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JUNE 10, 2021 ISSUE 28.23

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PULSE CHECK

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impact of COVID-19 on young adults

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OLD GROWTH

Whistler’s Cheakamus

Community Forest is at a crossroads

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ON BOARD

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Indigenous youth connect to their land

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30 Metal on metal Navigating the global dearth of bike parts. - ByVince Shuley

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PULSE CHECK

COVID-19 has taken its toll on

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SPEAKING OUT

After an Indigenous woman’s

the mental health of Whistler’s young people, according to a recent

vigil for residential school survivors was interrupted by a racist taunt, the

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Cheakamus Community Forest is at a crossroads.

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COVER Graphic designer and former Pique production manager Karl is riding the hills and trails of England now and looking for spare parts to stay on the trail. - Cover by Karl Partington 4 JUNE 10, 2021

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13 PIQUE’N YER INTEREST Mindful travel shouldn’t just be a personal pursuit of selffulfilment, but needs to reckon with the power dynamics at play in the modern tourism industry.

66 MAXED OUT Those who are committed to sport fishing are often very committed to it, believing the activity is a metaphor for life.

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I don’t just mean in the Japanese forest-bathing sense (although I absolutely understand this value after 15 months of pandemic lockdown)—I mean the capital value it has to our local, provincial and national economy.

The last year has been one of incredible ups and downs for the community and all those who rely on tourism to make a living. It has also been throughout the COVID-19 months that most of us have asked ourselves what lessons we are going

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to take away from this slow down in order to reimagine ourselves better.

Pique has looked at this across various cover features, news stories and letters as well, and the general consensus is that we don’t really want to return to the nearovertourism we were experiencing before the pandemic.

Said Tourism Whistler president and CEO Barrett Fisher at a May 14 virtual panel discussion on the future of tourism hosted by the Whistler Institute, “… there is a real concern that too many travellers could visit a destination to death.”

So how do we get governments, hotel chains, the transportation sector, related tourism businesses, and the traveller to value nature in their balance-sheet equations?

In Whistler we understand this intuitively, but that does not mean that all levels of government reflect this— otherwise there would be no more logging of old-growth forests, no more fracking, no more destruction of our valuable wetlands, protection of our water, and B.C. would be taking steps to protect its

biodiversity.

A 2020 report by McKinsey & Company looked at this. “The report finds that expanding nature conservation could have measurable economic impacts, and makes a compelling case for investing in protecting natural capital.

“To reduce the erosion of natural capital, scientists and policy makers have called for the permanent conservation of at least 30% of the planet’s surface by 2030, nearly doubling nature conservation on land and in national waters.”

It is interesting to consider this finding given the conclusion of a report that came out late last month, which found that, “Generally, successive governments in B.C. have failed to meet international standards and other important legal commitments to protect and restore its biodiversity.”

The report card drawn up by environmental groups Ecojustice and the Wilderness Committee looked at B.C.’s performance in five broad areas of nature.

All but one category received a failing grade.

“The mistreatment of ecosystems and species in B.C. is a travesty. Living in a province with such vibrant diversity both at the species and ecosystem level is a gift,” said Charlotte Dawe, conservation and policy campaigner for the Wilderness Committee.

“Biodiversity is the backbone of life.

Yet B.C. governments, past and present, somehow remain ignorant to this reality.

Their dismal actions prove they don’t understand the severity of the biodiversity crisis.”

The groups are calling on B.C. to promote Indigenous-led conservation in order to meet targets for protected areas and commitments under the United Nations Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous People. Protected areas must recognize and advance Indigenous rights and title, knowledge systems and governance.

The World Economic Forum said, “natural capital can be defined as the

world’s stocks of natural assets—soil, air, water, grasslands, forests, wetlands, rocks and minerals—and all of its living things, from mammals and fish to plants and microbes. Conservation experts estimate that these resources contribute more than US$125 trillion to the global economy every year.”

Another group, the Capitals Coalition, a global consortium of 380 initiatives and businesses, is trying to “change the math.”

The organization seeks to persuade at least half of the world’s businesses, financial institutions and governments to incorporate natural capital into their decision-making by 2030—Canada is doing this, but the path appears to be a long one.

At a municipal level, an organization called the Municipal Natural Assets Initiative (MNAI) is helping local governments understand and manage natural assets within their core financial and asset systems just as they would with critical engineered alternatives.

It’s not about putting a dollar figure on our natural assets, it’s about valuing them and what they do in the same way as we might, say, our sewage and water plants, and that means recognizing the jobs they support, as well as the importance of their upkeep and protection.

Whistler is in the early stages of its own MNAI assessment and we will likely see a Phase 1 report in the coming weeks (stay tuned to Pique for more on this). But by way of example the Initiative did some work in Gibsons, B.C., and found that naturally occurring ponds in White Tower Park provided $3.5 to