraged to go outside, but as we’ve all seen from last weekend’s Trinity Bellwoods

am I going to be a ball of anxiety and spend half my workout Lysol-wiping dumbbells?

Can I have a raging indoor house party as long as I invite fewer than 50 people?

(That last one was a trick question. Please don’t do that).

Over the past couple of weeks, I’ve definitely eased up on the hardcore isolation. I’ve seen a couple of friends outdoors, I’ve been to coffee shops, I worked an afternoon from Pique’s office, and even went over to a friend’s house.

Best of all, I gladly gave in to her dog’s demands for attention after months of ignoring every dog I passed on the Valley Trail.

Those are the things I’m currently comfortable with. I’m sure that list will grow slightly as the weeks go on, but for now my desire to keep my anxiety levels low are outweighing my desire to lift a barbell or be blonde again.

The point I’m trying to make is that this pandemic is confusing for everyone, and won’t get any less confusing as society slowly reopens. Give yourself time to adjust, do your best to follow public health officials’ guidelines and support our local businesses—but go easy on yourself and others. Do what’s necessary to keep your health, both physical and mental, in check.

Unless that’s throwing a house party.

Seriously, don’t do that. ■

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Crankworx Whistler, RBC GranFondo cancelled for 2020 RESORT LOSES PAIR OF MAJOR BIKING EVENTS IN RECENT DAYS

BY DAN FALLOON TWO OF WHISTLER’S stalwart events are officially off the calendar for 2020.

The Crankworx World Tour announced on May 26 that provincial restrictions on event sizes will prevent the festival from running as planned from Aug. 5 to 16, while on May 21, the RBC GranFondo Whistler, which was set to serve as the UCI Gran Fondo World Championships, announced its cancellation for similar reasons.

“I want these things as much as anybody else,” Provincial Health Officer Dr. Bonnie Henry said in her May 25 media conference discussing summer events in general. “The purpose behind [the restrictions] is to try and make sure that we can effectively contain this virus and it is by effectively containing this virus that we can get our economy and all of our industries going again.

“So I can’t give you a specific time [about when events will be able to start up again] but we will of course be re-evaluating and we are looking at it in periods … and then we can reassess things again.”

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In both cases, Crankworx and GranFondo organizers said that postponing to later this year was not feasible.

“The provincial guidelines are pretty clear on what we can and can’t do this summer, and we’re pretty supportive of those guidelines,” Crankworx general manager Darren Kinnaird said. “Safety is always the

“Things are looking good over there. It could be a wild fall of mountain bike action if everything holds,” he said. “From all indications we’re getting from the team we work with in Innsbruck, things are looking positive ... Hopefully it continues to go in that direction and we’ll be able to run a festival in Innsbruck.”

“Safety is always the No. 1 thing for us when it comes to Crankworx and the Crankworx community.”

- DARREN KINNAIRD

No. 1 thing for us when it comes to Crankworx and the Crankworx community.

“Not being allowed to have gatherings over 50 people, or events over 50 people, kind of makes it hard to do Crankworx Whistler.”

Kinnaird said he doesn’t expect this year’s cancellation to affect the festival’s long-term viability.

“There should be no issues with that whatsoever,” he noted.

The planned second stop on the tour in Innsbruck, Austria, initially set for June, was previously postponed to run from Sept.

30 to Oct. 4 and, according to Kinnaird, is still on track to go ahead as planned.

Meanwhile, the RBC GranFondo Whistler, which was getting set to host North America’s first-ever UCI Gran Fondo World Championships, will not go forward on Sept. 12.

“To be completely transparent, it has been an emotional roller coaster,” race founder and GranFondo Canada president Neil McKinnon said on May 22. “The RBC GranFondo Whistler and particularly the World Championships is very aspirational.

People train, people plan, and this happens over years. It transforms people’s lives, so we take it very seriously.

“Even up to May 5, we were so hopeful,

but we certainly understand and agree with the position of the provincial government and health authorities.

“It’s disappointing, but under these circumstances, we agree that the most important thing is to get a handle on [the virus] so that we can eradicate it or control it.”

Belgium-based UCI Gran Fondo World Series manager Erwin Vervecken echoed McKinnon in saying that provincial regulations effectively prohibited the event from running as planned.

“It’s not a UCI decision. We just had to adapt our rules and regulations,” he said on May 26.

McKinnon noted that many of the European qualifiers are held in the spring and were among the first to go, making the World Championships unlikely to happen.

“We knew the writing was on the wall throughout the year for the World Championships particularly, as all the qualifying events were cancelled,” he said.

“When some of them were postponed, they were postponed until after the Championships.”

Those registered for the race will be granted a free transfer into either the 2021 or 2022 events, with more details to be revealed in the months to come.

“We’ll do things on a case-by-case basis, but as you can imagine, when we have thousands of people registering, which we did, we have to create policy,” McKinnon

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said. “We’ve gone beyond the industry standard, which is deferral by one year.

We’re certainly a reasonable organization.

We’ll take instances case by case.”

Vervecken said that though the event can’t be held in Canada this year, it is looking to find another way of holding the World Championships elsewhere to reward the riders who qualified at one of six races held earlier this season.

“We would like to still have a World Championships in 2020, so we are looking now at options to move them to a later moment in the year. Of course, it’s not possible then in Canada anymore because of the cold and the daylight hours,” he said, noting the UCI is in discussions with three organizers.

McKinnon said on May 21 that he was unsure as to whether the RBC GranFondo Whistler will serve as the UCI World Championships in 2021 or another year in the future, adding that he and fellow organizers have created the legacy of planning to this point and haven’t given up on welcoming the World Championships down the line.

Vervecken, however, said that the World Championships have already been awarded for the next three years, though the B.C. team is welcome to reapply to host in 2024 or beyond.

“The first option is 2024 and if Neil wants to be a candidate for that, he knows the procedure,” Vervecken said. “It’s logically not possible to postpone it for a year because the people who have been awarded [the event] for 2021 have been working on these World Championships and have made some investments in these events.”

While acknowledging that the UCI has a lot on its plate with numerous events in several different disciplines and that it needs events to happen to make money, McKinnon said he had hoped for more help from the governing body in navigating the crisis.

“I’m a bit disappointed in the UCI in that they weren’t proactive in working with us to create opportunity, but in the end, I think everybody understood what was going on,” he said. “The challenge that we found was we have a duty of obligation to participants, not only our local backyard, but international participants who are coming.

“We just felt that we were waiting for some leadership—and we’re still waiting for

some leadership. It’s been a bit challenging.”

McKinnon, meanwhile, said that stakeholders and sponsors have been supportive and have continued the relationship into 2021.

“We’re a very robust event business. It’s what we do,” he said. “We are very viable going into 2021.”

As a large event welcoming roughly 5,000 riders, McKinnon said that when it returns, it likely won’t look the same as it did in years prior.

“We suspect that there will be new normals,” he said. “If anybody’s got the capacity to adjust, it’s us, because all we do are cycling events. We’re already starting to make plans for a triumphant return in 2021, and as such, if we need to adjust in any way, we’ll work with our stakeholders and obviously our health authorities to ensure that we’re following proper protocols.”

At the time of Pique’s interview with Vervecken five days after the cancellation, the UCI had not shared news of the cancellation on its website or social media channels. Vervecken said though the UCI had been working with the local organizers on an announcement, it was released before they signed off on it, and they will release their own statement at a later date.

Karen Goodwin, Tourism Whistler’s vice president of destination and market development, said the current climate means that Whistler’s summer lineup will look much different than it has in the past.

“News of Crankworx and GranFondo cancelling their Whistler events is certainly understandable given the circumstances, and we look forward to their return in 2021 (when it is safe to do so),” she said in a statement.

“Events are typically a strong driver of visitation during our peak summer months and add to the overall vibe in the resort. But as we know, this is going to be a very unique summer in Whistler, both in terms of resort experience and visitor demographics.”

Mayor Jack Crompton said in his own statement: “Both the Crankworx Mountain Bike Festival and RBC GranFondo Whistler have been staples of Whistler’s summer calendar for many years. The first Crankworx was produced in 2004, and the inaugural RBC GranFondo Whistler occurred in 2010. We look forward to both of these events returning to Whistler in the future.” n

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Contract awarded for key Valley Trail linkage CONNECTION FROM ALTA LAKE ROAD TO FUNCTION JUNCTION TO BE COMPLETED BY OCTOBER

BY BRADEN DUPUIS WORK ON AN important Valley Trail connection is set to get underway after Whistler council awarded a contract worth $1.5 million to Capilano Highway Services for the project at its May 26 meeting.

The 1.8-kilometre stretch of lit, paved Valley Trail will connect Alta Lake Road to Lynham Road at the east end of Function Junction, serving as an active transportation route for workers—and as a secondary evacuation route in case of emergency.

“In the event that the highway is closed down in that south end of town, the trail is load rated for traffic and for fire truck loads,” said capital projects manager Tammy Shore in a presentation to council.

“So it’s an important evacuation route for the south end of Whistler.”

Included in the contract is work to upgrade a sewer trunk, including raising 16 manhole elevations above flood levels and providing access for maintenance.

“The benefits of doing this part of the sewer trunk upgrade, the manholes, is to prevent infiltration into the trunk so we don’t have to deal with increased volumes at the wastewater treatment plant end,” Shore said.

KEY CONNECTION A new Valley Trail connection that will link Alta Lake Road to Function Junction is set for construction this summer.

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“And it also reduces the occurrence of these manholes getting flooded out and having an effluent spill into the water courses, being Millar and Sproat creeks.

That’s not a good thing when that happens.”

The total two-year cost of the project— including all administrative costs, bridges over Millar and Sproat creeks and a 10-per-cent contingency—is $2,132,875, all from provincial Resort Municipality Initiative funds.

Councillor Duane Jackson asked several questions related to the cost following the presentation, including (but not limited to) the funding split between project budgets, the cost of the lighting and the source of the

gravel used.

While it’s a good investment to build the “critical” trail, and he didn’t intend to question the tender, “the tender went out prior to oil prices crashing and COVID, and everything else, and technically, based on the budget that was presented to us, it was over budget,” Jackson said.

“So is there an opportunity to either retender it, or go back and negotiate given that it’s over budget?”

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Capilano was the lowest of five bidders, narrowly edging out Corona Excavations by just $22,780.

“I feel like we had a very good health check there, on the market,” Shore said. “I think we got a very good price for the project.”

The project team has also applied for a BC Active Transportation grant worth up to $500,000 to offset the costs (recipients are expected to be announced in the coming weeks).

The project was made possible by a 2018 land swap that added the 40-hectare Prism lands to the municipal portfolio (see Pique, Feb. 2, 2019: “Prism deal a rare ‘win-win’”).

“Ever since we acquired this property, this project, for me, has been a really important piece to transportation, recreation, fire protection, and the list goes on,” said Mayor Jack Crompton.

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Secondhand shops continue offering deals RE-USE-IT CENTRE, VELVET UNDERGROUND AND DEJA VOGUE TAKE PRECAUTIONS AS THEY OPERATE OR GET SET TO REOPEN

THE RE-USE-IT Centre is making plans to reopen in June.

“There’s going to be an organized schedule for neighbourhoods [to drop off donations] for the first couple months to get the ball rolling so we’re not inundated,” said Whistler Community Services Society (WCSS) interim executive director Lori Pyne.

“All the neighbourhoods will know what their day is.”

Pyne said the store would start accepting donations on May 29, but added the Re-Build-It Centre has no planned return date as the WCSS plans to use the space to support its other operations. (Keep an eye on mywcss.org for developments.)

Drop-offs will now be done in a drive-by fashion, with coordinators directing traffic.

Pyne said donations should be clean and sorted, while items such as furniture, books, and cardboard are not being accepted at this time due to a lack of storage.

With the caveat that there are many variables at play, Pyne said the Re-Use-It Centre is targeting a June 14 reopening with WorkSafe BC and Ministry of Health regulations in place.

There will be no public washrooms or

change rooms available, and items will be quarantined for three days when they are dropped off.

With fewer people in store, Pyne is unsure of how much money will come in.

“The profit from the store is how we run our organization, and it will be interesting to see how it affects the revenue,” she said.

“Sometimes, there’s 50 people in the store buying and if we can’t do that, it’s going to affect our bottom line, for sure.

“We don’t know what the comfort of the public will be to go shopping, but we are also aware that we offer low-cost goods to the community.

“We want to get that service going again.”

Function Junction’s two secondhand shops are both selling their wares, but taking different approaches.

At The Velvet Underground Shop, owner Amy Rafferty made a quick pivot to the internet, finding a way to sell the shop’s vintage goods online.

“We transitioned immediately to online and the first month, we just had so much support from people,” she said. “I don’t know if they actually wanted anything or if they just wanted to support small business, so they were stoked that they could find things that they could buy.”

Rafferty said the shop saw support

from across the country and even some international orders.

“I think they might have been people that lived in Whistler that knew the business and were shopping,” she said, adding that she gave locals the option of picking up at the store or having items delivered.

Even before the pandemic, Rafferty had looked at branching out into selling thrift items, noting that with the Re-Use-It Centre temporarily discouraging donations, several locals diverted their unwanted items to the shop. Rafferty put all items in storage for two weeks and then held its inaugural Cheap Frills thrift-shop pop-up earlier this month.

“My main motivation for this is to recycle clothing and to try to reduce our environmental impact,” she said, noting that since she wasn’t eligible for government support, the donations were essentially a “grant” to help the shop.

Rafferty implemented an online booking system that allowed three people per 20-minute slot, with all 63 slots filling up each day. During the sale, the odd customer tried on an item, many took their purchases as is.

“Everyone was so cool. They did their shopping in 20 minutes—a power shop— and out they went,” she said.

Velvet Underground is open on Fridays and Saturdays with a maximum of 10 people

allowed in at a time.

Over at Deja Vogue Boutique, owner Therese Lundgren said she closed for regular business after Whistler Blackcomb closed but has quietly remained open by appointment.

Lundgren said she enjoys having conversations with people and the in-person aspect of retail, so she is not inclined to do online sales and instead went into “hibernation.”

“If the retail industry is going to turn me into a mini-Amazon, I’m not too interested in being in retail,” she said.

Though she’s losing money, Lundgren said she has savings and, as a consignment store, trades more work for fewer overhead costs.

Lundgren limits the number of people in store at any given time, has hand sanitizer onsite, accepts e-transfers and has asked customers feeling sick to return when they are better. Customers are allowed to try on clothes and she communicates the situation to customers as they enter to ensure they are comfortable.

“I’ve definitely noticed that people are very happy when I open up the doors,” Lundgren said. “People are just happy to see some liveliness in Function Junction.

“Some people just need a place to come and chat, though I don’t give out hugs like I normally do.” n

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TW preps reimagined marketing campaign for COVID times PROVINCE PROPS UP DESTINATION MARKETERS WITH $10M GRANT

BY BRADEN DUPUIS DESTINATION marketing organizations across B.C.—Tourism Whistler (TW) included—are getting COVID-19 relief in the form of a $10-million grant from the province.

In Whistler, the grant amounts to $1.4 million to help cover operational and staffing costs through October, said TW president and CEO Barrett Fisher.

“It was extremely welcome news, during this unprecedented financial crisis,” Fisher said, adding that she wanted to acknowledge the province for the “extremely generous” support.

“Without a doubt, this is helping us rebuild Whistler’s tourism economy for the benefit of our members and for the local community,” she said.

While the provincial grant is meant to help tourism communities cope with the loss of municipal and regional district tax funds, Fisher said projected losses are still only forecasts at this time.

“I’m not in a position to confirm those numbers. What we do know is that we are anticipating losses in the millions of dollars,” she said.

The grant will allow TW to start bringing back team members (60-per-cent of whom were laid off in March) who can “impact our immediate programs and our immediate markets, and help us to roll out some very thoughtful and measured recovery programs as we look to restart Whistler’s tourism economy,” she added.

To that end, TW has been hard at work imagining what Summer 2020 looks like in Whistler, surveying residents, guests and businesses to help inform a new COVID-era marketing campaign.

“The theme will be ‘Adventure Differently,’” Fisher said.

Under that theme are a handful of interchangeable words that will describe exactly what “differently” means in this sense: openly, responsibly, patiently, mindfully, sensibly, simply and confidently.

The words were chosen to support important messaging related to COVID-19, Fisher explained.

“For example, when visitors come up to Whistler, it will be important that they explore responsibly. When they celebrate, it’s important that they celebrate sensibly,” she said.

“When they are walking in the village, there will be new protocols set up around social distancing, and it will be important that people participate mindfully.”

The goal of the campaign is to give comfort and confidence to both locals and visitors as Whistler reopens—one of the key

takeaways gleaned from TW’s recent surveys.

“The general feedback from residents [was that] they understand that tourism is our bread and butter and that they want to welcome guests back, but they want to do so in a very measured and thoughtful way,” Fisher said.

“Similarly, our guests are saying that they want to come to Whistler, but they also want to feel that they will be welcomed by the community, No. 1, and that the business community will provide appropriate protocols to protect their safety and health.”

As far as what businesses are saying, they’re “hungry to welcome visitation back,” but want to do so responsibly, managing capacity appropriately and keeping their employees safe, she added.

To help guide visitors as they return, TW is also working on a “Doors Open Directory,” which will include sector-bysector, business-by-business info about reopening dates and safety protocols.

With the U.S. border closed to all but essential travel until June 21 (and likely beyond), B.C. staycations are expected to soar this summer—but the timeline for when provincial officials will allow people to travel outside their home regions is anybody’s guess.

Destination British Columbia CEO Marsha Walden said she is not sure whether the government directive will go from the current order encouraging “hyper-local” directly to province-wide travel or whether Provincial Health Officer Dr. Bonnie Henry will suggest an interim phase where people are asked to limit travel to within a specified radius from their homes.

“There might be an interim phase,” Walden said. “We’re planning for both scenarios.”

Destination British Columbia typically partners with tourism-sector businesses, but Walden said partnerships are in the works with non-tourism-related organizations such as the British Columbia Automobile Association (BCAA), the BC Liquor Distribution Branch and TransLink.

The partnerships could result in advertising promoting travel to B.C. tourist destinations in liquor stores and buses and perks for BCAA members when they get to the destinations.

Walden said the provincial tourism marketer is also likely to pump marketing dollars into a mix of digital and traditional media.

“We all have an interest in restarting the tourism economy, so [the campaign is about] how can we work together to really amplify and encourage British Columbians to explore their own province this summer,” she said.

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Outdoor adventure companies looking to regional market OPERATORS AWAITING WORD TO REOPEN SAFELY

BY BRANDON BARRETT WHISTLER’S NATURAL surroundings have always been the key attraction for visitors from around the world, but with international travel ground to a halt for the foreseeable future, local adventure tour operators are hopeful the regional market will help shore up some of the losses caused

by COVID-19.

“We’re an add-on so we find that our customers are completely in sync with whoever is coming to the resort, so if Whistler invites regional people back and they’re happy to come, then [we will welcome them].

Typically, like in the past, we’ve had a lot of regional customers—and even locals,” said Allan Crawford, president of Canadian Wilderness Adventures (CWA), which offers a range of adventure-based activities, such as ATV, canoe and e-bike tours.

Like any tourism-reliant business, CWA was hit hard by the pandemic, forced to

lay off staff before Ottawa’s wage subsidy kicked in (some staff have since been brought back on).

“I think it’s all manageable now, but at the time, the fear of the unknown was quite shocking,” Crawford noted.

While it’s not likely to make up the “big, massive hit” he has already suffered, Eric Wight of Backroads Whistler, which offers watersports, boat rentals and river tours, is hopeful “pent-up demand” from the regional market will lead British Columbians to choose Whistler once it is safe to do so.

“There’s definitely pent-up demand, but there are a lot of great places to go visit in beautiful B.C.,” he said. “That [British Columbians] can’t go across the border is going to help our regional visits, but it won’t make it up.”

And while international bookings have been “cancelling fast and furious,” Wight said he is starting to get inquiries from American clients asking when business might resume.

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numerous. But the Pacific Northwest, they can move quicker. When you’re coming from Europe, you’ve got to have a month or two notice, so we’ve lost all our European bookings and all our group bookings for spring and fall,” he explained. “American bookings, they’re starting to talk to us, like, ‘Hey, what’s going on? Are you gonna be there? We want to go down the river.’”

Crawford was of a similar mind, believing that scenic places like Whistler, the Okanagan and Tofino will be popular destinations for the rubber tire market as B.C. moves through the different stages of recovery.

“People have had a few months to reflect and I think you’re going to see the importance maybe more than ever of getting back to nature. That’s what we provide,” he added.

Crawford said the company has been taking every precaution to ensure the safety

of guests for when operations resume, including the purchase of a UV cabinet used to help keep gear clean.

“We are currently reviewing best practices and building operational protocols accordingly,” he said, adding that CWA would not resume operations until B.C. lifts the province-wide state of emergency.

At The Adventure Group, the company is “working with external specialists to ensure that when we do open that we are taking every possible step to mitigate the risk of COVID-19 spread,” wrote sales and marketing director Jason Langlois in an email.

Langlois noted the operator is listening to all levels of government to determine the best time to reopen, but is hopeful its Vallea Lumina, Superfly Ziplines, Wedge Rafting and Treetop Adventure activities will resume with special modifications in mid- to late June. n

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Playground Builders pivoting to toys during pandemic WHISTLER-BASED CHARITY DELIVERING EDUCATIONAL TOYS TO KIDS IN AFGHANISTAN, PALESTINE

BY BRANDON BARRETT SINCE 2007, Playground Builders has been giving the gift of play to underserved children across the Middle East. But as the COVID-19 pandemic has forced the closure of dozens of playgrounds it helped build, the Whistler-based non-profit has had to shift gears, pivoting from community play zones to toys.

With all but one of its approximately 250 playgrounds in Afghanistan, Palestine and Iraq closed to maintain physical distancing, Playground Builders launched a pilot project on the Gaza Strip that saw volunteers deliver educational toys such as Rubik’s cubes to every child in 200 homes.

That project proved such a success that the organization just finalized a second pilot project for another 150 homes in Herat Province, Afghanistan, which, at 1,248 confirmed coronavirus cases, has been the second hardest hit province in the country after Kabul, another area Playground Builders operates in.

“So far, it’s appearing to be quite

successful at face value,” Playground Builders founder Keith Reynolds said of the Afghani pilot project. “You just think about it: to educate people about this pandemic and also to give kids a bit of happiness inside their homes where they’re supposed to be, that makes total sense to me.”

Along with giving kids a much-needed outlet at a time when they are self-isolating away from school and their regular social lives—often in cramped quarters with large family units—Reynolds sees the project as a way to educate families on the proper COVID-19 precautions.

“This is really important, simply because there’s a lack of information and media in both these areas we’re working in, so it’s very important that we have people go, not necessarily door to door, but into these poorer areas where there’s no television, limited radio, limited media to get the word out,” he explained.

Afghanistan is also facing a significant food shortage as the pandemic has sent prices soaring and forced many breadwinners into unemployment. Save the Children has predicted that a third of the country’s 39 million people will not have enough food to

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get through this month and next.

“One of the comments [I heard] is that, ‘We’re not going to die of COVID, we’re going to die of starvation,’” Reynolds relayed. “So that’s going to stress parents out, and we all know that kind of stress in a small room is dispersed, and the kids will be stressed, too. We’re hoping happy kids will create happy parents. We’ve got to keep those kids happy and hopefully it will spin off into happy parents.”

With construction at a standstill,

the non-profit has been surveying its existing playgrounds to determine what repairs may be needed before distancing measures are lifted and school resumes.

Compound that cost with a dip in fundraising that practically every charity has had to contend with during the crisis, and Reynolds admitted the charity would be facing some losses.

“We’re not planning on building any new playgrounds right now for the first bit when this thing ends,” he noted. “We don’t know when it will end, but when it does, we will be renewing the playgrounds that are in existence before they open back up again for school, so that includes replacing some of the swings that literally get worn out, new paint, new ground covers.”

In the meantime, however, Reynolds is glad that Playground Builders could remind the communities it serves that “there are still those halfway around the world that care about your people,” he said. “We care about your children. That’s got to be a gift, when somebody shows up at the door to give your child a present.”

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“You look at tourism around the world— of course, it’s been destroyed by COVID, but prior to that, tourism around the world has been way too much, all the time. Remote and pristine, those go together, and people are looking for that,” said David Harley, the proponent behind Zincton Mountain Village, an all-season resort that would be located along London and Whitewater ridges near New Denver, B.C. Partially modelled after the Swiss ski village of Mürren, Zincton is envisioned as “an all-season, backcountry-oriented mountain destination catering to dedicated local, regional, and international guests seeking an immersive mountain experience with world-class accommodation and amenities,” according to an Expression of Interest prepared by Brent Harley and Associates (no relation to David Harley), that was submitted to the province this month. If approved, Zincton will combine the “lift-service recreation experience offered at traditional mountain resorts with an extensive and accessible backcountry offering.”

Harley said the development aligns with the recent trends in backcountry recreation.

“If you look at the backcountry population now, it’s predominantly hardcore. They’re used to skiing without any avalanche mitigation, without any mapping, without any route suggestions or things like that,” he said. “But if you look into the future— you’ve seen it at Whistler—the explosion in the backcountry population is going to create opportunities where people would love to backcountry ski with family, with friends in less of an isolated [area].

“It’s a forward-looking project that speaks to what the backcountry population will become.”

Signed on to Patagonia founder Yvon Chouinard’s 1% for the Planet initiative, which encourages companies to donate the equivalent of one per cent of their gross sales to environmental non-profits, Zincton is intended to have as minimal a footprint as possible, Harley explained.

“We don’t really want to rip up the tenure lands, so the idea is to basically leave it

exactly the way it is, do some glading with the lifts, overlap the tenured lands—but mostly the lifts start and terminate on private lands,” he said, adding that the ski area will be carbon-neutral from opening day thanks to the adoption of net-zero energy building standards as well as a deal with a local power producer to provide runof-river electricity for the whole resort.

“We’re very conscious of having a really light touch.”

With the rise in so-called “ecovillages,” intentional communities emphasizing more socially, economically and ecologically sustainable ways of life, coupled with fewer careers being tied to a specific location, Harley believes people will increasingly choose to live where they play.

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“The separation of the need to have work and home close together, people want to live where they want to recreate and where they want to retire, and they can do that when they have portable income,” he said. “So these little ecovillages … if done properly at small scale, can have very minimal environmental impact. We’re keen on that.”

Targeting up to 140,000 annual ski visits at full build-out, Harley is aiming to cater to local skiers as much as the longerhaul guest. “We’re trying to create a place that people want to call home, and when you call something home, it can’t be overly transactional. It can’t be too touristy,” he said.

“We think that magic number is … roughly half residents and half longer-term guests, and then just 200 or 300 drive-up per day.

That’s how we’re gearing our lift capacities and how we’re designing the village.”

Plans include a “Mountain Village” envisioned as “as intimate, pedestrianscaled, and pedestrian-oriented base area, where all accommodation and skier services are ski to/ski from,” according to the proposal. Cabins will form all private and public accommodation, and “no large hotels or condominium developments will be entertained.”

With the master-planning process still underway, Harley is aiming for a December 2021 opening date, but added that with the effects of COVID-19, that could be extended to late 2022.

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Pemberton starts Mayor’s Task Force GROUP TO HELP GUIDE COUNCIL THROUGH COVID-19 RESPONSE AND RECOVERY

BY DAN FALLOON THE VILLAGE OF Pemberton (VOP) is looking to be proactive on COVID-19 response and recovery.

At its May 26 regular meeting, held via Zoom, council voted to go forward with convening a Mayor’s Task Force that will look to help residents, businesses and community organizations rebound from the effects of the ongoing pandemic.

Representatives would join the task force for a maximum of six months, at which point council will reassess the group’s necessity.

“When we talked about a re-launch and response and recovery, we didn’t want it to be solely on business,” Richman said. “Obviously, there is a huge business component to recovery and that trickles down to jobs and taxes and everything else.

“We wanted to make sure that aspects like mental health, the social fabric of our community, community groups, all those sorts of areas were represented by this task force without making it too cumbersome.”

In addition to Richman and Councillor Ryan Zant, who was voted as the council representative later in the meeting, representatives invited to sit on the task force will be: the Pemberton & District Chamber of Commerce board; Tourism Pemberton; a financial services or financial planning professional; Sea to Sky Community Services; WorkBC; a mental health professional; and three community members-at-large.

Richman reasoned that each sector’s representative would consult with members of that community and bring it back to the committee.

“Ultimately, the recommendations from that committee come to council,” he said.

Chief administrative officer Nikki Gilmore said while the VOP observed

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many other communities bringing together similar task forces, many were failing to incorporate the social element to them.

“We thought [it] was very important to meet physical, mental and social well-being of the community,” she said.

Gilmore stressed that council will make all decisions, but the task force will be created to facilitate feedback.

The original draft proposed including a real estate professional, local developer or construction company representative on the task force, but Coun. Amica Antonelli noted that with several key industries such as agriculture, transportation, forestry and personal care not specifically included, it didn’t make sense to automatically grant the development sector a seat at the table.

“By calling out the development industry, we’re excluding some of the

other ones, so my preference would be to have a few of them combined,” she said, recommending expanding the communitymember-at-large section.

Coun. Leah Noble followed up by recommending that agriculture be granted a spot, citing food stability concerns.

“This crisis has shone a spotlight on that,” she said.

Richman said the first draft of the list had more than 20 suggested sectors, but was pared down because hosting that many people would not make for a workable committee.

“They’re good suggestions, we just need to make sure that we keep membership to a manageable number,” he said.

As well, Zant proposed adding a public-health professional in addition to a mental-health professional.

“I don’t know if it’s part of the re-launch,”

Richman reasoned. “They’re doing some really important work. Certainly, part of re-launch and recovery is the return to normal medical services at our clinics, so there’s definitely a component there.

“Part of me feels like it’s almost something outside of our re-launch committee.”

Antonelli pitched opening up the spot’s definition to encompass any health professional, though Richman said he felt the mental health impact was key to address.

“The potential mental health impact of this and the ongoing situation could be very heavy,” he said. “Personally, I feel a member specific to the mental-health profession would be very helpful.”

Coun. Ted Craddock pondered adding a Squamish-Lillooet Regional District Area C representative, though Gilmore reinforced that it’s a Village committee.

Similarly, Zant brought up adding a Lil’wat Nation representative, but Richman said he talks regularly with Chief Dean Nelson and, though not part of the task force, communication with neighbouring groups will be key going ahead.

“Where does it end?” he asked. “Coun.

Craddock made a good suggestion with Area C and [Coun. Zant] made a good suggestion with Lil’wat, but then should N’Quatqua be in there? And if we have N’Quatqua, do we have the Lake Road band nations?”

Council directed staff to make applications available as soon as possible and, with the next regular meeting not scheduled until June 16, there will be a special meeting held before then to confirm the appointments. Staff will also be directed to bring recommendations to council for approval.

“Recovery is now. I would like to be as ambitious as we can while realizing that staff are smoking busy right now,” Richman said.

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Missin’ Whismas I DON’T REMEMBER exactly who came up with the term “Whismas,” a colloquialism for the Whistler Mountain Bike Park’s (WMBP) annual opening day.

BY VINCE SHULEY It could have been a fervent downhiller expressing their enthusiasm online or some clever staff member in Whistler Blackcomb’s marketing department. Either way, we have Vancouver-based film studio IFHT to thank for the mic-drop-worthy YouTube music video titled Whismas, a remix of Metro Boomin’s ”Space Cadet,” set to rap lyrics such as: “Clean whip, new kit yeah, I look faster Hittin’ all secret lines like park master Hella stickers on my mind yeah, I’m fat stackin’ DOWNHILL DREAMS Re-live all your favourite bike park opening day experiences in Whismas by IFHT Films.

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And I only ride park yes, I’m park rattin’ Brush the cobwebs off with a double black Routine poutine then another lap First day on the bike got me feelin’ sketchy Fell down on some roots, now I gotta wedgie” Whismas is traditionally a bit of a gong show. People travel from all over the region to ride WMBP because we’re (usually) the first bike park to open. Trails are limited. Lines are long. People waste no time in wrecking themselves with their own overstoke. But despite all that, it’s one of the highest-vibe days in Whistler’s calendar, when people flock to the Fitzsimmons Express to ride some of the best trails in the world and bro out in the lift line.

I’m not in the early-morning lineup crowd for Whismas, nor am I in the uber-dedicated-kids-who-camp-out-thenight-before-opening lineup. But I do try to make it later that afternoon for a lap down Orient Express at least, if for no other reason than to remind myself how lucky I am to have WMBP within a pedal ride of my residence.

The rumour mill around WMBP’s opening (or not) has been the talk of the

town and I believe Whistler Blackcomb when they say they’re doing everything they can to open and keep people safe at the same time. The last thing anyone needs is a mob of disgruntled park regulars whining about how golf courses are opening but for some reason, the bike park remains shut.

No need to explain the apples and oranges there. I’m happy to patiently wait it out and see before committing to a season’s pass.

After all, there’s plenty of other trails to ride in the meantime.

I’ve always viewed WMBP as a complementary addition to Whistler’s mountain bike network. Mountain bikers don’t just travel to Whistler to ride Crank it Up and A-Line anymore. They’re riding Dark Crystal and Lord of the Squirrels, both of which involve putting your head down and grinding away at a climb for up to hours at a time. But with the modern, versatile bikes, more trails than you can shake a stick at and three different high-speed lifts, twowheeled travellers would be remiss to not take a couple of days to explore WMBP’s vast trail network.

We’ve all heard the reasons to avoid bike park: long lines, braking bumps, Joeys clogging up lower Heart of Darkness. Yes, all of those things do happen, mostly on Saturdays in high summer. But there’s ways to avoid all of that noise if you know where

you’re going.

Last week, I watched an Instagram Live interview from @Crankworx with bike park trail crew templar Peter Matthews, whom you may remember from all of those hilarious Trail Engaged videos. He described the utopian bike park as a ski hill where you can spread out by simply pointing at something then begin riding in that direction. Snow lends itself more easily to that, of course, but WMBP is closer to that experience than any other bike park in the world. Yeah, there’s epic alpine riding in the European Alps and there’s sick flow and gnarly gnar in other parts of B.C., but nowhere else can you link all that together in a single run like you can off Whistler Peak. If you haven’t yet ridden from Top of the World down to Creekside via Khybers, Middle of Nowhere, Kashmir etc., you haven’t experienced one of the best liftaccessed trail descents on Earth. Make sure to bring your A-game (including food, water and tools) and be comfortable riding mostly double blacks. If it opens.

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T R I D NATIONS: G I S DE 2 T R A P

F O S E M A N E H T D N I H E B S ES I L I R A O R T T S E E K R I O B M N I A T N U O M WHISTLER’S

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BY DAN FALLOON

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n this space last week, you read Jeff Slack’s 2015 story detailing the stories behind the naming of many of the mountain biking trails in the resort.

Of course, five years is an eternity in the mountain biking world, and in that time, builders created and christened new trails, while others that flew under the radar were brought into the officially sanctioned fold.

It’s not feasible to delve into all 971 of the Whistler trail listings found on Trailforks, and some trails are still on the “DL,” as it were, so these stories aren’t a fully comprehensive list.

“There are quite a few other good names that aren’t on the map, and I might get crucified if I even share the names,” laughs Whistler Off Road Cycling Association (WORCA) lead trail builder Dan Raymond.

That said, without further ado, please enjoy the origin stories of a whole new set of Whistler’s mountain biking monikers.

WHISTLER VALLEY Jumping right in, let’s start with the crown jewel of the Sproatt Alpine Trail Network and WORCA’s raison d’être, LORD OF THE SQUIRRELS .

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While completing the three-year project, “Chipmunk Uprising was the first idea, Raymond knew he needed to hit on a name but I didn’t want people to think it was a that connected with how “chasey and turny climb trail,” he says, noting current WORCA and fast the trail” was, which reminded him president Dale Mikkelsen suggested of the way squirrels would scurry up and “rebellion” instead. down a tree. Considering its construction as TRASH , GARBAGE , RUBBISH Trash is a local a three-instalment epic, Raymond invoked staple right next to the old dump, and when the Lord of the Rings trilogy. other builders created new lines in the area, “The official story, which went to the they stuck with the theme. squirrel, was at the end of Year 1, we ran “Wherever you dig in that zone, I’m out of money and I was working by myself guessing that either ravens or bears dragged building a big bridge,” he says. “A squirrel would come down every day and just bark at me. Cheep, cheep, those noises. It wasn’t afraid of me at all.

“This was just as the trail going up reaches the old growth, so this squirrel had probably never seen a human before. He was not afraid of the chainsaw noises in any way, and I was awed at the courage of this squirrel. That’s what really solidified the name.”

The original working name for the trail was First Rule of Bike Club, invoking Fight Club, though in a reverse of the cult book and movie, WORCA actually wanted people to talk about the trail once it was approved and the club had finally won alpine access.

CHIPMUNK REBELLION Sticking with the varmint theme, Raymond recalls how when beginning a new project after Lord of the Squirrels, the squirrels in his backyard had been displaced by a family of chipmunks.

RUBBISH

a lot of the garbage out of the old dump into the woods,” Raymond says. “It could look like pristine moss and when you start to build a trail, there’s a garbage bag or a plastic container.”

As well, as hikers utilized Trash to access the Train Wreck site no matter the weather—effectively destroying the trail—the Resort Municipality of Whistler (RMOW) allowed WORCA to build another trail nearby.

FEATURE STORY “It’s really bad terrain, which normally I would never have wanted to build another trail onto,” Raymond says. “Rubbish kind of matched that.”

CHERRY ON TOP , WHIPPED CREAM , and GREEN JELLO Sticking with the dessert theme established by PIECE OF CAKE and A LA MODE, Raymond said builders opted to build a sundae, with Cherry on Top marking the trail’s high point. Green Jello, meanwhile, is one of his childhood favourites.

MUFFIN MAN and ROBIN YER EGGS . These trails were built with help from a Grade 9 class of Whistler Waldorf School’s students as part of an annual weeklong project.

Muffin Man continues the Lost Lake Trails’ Frank Zappa theme, while Robin Yer Eggs is in the Cut Yer Bars zone. Raymond recalls the students asking to name the trail at the outset, but he stressed the name would likely reveal itself during the work.

“Sure enough, around the third day, we were hiking out with the kids,” he says.

“There was a robin very close to the trail, just chirping and chirping.

“Sure enough, there was a raven in the robin’s nest eating the eggs, so I just blurted out ‘She’s robbing your eggs!’ and one of the kids corrected me and said, ‘Duh, robin yer eggs.’”

HOT DOG ALLEY This west side trail, also built with significant Waldorf help, is another name with a couple different meanings, says builder Tim Haggerty. On one hand, it refers to his trail dog, Buddy, experiencing some shocks while the crews worked under the nearby power lines in the rain. His first thought, Zapped Dog, didn’t seem quite right, but he recalled that the fun fair in his Ontario hometown, the Crystal Beach Amusement Park, boasted a row of concession stands called Hot Dog Alley.

Raymond recalls another explanation, however, likening working between the power lines to 7-Eleven hot dogs cooking on the convenience store’s heated rollers.

HIND SIGHT Haggerty credited longtime WORCA heavy hitter Todd Hellinga for this one, which runs as an alternative to the middle section of Tunnel Vision. “‘This is what Tunnel Vision should have been,’” Haggerty recalls Hellinga saying at a trail night.

SCOTIA NOVA This trail near Stonebridge’s

SQUIR E H T F O D R LO

CHERRY ON

TOP

Scotia Creek also drew inspiration from builder and former WORCA president Jerome David, whose first Canadian home after moving across the pond from France was in Nova Scotia.

BUTTERFLIES AND FLOWERS , meanwhile, is a name that Haggerty had locked and loaded until he found the perfect trail for it.

It was inspired by his wife’s approach to riding, which he says differs drastically from his own.

“The joke about that is, every time, I’d be like, ‘What’s taking you so long?’ and she’d say, ‘Didn’t you see the butterflies? Didn’t you see the flowers?’” he says. “’No, I was riding my bike! Focus on the trail.’

“We always joked that one day, I was going to build a trail and call it Butterflies and Flowers … She always said ‘You should [build] a trail that has a couple spicy moves, but name it Butterflies and Flowers.’ This one has a couple spicy moves.”

Haggerty notes that it’s also B ‘n’ F for

PHOTO BY DAN RAYMOND

short, referencing his 10-year stint living in Banff.

NORTH OF TOWN , MIDDLE OF NOWHERE , OUT THERE The origins of these three trails come from Haggerty’s text messages with friends.

“Basically, people would be asking me, ‘Where are you? What are you doing?’ and at first, I was ‘I’m north of town. I’ll be home in a little bit,’” he recalls. “When I was working on Out There, I was saying, ‘Oh, I’m just out there.’”

Middle of Nowhere, meanwhile, came when he and building partner Dave Iles were having lunch, enjoying the “dead silence” when inspiration struck.

Haggerty adds that Out There also kept with the theme of Pink Floyd’s The Wall established by Comfortably Numb builder Chris Markle, referencing “Is There Anybody Out There?,” while another trail of his, HAPPIEST DAYS hearkens to “The Happiest Days of Our Lives.”

Admittedly not the world’s biggest Pink

Floyd fan, some of Haggerty’s under-theradar trails are named for his true musical love: country.

WORKING CLASS Located near High Society, Patrick Plante built this Stonebridge-area trail in the evenings on his schlep down from labouring on Lord of the Squirrels during the day.

“He wanted the trail to be difficult—not just down difficult but also the climbs in it [to be] difficult as a statement to the working-class hero,” Raymond says.

THREE BIRDS While constructing this trail with three significant rock moves, High Society builder Craig Kozman also saw three feathered friends: a raven, an owl and an eagle.

AC/DC Another Kozman construction, this references the high-voltage towers riders pass under near the end. This trail also inspired Raymond to pick up his sign game, as the signage for this trail boasts the iconic Aussie rock band’s logo.

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FEATURE STORY BLUEY EPIC An easier alternative to Billy Epic, built at a time when there was pushback against “dumbing down trails,” according to Raymond.

GREEN MONSTER So named for the largest feature on the trail, which happens to be covered in moss. It came to prominence about a decade ago when a photo of Hellinga appeared in print when the trail was still a secret. The trail sign is made from a ski that once belonged to one of the builders, Maxim Arsenault, who died in an avalanche in 2016.

HOWLER This Zander Strathern project is a fast ride and stays on theme with nearby Screaming Cat Lake.

CHEAP THRILLS Built by Eric Barry, the lead on the Frank Zappa trails near Lost Lake, this references a Zappa album. The trail sign initially featured a broken copy of the CD, but that has since been removed.

DARK CRYSTAL This former rogue Blackcomb Mountain trail by Scott Veach and Ben Haggar was officially incorporated into Whistler Blackcomb’s system in 2017. The builders

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loved both the Fraggle Rock snowboarding zone as well as the Jim Henson movie.

“The movie Dark Crystal seemed to fit perfectly with the mood of the forest below Crystal Chair,” Raymond says.

MICRO CLIMATE Dave Anderson convinced co-builder Paul Stevens of this name in reference to the small climb it features, Raymond recalls. As well, with cool weather, the moniker seemed appropriate. Anderson originally conceived the name as a pun— Micro Climb-It—but a miscommunication led Stevens to coining it with its current meteorological moniker.

WHISTLER MOUNTAIN BIKE PARK The crews in the world’s foremost gravity park have been busy with new trails and, therefore, new names as well. Here are some updates, courtesy of the Whistler Blackcomb communications department.

SOUTHPARK It’s the south side of the Whistler Mountain Bike Park.

ELIXIR This trail was built as the upper section of Insomnia, so it seemed like a creative connection: Elixr to Insomnia.

DELAYED FUSE This trail references the patrol team’s use of bombs for avalanche control.

MISS FIRE Connected to Delayed Fuse, this trail carries on the patrol terminology.

BLUEBERRY BATHTUB During the build, the crew came out of the woods at the end of the day and the supervisor found them covered in blue stain from the wildberry bushes—as if they had been bathing in a blueberry bathtub.

EARTH CIRCUS A fairly apt description of the bike park, no?

CIRQUE DU SOIL This trail was built as an extension of Earth Circus, so the French Canadian translation was recommended by an avid park rider.

MIDGARD Located in the Upper Creekside, this trail seemed so far out in the middle of Earth. Stemming from Norse mythology, Midgard is the middle land that sits between the lands of ice and fire.

PHOTO BY TIM HAGGERTY

PPIEST DAYS

ROBIN! YER

EGGS

PLAYGROUND Whistler Blackcomb wanted to build medium features at the bottom of Creekside, where the DFX Kids programs meet. It seemed like a suitable name for the features to ride on as they wrapped up their day.

TRAIL Patrol put up a sign up on this one when it opened. It didn’t have a name at that point so they marked it as “Trail.”

It stuck.

SHOMER SHABBOS The trail crew built this as an alternate connection to Ride Don’t Slide to exit the trail early. It was part of a big push to get Southpark finished, so the mountain could open the Creekside Zone. As the trail crew are big fans of The Big Lebowski, as they completed the mission and were able to take the weekend off as planned, they dubbed it with an iconic quote from the film: “I don’t roll on Shabbos” (Hebrew for ‘Sabbath’).

RIPPIN’ RUTABAGA An old trail from the early days of the bike park, brought back again with a bit of a refresh.

BC’S TRAIL Short for Boyd Chalmers’ Trail, as it was built by Olympic skiers Rob Boyd and Darren Chalmers for off-season training.

THE PINES OF MAR GABLES Like Del Boca Vista, it’s a retirement condominium complex from Seinfeld.

SABERTOOTH HORSE The trail crew saw claw marks on a tree near where they were building and imagined them to be markings of the mythical Sabertooth Horse.

WEASEL JUICE This trail begins behind the Weasel Pumphouse. ■

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acuit Bay, off the northwest end of Palawan Island, Philippines, boasts an archipelago dotted by a blend of tropical reefs, karst limestone outcroppings and sandy beaches, perfect for a sea kayak adventure.

I was back in Corong-Corong, south of El Nido, flying solo as my paddling partner, Ian Taylor, had left due to an injury, assembling my Feathercraft collapsible under the watchful eyes of the same group of smiling kids as a few weeks earlier.

On nearby Inabuyutan Island, I found a beautiful beach and set up camp. The wind picked up overnight and I awoke to discover a blanket of fine sand covering my kayak. A “Kanaway,” a strong north-northwest wind that can blow at any time, set in and I adjusted my route accordingly.

Working around the back of Malapacao and Lagen Islands, I reached tiny Pinsail Island and paddled into Cathedral Cave with its impressive limestone ceiling arching overhead. Outside, spindrift peeled of the waves as I cross to Cognon Beach.

A friendly resort worker offered some tips and I headed into the wind and across the strait. I slipped into the lee of Pangalusian Island and on to a beach on Antalula Island scouted on the first outing. Hanging my hammock from two rock outcroppings on the cliff, I watched the fiery sun fall below the horizon.

An enormous monitor lizard lumbered along the beach next morning, its head swaying side to side and tongue tasting the air. I waited for it to move on before packing and paddling to Miniloc Island, a private resort with gun-toting guards that encouraged me to keep a respectful distance.

I cruised north along the east coast of Matinloc Island, finding a narrow entrance to a tiny horseshoe bay and surfed the breaking waves to a secluded beach for a snack. At the northern tip of the island, I negotiated a soup bowl created by a 2.5-metre swell bouncing off the cliffs and reaching the quiet waters, between Matinloc and Tabiutan Island admired the kaleidoscope of blues. A spit of sand backed by a

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Adventures on tropical reefs, sandy beaches all by sea kayak

cliff with holds for my hammock was home for the night and I stored my kayak high in anticipation of a particularly high tide.

Next morning, I explored Our Lady of Matinloc Cathedral, built into the cliffs and, although long abandoned, maintained a sense of eery tranquility and beauty. Trolling the clear waters, I got lost in the scenery until the reel started to buzz. There was a slight tension on the line but no movement, so I reeled in at a lacklustre pace when it took off again. Twenty-five minutes later, I landed a three-kilogram tanigui—highly prized—and abruptly changed plans heading to nearby Secret Beach to smoke the fish and watch the moon rise.

The swell kicked up again and breaking out was a little hairy as waves crashed over my bow, with three-metre rollers intensifying the crossing to Helicopter Island. Behind a point, the waves broke over a reef creating a long, slow surf break, so I threw caution to the wind and chased the outside end of the wave. Unable to generate enough speed fully loaded I considered getting deeper in, but suspected it would end in disaster and paddled across the channel to the calm waters of Cadlao Lagoon instead.

Around the bottom of Cadlao Island, I pulled in on a picturesque beach on Bucal Island, a rock spire jutting skyward. With an even higher tide coming compliments of the full moon, I strung my hammock from an outcropping on the cliff to a tree and stored my gear as high up as possible.

Climbing into my Hennessy Hammock, I set an alarm for high tide, just to be sure. Sometime later, the hammock sagged and I fell to the ground accompanied with a loud thump. Unravelling myself, I discovered that a substantial section of the cliff I was anchored to had released and crashed to the ground centimetres away. The full moon revealed high tide lapping at the stern of my kayak, just out of harm’s way. I reset the hammock, sliding back into an uneasy sleep.

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SPORTS THE SCORE

Whistler cleans up at Alpine Canada awards PRIDY, ALEXANDER, THOMPSON, JEPSEN ALL RECEIVE HONOURS

BY DAN FALLOON WHISTLER MOUNTAIN SKI Club (WMSC) U18/U21 lead coach Conrad Pridy received a major vote of confidence earlier this month.

Pridy, who made 24 World Cup starts between 2011 and 2014, was honoured as Alpine Canada’s grassroots coach of the year when it revealed its Audi 2020 Canadian Ski Racing Awards winners on May 13.

“The way I would sum it up is I haven’t won anything in a while, so that was definitely a nice surprise,” he said. “To come out on top is pretty flattering and definitely makes me feel proud to be part of the organization that supports me through and through.”

Ski racing fans nominated athletes and coaches in each category before the Audi Canadian Ski Racing Awards’ Selection Committee chose the winners.

In his third year in the role, Pridy said he was most proud of creating a greater sense of camaraderie among his group.

“The highlight for all of them was how much of a team feel there was for the whole season, how much they liked their teammates and wanting to spend time on the road versus wanting to get home,” he said. “It’s a bit of a culture shift that’s gone

AT THE ROOTS Conrad Pridy earned the grassroots coach of the year award at the Audi 2020 Canadian Ski Racing Awards, announced on May 13.

PHOTO COURTESY OF CONRAD PRIDY

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on the past couple years that I’m most proud of is seeing some of the other athletes pass on some positive training habits and really good insights to their teammates, and then start to see those guys start to pass it off to next year’s crop of new athletes.”

In his own development as a coach, Pridy said he’s become more cognizant of how to communicate with athletes to help each and every one of them achieve what they’re capable of.

together,” he said. “They get pretty much half of the starts that they’re going to get all season in the last month-and-a-half, which unfortunately is the part that got cancelled.”

However, coaches have kept in touch with the returning athletes, and have created opportunities to train better for next season, which has kept everyone’s spirits up.

Over the course of Pridy’s time coaching in the club, the number of athletes in his group has risen steadily, though he acknowledged

“I haven’t won anything in a while, so that was definitely a nice surprise.”

- CONRAD PRIDY

“We understand that everyone learns differently and takes different pieces of information from what you might say,” he said. “To be sure the message gets across, either more avenues need to be explored for communicating or just making sure that you keep asking questions to athletes, coaches and parents to make sure that everyone’s on the same page.”

With a significant part of the season wiped out because of the COVID-19 pandemic, Pridy said it was a particularly tough pill to swallow for athletes experiencing a change this offseason, such as heading to postsecondary or graduating from the club.

“You ramp up the races and the end of the season is where all they really come

that it can fluctuate over the long term.

This past season, his group had roughly 35 athletes registered, though he expects it to settle in around 20 next year. Still, that number is higher than when he started.

“The athletes have been able to see a bit more of a clear pathway up through the different age categories, so it’s a lot less of a shock to think about yourself racing for another year, or another two or three years,” he said.

Though he’s proud to see the club become more cohesive, Pridy hopes to climb the ranks of ski coaching, perhaps next year making the jump to a provincial or national program.

Another WMSC winner was Cameron Alexander, who took home the Minogue

Award of Excellence.

“I was extremely honoured to have been selected. The Minogue Award is an award that goes to somebody who not only has done really well in their sport for that season, but a big part of it is they give it to someone who presents themselves in a positive way in all aspects of the sport,” he said. “I just try to do my best to work my hardest and to have good sportsmanship as well with my teammates.

“I do what I can to help out anyone younger than me who needs help or has aspirations in the sport. I try to be open to them.”

Upon discovering that he’d won the award, Alexander spoke with its namesake, ex-ski racer Danny Minogue.

“He’s an extremely nice guy,” Alexander said. “He was happy that I was the one who received the award and he hoped that the bursary will help me out with my ski racing career.

“He’d been following me throughout the season and he hopes that we stay in touch going forward.”

Alexander posted four top-30 finishes in nine World Cup starts this year, including his first top-10, a 10th-place showing in the Kvitfjell downhill, in his final race before the remainder of the season was wiped out as a response to COVID-19.

“It’s been weird for everybody, and I think we’re all just itching to get back on skis and get back going like normal again,” he said.

Other winners with WMSC connections were Marielle Thompson as the Ski Cross Female Athlete of the Year and Mollie Jepsen as the Para-Alpine Female of the Year. n

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Whistler triathlete keeps going without race season KARSTEN MADSEN COMPLETED AN EVERESTING CHALLENGE FOR COVID-19 RELIEF

BY DAN FALLOON TRYING TO GET over the hump of COVID-19 might feel like climbing Mount Everest every day.

So taking part in a fundraiser that saw Whistler triathlete Karsten Madsen bike an elevation gain equivalent to the Himalayan heights on May 23 in support of COVID-19 relief efforts seemed like a perfect match.

By completing just over 38 loops of a predesigned route in Bayshores and Kadenwood, Madsen ascended the 8,848 metres in 11-and-a-half hours as part of Rebecca’s Giddy Up Challenge, organized

by American athlete Rebecca Rusch.

“At times it was hard, and at other times, it wasn’t as hard as I thought,” Madsen said on May 25. “The first four hours went really well. I had some people come and ride some distanced laps with me—some people that I knew and some people that I didn’t.”

Noting that his longest prior competitive ride was roughly four-and-a-half hours and his longest training ride was seven, Madsen appreciated the support from people along the course, including drivers giving a friendly honk or friends playing songs such as Miley Cyrus’ “The Climb” as he went up or Fall Out Boy’s “Sugar, We’re Going Down.” He also credited his parents and sister for helping him fuel properly to complete the challenge, taking only seven quick pee breaks.

“Where the struggle came in was around Hour 8,” he said. “My mind was starting to lose it and my heart rate was no longer responding. It was falling the other way where you can’t elevate it.”

However, Madsen took two ibuprofens and chugged a flat Coca-Cola, and soon enough, bounced back.

“I got back to riding laps that were on par with near the beginning,” he said.

“Then near the finish, more people started coming out and the sun started peeking out.

“It was a pretty epic end to a pretty sweet day.”

Rusch’s movement supports COVID-19 relief through the Be Good Foundation. The funds raised will go to multiple different initiatives, including getting bicycles to frontline workers and supporting vaccine research.

While raising money to get bikes to people is close to Madsen’s heart, with many events on hold until a vaccine is found, giving those efforts a boost is key.

“The main backstory to it, the why, is that COVID-19 for an athlete has been an absolute disaster,” he said. “You realize pretty quick that your livelihood is directly affected by events. Even having other

aspects of a coaching company and other income streams, they all revolve around that one literal thing.”

As of May 27, Madsen had raised $1,170 of his $2,000 goal (raised from the initial $500 goal). Donations are being accepted until June 1 at https://www.pledgereg. com/261182.

As part of the day, he also collected food items for the Whistler Food Bank.

Seeing people come together (figuratively) to support the cause, or even just be inspired to hop on their own bike, was a rush.

“That part, racing had never given me that sensation,” he said.

While eager to get back to racing, Madsen said he looks forward to completing similar adventurous challenges when he eventually retires.

“It was a window into a world of the logical next step when the finish-line racing is done,” he said. “But it’s funny, my kneejerk reaction when I first finished was ‘I’m never doing that again.’”

Leading up to the challenge, Madsen said that he’s coped with the COVID world by continuing to train after attending winter training camps in Arizona and Portugal.

“Training has been the one thing to ground me and keep that level of normalcy in my life. Personally, I started doing a journal every day through COVID. A lot of times, it was to remind me to stay on the path,” he said on May 21. “If I do my training, then I feel better; if I start missing my training, then I feel worse.

“It’s a way of life and there’s a lot of identity that you pull through your racing.”

That said, though the relationships and camaraderie built through racing are tested at this time, Madsen said he’s able to better explore Whistler and settle in after moving to the resort before the 2019 race season.

“For once, I actually get a chance to really explore my own backyard and foster relationships within the community that you might not really have had the time to do because you’re flying on a jet somewhere different to race and you’re always in and out,” he said.

With prize money from events dried up, and sponsor companies also struggling, Madsen has leaned on his coaching business for income. Though many of his clients are amateur athletes, many of them stuck to it even though their future events were wiped out indefinitely.

“I’ve been super fortunate that the athletes that I am coaching, a lot of them have taken a priority in their own wellbeing and [have an] understanding that sticking to a program and a plan, having some sort of direction to follow in this time, was very helpful,” he said. n

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EPICURIOUS

The SLCC invites Whistler to ‘Bring Home the Bannock’ through new takeout, delivery service INITIATIVE AIMED AT RAISING LOCAL AWARENESS OF MUSEUM’S INDIGENOUS-INSPIRED CUISINE

BY BRANDON BARRETT THE SQUAMISH Lil’wat Cultural Centre (SLCC) may not be open to visitors right now, but that doesn’t mean locals can’t take home a taste of the awardwinning First Nations museum.

The kitchen team at the Upper Village centre is inviting Whistlerites to “Bring Home the Bannock” through a new takeout and delivery service that offers a sampling of Indigenous-inspired cuisine from its Thunderbird Café.

With tourism ground to a halt, executive chef Felix Breault sees the program as a way to shine a light on the SLCC’s culinary offerings. “We started this, obviously, because of the COVID-19 virus as a way to remind our locals that we’re still here,” he said. “Everyone likes the food, everyone comments that it’s great, but we’re not really seeing a lot of locals come back like we would at other cafés. We’re hoping it can raise a bit of awareness of the food we do here.”

For the month of June, the menu will feature grilled maple and juniper berrymarinated short ribs, roasted Pemberton potatoes with homemade pickle aioli, and a seasonal green salad made from Rootdown Organic Farm produce. That, of course, also comes with the much imitated but never duplicated First Nations’ fry bread, bannock—the beloved recipe for which Breault credits to Lil’wat kitchen manager and chef Theadora Sam. “The new menu … is more barbecueand picnic-friendly,” Breault said. “Tourism Whistler really wants to promote picnics this summer, which is something I like to do myself. I like to have a good picnic, not just hot dogs, so I thought it was perfect since I have a natural interest in that.”

A Quebec native, Breault said learning about Indigenous ingredients and ways of life has helped him simplify his approach to cooking—while recognizing the similarities

BANNOCK AT THE DOOR The Squamish Lil’wat Cultural Centre’s new takeout and delivery service features readymade meals—including everyone’s favourite First Nations’ fry bread, bannock—from the award-winning museum’s Thunderbird Café.

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“[The First Nations’ influence] takes shape in the sense that it’s not over-processed.”

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to French-Canadian cuisine that were there all along. “[The First Nations’ influence] takes shape in the sense that it’s not over-

processed. I wouldn’t say what I do is exactly rustic; everything is homemade.

We’re not really getting stuff pre-made,” he said. “The seasonal [focus] is really what’s

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There are similarities in the cooking, as far as it being comfort-food-oriented.”

When crafting his menus, Breault will first consult with the SLCC’s cultural department to get a sense of what the Lil’wat and Squamish would traditionally hunt or forage for at that time of year. “It always ties back to what’s seasonal,” he said.

And while there are limits to just how closely the Thunderbird Café can hew to traditional First Nations cuisine— the chefs are not permitted by food regulations, for instance, to serve ingredients that have been hunted or foraged, something First Nations chefs across Canada have lobbied to change—he has gained ample experience with game and other ingredients that you’d be hardpressed to find on many other menus.

“At the SLCC, I’ve learned to explore more the game meats. That’s something we do nicely here. We offer all sorts of meats that are not available anywhere else in Whistler,” said Breault, adding that he and his team are working on a wild game platter that will likely include bison, cured duck and elk for when the café resumes in-person dining—which will be held in the museum’s beautiful Istken Hall to better accommodate physical distancing.

“That’s one cool thing about here: We’re fairly small so it’s easier for us to keep everything fresh,” he added. “I get lots of freedom from my superiors for food, so I’m able to keep it super interesting and seasonal and deal with whatever the suppliers have available.”

The June menu costs $49.99 for two people, with Indigenous wine pairings and desserts as extra add-ons. Pick-up and delivery is available between 3 and 6 p.m. every Tuesday. Delivery orders include a $5 charge. The order window closes at 5 p.m. every Monday, and supplies are limited.

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New album shares songs from Squamish and Lil’wat Nations SONGS FROM OUR NATION VOL. 3 AVAILABLE ONLINE AT SLCC

BY ALYSSA NOEL THE SQUAMISH Lil’wat Cultural Centre (SLCC) is celebrating the release of a new album.

Songs From Our Nation Vol. 3 features 12 tracks from SLCC ambassadors recorded in the Skwxwú7mesh Sníchim (Squamish language) and Ucwalmícwts (Lil’wat language).

While the centre—and all of the Squamish and Lil’wat singers and drummers featured on the CD—hoped to have a launch party, thanks to COVID-19, that will have to wait.

“We were in discussion of maybe wanting to celebrate, as a lot of us that were part of the project never had that type of experience before,” said Te’c Georgina Dan, who has worked at the SLCC for the last four years and is featured on the album as one of the Lil’wat singers.

“I was very emotional [when the album came out]. I didn’t see myself being part of something so big. I never realized when recording it that I’d have so many emotions towards this project. But I feel that it’s not just for myself, it’s for those that are learning to sing the songs.”

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To that end, ambassadors have been handing out copies of the album in their communities—with children at the daycare centre in Mount Currie and school kids from the Squamish Nation already hearing some of those traditional songs.

Dan says while she grew up listening to and singing some of them, the project gave her a chance to delve more deeply into the

vice versa. I never heard that song with some of the traditional language in it before it was brought to us by people who translated it.”

For A7xwil Travis Billy (from the Xaxli’p Nation), who oversaw the Squamish Nation tracks, song selection was a mix of old and new. “The first song we all agreed should be on the album was ‘Salmon Song,’” he says. “It’s a really fast-paced song, it’s really

“When I’m singing the songs with other people, it fills the room. We all felt that way, so it was a bit comforting having the help of people who have done this before.”

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language. Knowledge keepers and elders from both nations gave permission for use of the songs and helped mentor the singers and drummers as well.

“I first started lead singing when I started working at the SLCC years ago,” she says.

“One of the songs that stuck to me and helped me start learning to sing was called ‘Working Song.’ I grew up with it as ‘The Women’s Working Song,’ but the one on the album has language in it that acknowledges the role of both men and women—because the work that a man does can’t be finished without the women in the household, and

upbeat. We can get a lot of people going. It’s a good song altogether.”

A huge honour, though, was having his own song—“We Remember”—featured as well. “I didn’t think that was going to happen,” he says. “I didn’t think it would ever be recorded. I’m happy they asked me for that.”

Once the songs were selected and rehearsed, the drummers and singers went to Monarch Studios in Vancouver to record.

“It was a very different scene from what I’m used to when I’m singing the traditional songs,” Dan says. “I found that it was very weird to record it and then just hear myself.

When I’m singing the songs with other people, it fills the room. We all felt that way, so it was a bit comforting having the help of people who have done this before.”

While Billy has experience recording music, it was more the content that presented a challenge while recording.

After singing each song in the studio three or four times over the course of a day, the team went home thinking they were finished with their contributions.

Only, a week later, when Billy was sent the songs, he learned three of them had been recorded incorrectly—in part because of the translation challenges.

“I ended up having to go to my cousin who is a language teacher,” he says. “I said, ‘OK, I need your help.’ I needed a recording of ‘Salmon Song,’ so he sent it to me and said, ‘You’re singing it wrong.’ … I was going through recordings I had and my cousin had. We sat there for an hour and went back and forth. Then I went back and recorded it.”

With the finished product now in their hands, Dan says she’s hoping it will reach more people.

“I feel relieved that it has been done and that it’s more than I expected it to be,” she says. “But I definitely would love to have more people listening to it and learning from it.”

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“The first thing you have to know about me is I seem to have a natural inclination to collect and tell stories,” he says. “It’s just part of my nature. This is definitely recognized by my family and friends.”

His daughter, in particular, highlighted this around five years ago and offered a suggestion: “You have so many stories. You should write them down,” Price recalls her saying.

And that’s how, one story at a time, Price—a long-time Squamish resident and school board chair for the Sea to Sky school district—put together Rickollections...A Memoir of Family, Friends, and Wild Places.

The book is a mix of short stories, essays, and anecdotes that tell tales from Price’s life, but also delve into outdoor adventures and, indirectly, the history of Squamish.

“I like to be amused and I like to laugh, so it’s a pretty solid theme,” he says. “One of my goals was to record some family history—my own, but also my parents’ and grandparents’. That’s the sort of thing people my age start thinking about wanting to pass on to their children and grandchildren.”

But within those stories are themes that appeal to a wider audience, too.

For one, he has a few wildly varying adventure stories packed in from longdistance cycling trips to mountain exploration and sailing.

“Since I was a boy, I have enjoyed the wilderness,” he says. “I became a bit of a mountaineer and rock climber. I say ‘a bit of’ because I was never anywhere near the top echelon. It was a hobby—mountain exploration as opposed to climbing—

travelling through mountain wilderness became a theme in my life and I’ve written about that.”

Born in Edmonton, Price and his family moved to West Vancouver when he was 10. He went to the University of British Columbia and, in 1971, after getting married, moved to Squamish and worked as a teacher and principal.

“I’ve written about that in the book,” he says. “One section is ‘Squamish 1971.’

I wanted people to have a sense of what the town was like when I moved here. It was a very, very different place. The road connecting Squamish to Vancouver had only been in existence for 12 or 13 years when we moved here.”

Price also delves even further back in his book all the way to his parents’ experiences during the Second World War. In a way, revisiting their struggles while dealing with the COVID-19 pandemic has been helpful.

“I’ve been thinking about what they went through and what we’re going through right now,” he says. “There’s no comparison at all. I’m sitting back safe and sound and well fed in my leather recliner … and my mother had a baby and had to leave her town because of the bombs. This, too, will pass.”

However, not knowing when that might be, Price opted to forgo his book launch party—a celebration he had envisioned at the Brackendale Art Gallery—in favour of getting it out into the world.

“Someone said, ‘People are looking for things to do and read. Your book is amusing and entertaining,’” he says.

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Guns, drugs and Quarantino 10 “ALL YOU need to make a movie is a girl and a gun.”

That famous, factually correct quote is attributed to French director Jean-Luc Godard (Bande à part, Breathless), but Godard himself attributes it to American movie pioneer D.W. Griffith (who pioneered the feature-length film, but is also best known for 1915’s The Birth of a Nation, which hasn’t aged well).

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So yeah, a girl and a gun… but these days a shitload of drugs doesn’t hurt either. Whether it’s cartel violence or a big deal gone awry (or usually both), guns and drugs have been keeping cinema afloat for decades (especially in the pre-superhero years).

Hollywood loves the hard drugs,

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though—crack kingpins, coke smugglers, the depravity of heroin junkies—but not many studios are backing flicks about psychedelics, probably because smuggling acid anywhere isn’t dramatic and it’s really hard to film an interesting movie about four people laughing and rolling around by an alpine lake.

And any time a movie did try to pull off a scene where someone gets ripped on psychedelic drugs, it was almost always portrayed in a cheese-dick, not-at-all-how-it-is kinda way. (The exception that proves the rule is Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas, which nails a scene featuring acid and a hotel carpet.)

But the times they are a changin’.

Civilized society (which is still super rare, sadly) is beginning to realize that mushrooms are awesome, un-stepped-on ecstasy (no one calls it that anymore) can save marriages, and acid might actually play a huge role in helping addicts quit doing drugs altogether (or get three days worth of farm chores out of the way in one day).

Psychedelics are happening, man, and Netflix is hoping to kick off the revolution with Have a Good Trip: Adventures in Psychedelics, a documentary featuring a host of celebrities talking about that time they got super f*cked up.

A mix of trippy animation, comedic re-enactments of anti-drug propaganda, and talking head celebrity interviews with the likes of Sarah Silverman, Nick Kroll, Sting, Deepak Chopra, and writer/ director Donick Cary, the film also attempts to argue

that psychedelics are safer than the “hard” drugs and can be fun and beneficial to creative types. Which is true, but also a bit of an oversimplification—lots of people don’t just do one kind of drug or the other, and the best interviews in Have a Good Trip— Anthony Bourdain and Carrie Fisher—are both dead, Bourdain by apparent suicide and Fisher somewhat mysteriously after a history of mental health issues. (Other dead celebrities mentioned include Hunter Thompson, Jerry Garcia, and John Belushi.)

Have a Good Trip is cute, and both the anecdotes and visuals feel much more real than the Hollywood norm, but even at 85 minutes it’s apparent, like any actual psychedelic trip, you kinda had to be there…

Beyond that, Quarantino continues and for his eighth feature, 2015’s The Hateful Eight, Quentin kicks it old school: skipping the drugs and going straight for a girl and a gun story, but with a lot more guns.

Jennifer Jason Leigh (Rush, Fast Times at Ridgemont High) stars as Daisy Domergue, a murderous criminal apprehended and in the company of two bounty hunters (Sam Jackson and Kurt Russell) and a would-be sheriff (Walton Goggins) when a blizzard forces their stagecoach to take shelter at Minnie’s Haberdashery, a high mountain refuge house with a host of mysterious characters inside, and not a damn one of them is Minnie.

Shot as a 70mm ultra widescreen western, but set almost entirely inside the

single-roomed haberdashery, Tarantino said this one is about “a bunch of nefarious guys trapped in a room, all telling backstories that may or may not be true.”

It’s part Agatha Christie, part Howard Hawks (Quentin loves Rio Bravo), with just enough of that Kill Bill-style blood fountain wizardry.

The Hateful Eight also runs over three hours and is admittedly a little slow to get going (even with some early unsettling violence). But if you give it a chance, the tension sure mounts. This one dips back to Tarantino’s roots a bit, with exploding heads, racism on display, and a simultaneous shoot-out.

Set in 1877, the ghosts of the American Civil War still wisp through each character, allowing Tarantino to continue his conversation about America’s “horrible past with slavery” and racism.

Where Django Unchained was a revengefantasy set right in the thick of things, this film offers a glimpse of hope that hatred can be, if not overcome, then at least mutually shared into submission. And while many critics cried foul about the shitkicking that Leigh’s character takes at the hands of her captors, others—including Tarantino himself—assert that it’s a showpiece of equality.

He never actually shows us what makes Daisy a mean bastard but if we take his word for it the message is that man, woman, or whatever: “You only need to hang mean bastards, but mean bastards need to hang.”■

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ARIES (March 21-April 19): “The best of my nature

reveals itself in play, and play is sacred,” wrote the feisty Aries author Karen Blixen, who sometimes used the pen name Isak Dinesen. The attitude described in that statement helps illuminate the meaning of another one of her famous quotations: “I do not think that I could ever really love a woman who had not, at one time or another, been up on a broomstick.” In my interpretation of this humourous remark, Blixen referred to the fact that she had a strong preference for witchy women with rascally magical ways. I bring this to your attention, Aries, because I’m inviting you to cultivate a Blixen-like streak of sacred play and sly magic in the coming days.

TAURUS (April 20-May 20): Taurus music legend Willie Nelson has played the same guitar since 1969. He calls it “my horse,” and named it after Trigger, a famous horse in Hollywood films. Although Nelson still loves the tones that come from his instrument, it’s neither sleek nor elegant. It’s bruised with multiple stains and has a jagged gash near its sound hole. Some Tauruses want their useful things to be fine and beautiful, but not Willie. Having said that, I wonder if maybe he will finally change guitars sometime soon. For you Bulls, the coming months will be time to consider trading in an old horse for a new one.

GEMINI (May 21-June 20): I’ve got a message for you, courtesy of poet Lisel Mueller. I think her wisdom can help you thrive in the coming weeks. She writes, “The past pushed away, the future left unimagined, for the sake of the glorious, difficult, passionate present.” Of course, it’s always helpful for us to liberate ourselves from the oppressive thoughts of what once was in the past and what might be in the future. But it’ll be especially valuable for you to claim that superpower in the coming weeks. To the degree that you do, the present will be more glorious and passionate and not so difficult.

CANCER (June 21-July 22): When Lewis Carroll’s fictional heroine Alice visits the exotic underground realm known as Wonderland, she encounters two odd men named Tweedledee and Tweedledum. The latter tells her, “You know very well you’re not real.” He’s implying that Alice is merely a character in the dream of a man who’s sleeping nearby. This upsets her. “I am real!” she protests, and breaks into tears. Tweedledum presses on, insisting she’s just a phantom. Alice summons her courageous wisdom and thinks to herself, “I know they’re talking nonsense, and it’s foolish to cry about it.”

I suspect you Cancerians may have to deal with people and influences that give you messages akin to those of Tweedledum. If that happens, be like Alice.

LEO (July 23-Aug. 22): “The less you fear, the more power you will have,” says the rapper known as 50 Cent.

I agree with him. If you can dissolve even, say, 25 per cent of your fear, your ability to do what you want will rise significantly, as will your influence and clout. But here’s the major riddle: How exactly can you dissolve your fear?

My answers to that question would require far more room than I have in this horoscope. But here’s the really good news, Leo: In the coming weeks, you will naturally have an abundance of good insights about how to dissolve your own fear. Trust what your intuition tells you. And be receptive to clues that serendipity brings you.

VIRGO (Aug. 23-Sept. 22): For his film Parasite, Virgo filmmaker Bong Joon-ho received Academy Awards for Best Picture, Best Director, and Best Original Screenplay.

In his natal horoscope, Joon-ho has Pluto conjunct his sun in Virgo, and during the time Parasite began to score major success, Saturn and Pluto were making a favourable transit to that powerful point in his chart. I’m expecting the next six months to be a time when you can make significant progress toward your own version of a Joon-ho style achievement. In what part of your life is that most likely to happen? Focus on it. Feed it. Love it.

LIBRA (Sept. 23-Oct. 22): According to my analysis of the astrological omens, the coming weeks will be a favourable time for you to seek out, seduce, and attract luck. To inspire you in this holy task, I’ll provide a prayer written by Hoodoo conjurer Stephanie Rose Bird: “O sweet luck, I call your name. Luck with force and power to make change, walk with me and talk through me. With your help, all that can and should be will be!” If there are further invocations you’d like to add to hers, Libra, please do. The best way to ensure that good fortune will stream into your life is to have fun as you draw it to you.

SCORPIO (Oct. 23-Nov. 21): Scorpio comedian John Cleese does solo work, but many of his successful films, albums, stage shows, and TV programs have arisen from joining forces with other comedians. “When you collaborate with someone else on something creative,” he testifies, “you get to places that you would never get to on your own.” I propose you make this your temporary motto, Scorpio. Whatever line of work or play you’re in, the coming weeks will offer opportunities to start getting involved in sterling synergies and symbioses. To overcome the potential limitations of physical distancing, make creative use of Zoom and other online video conferencing.

SAGITTARIUS (Nov. 22-Dec. 21): “Wherever I am, let me never forget to distinguish want from need,” vows author Barbara Kingsolver. “Let me be a good animal,” she adds. That would be a stirring prayer to keep simmering at the forefront of your awareness in the next six weeks.

According to my understanding of the astrological omens, you’ll be getting clear signals about the differences between your wants and needs. You will also discover effective strategies about how to satisfy them both in the post-pandemic world, and fine intuitions about which one to prioritize at any particular time.

CAPRICORN (Dec. 22-Jan. 19): Writing some Chinese characters can be quite demanding. To make “biáng,” for example, which is used in the name for a certain kind of noodle, you must draw 58 separate strokes. This is a good metaphor for exactly what you should avoid in the coming weeks: spending too much time and devoting too much thought and getting wrapped up in too much complexity about trivial matters. Your focus should instead be on simple, bold approaches that encourage you to be crisp and decisive.

AQUARIUS (Jan. 20-Feb. 18): Singer-songwriter Jill Scott is strongly committed to her creative process.

She tells us, “I was once making a burger for myself at my boyfriend’s house and a lyric started pouring out and I had to catch it, so I ran to another room to write it down, but then the kitchen caught fire. His cabinets were charred, and he was furious. But it was worth it for a song.” My perspective: Scott’s level of devotion to the muse is too intense for my tastes. Personally, I would have taken the burger off the stove before fleeing the scene to record my good idea. What about you, Aquarius?

According to my analysis, you’re in a phase when creative ideas should flow even better than usual. Pay close attention. Be prepared to capture as much of that potentially life-altering stuff as possible.

PISCES (Feb. 19-March 20): To protect ourselves and others from the pandemic, most of us have been spending more time than usual at home—often engaged in what amounts to enforced relaxation. For some of us, that has been a problem. But I’m going to propose that it will be the opposite of a problem for you in the next three weeks. In my astrological opinion, your words to live by will be this counsel from author and philosopher Mike Dooley: “What if it was your downtime, your loungingin-bed-too-long time, that made possible your greatest achievements? Would they still make you feel guilty? Or would you allow yourself to enjoy them?”

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RZ1144 proposes to rezone the lands located at 2077 Garibaldi Way from RS-E1 (Residential Single Estate One) to a new zone to allow for the development of 14 employee-restricted residential townhouse units contained in two buildings and 6 market residential townhouse units contained in two buildings, for a total of 20 units contained in four three-storey townhouse buildings.

The purpose of this online public information and input opportunity is to provide the public with information about Rezoning Application RZ1144, and the opportunity to provide input in the form of written comments, prior to Council’s further consideration of the application.

For information on Rezoning Application RZ1144, refer to the RMOW website www.whistler.ca/RZ1144 or contact the Planning Department at 604-935-8170 / planning@whistler.ca.

To provide input on the application members of the public are asked to provide written comments. Your name(s) and residence address (or business address if applicable) must be included. Please note that your comments will form part of the public record for this rezoning application. Comments can be submitted via email to planning@whistler.ca or by mail to the RMOW at 4325 Blackcomb Way, Whistler BC V8E 0X5 c/o the Planning Department.

To ensure the consideration of your views at this stage, your written comments must be received on or before June 28, 2020.

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Does Vail Resorts have the right to keep your money?

I HAVE A VERY LOW OPINION of insurance and insurance providers. I have a slightly higher opinion of insurance salespeople since they are, well, salespeople, and making a sale is their principle motivation. When actually collecting on an insurance claim, they have nothing to say about the outcome. I find it useful to refer to having the illusion of insurance rather than having insurance. You only know if you have it once you try to collect on it.

I come by my low opinion honestly, or as honestly as is possible, for someone who was paid by insurance companies.

BY G.D. MAXWELL As a new lawyer, I worked for a firm the client list of which included most insurance companies. We defended insurance companies against people who made claims against policies. Our role was to ensure as little money passed from the companies to people who believed they had insurance or people they’d harmed. In the late 1970s, insurance companies paid me $350/hour to wear people down to the point they’d settle for pennies on the dollar. Even as a nonbeliever, I knew if I did that very long I’d wind up in Hell.

The closest I came to Hell involved a 15-year-old, brand-new driver who, in a moment of social engagement with the friends riding with her, left the street, mounted the curb and crushed the life out of an eight-year-old who was riding her bike on the sidewalk. The driver and her parents were sued by the parents of the dead child.

Their insurance company passed the defence of the suit to my firm.

Despite numerous delays and a tsunami of discovery motions, the grieving parents refused all offers—totally insubstantial— to settle. We went to trial. It was my displeasure to, among other things, conjure an expert witness who, in disgusting detail, opined on the inability to “value” the life of an eight-year-old. After all, who knew what she might grow up to be?

As the trial dragged on, it was anyone’s guess how the verdict might play out. Given the look on the faces of some jury members, the best outcome we, which is to say the insurance company, could hope for looked increasingly expensive. Time for Plan B. With the dead girl’s mother on the stand, I pursued a line of questioning best described as gut-wrenching. As I’d hoped, she finally broke down and blurted out words to the effect, “It’s not their (the driver’s family) money we’re talking about.

It’s the insurance company’s.”

Having conjured up the image of a fatcat insurance company, who was in no way a party to the lawsuit, the judge had no

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option but to grant my motion for mistrial.

The dead girl’s family was devastated.

This circus would start all over again... at a date to be determined. They eventually settled for a pittance rather than go through it all again. The insurance company was happy. I left the profession shortly thereafter, feeling the fires of Hell singe whatever soul I had left.

So it comes as no real surprise to me the trip cancellation insurance (sic) Royal Bank offers with both my credit card and travel insurance policy isn’t worth the pixels it’s printed on. While it’s bad enough major airlines are weaseling out of providing refunds for cancelled flights and offering “credits” of dubious value and utility, it’s even more egregious these so-called insurance

And while there was no assurance the shortened ski season of 2019-20 would unfold as expected, the Epic™ Passes and multi-day tickets/discount cards people bought before the season even started were, if not insurance, certainly prepaid admission to the passion skiers and boarders share about sliding down snowy slopes. For a number of those people, that too, proved to be illusory.

Sometimes when you live in a bubble, it’s hard to understand the lives of people who live outside. Opening Day is Opening Day, right? It’s the first day to go skiing, right?

But if you live where most Canadians live—well east of Whistler—your Opening Day may not come until March: spring

Once again, profits flow to companies, costs are socialized over consumers and taxpayers.

And the circle of life goes round and round. policies are doing everything they can to avoid paying out according to the terms of their fine print. What part of providing a refund for a cancelled flight when it was cancelled, “... for any reason...” is unclear in any language other than insurance?

Once again, profits flow to companies, costs are socialized over consumers and taxpayers. And the circle of life goes round and round.

break. That’s when you and your family jump on a plane, find your way to Whistler, check in to a pricey hotel and hit the slopes for a week or two of skiing you’ve been looking forward to since you left Whistler a year ago.

And, if suddenly, Whistler is closed?

All the other Epic™ resorts are closed? You are out of luck, sucker. As a number of people have emailed me to complain, Vail

Resorts pocketed 100 per cent of the dough they spent for Epic™ Passes they couldn’t use. What they got in return was a credit for 80 per cent of that amount, but only if they agree to spin the wheel of fortune and sign up for another pass for the upcoming season, which may or may not happen and if so, to an extent unknowable. And even if there is a season, they’re not so sure they want to jump on another plane and risk it.

But if they don’t, tough noogies. The credit they’re getting for the privilege of having Vail Resorts keep their unearned money is only good for one season.

One writer summed it up succinctly: “This sucks!”

Indeed, it does. Even more in light of the increase in next season’s pass prices far in excess of inflation.

But, c’mon, it’s not like Vail Resorts doesn’t have a heart.

Its director of communications, Johnna Muscente, was quoted in this week’s Globe and Mail saying, “The biggest thing that we can do as a company and as an industry is provide assurance. We need to provide our guests time and flexibility to their travel plans, and keep their health and well-being at top of mind.”

Johnna, in case you’ve been living on another planet, your company has provided zero assurance. In fact, the most recent effort to pretend you’re not keeping money that doesn’t rightly belong to you is negative assurance. And as for flexibility? Vail Resorts’ pass policy is a very good example of the kind of flexibility I used to see in Yoga for Stiff Old Guys classes. Creak, crack.

Consultants have a word to describe Johnna’s sentiments: Bafflegab. Normal folk have another word. But the editor hates it when I use it in print. n

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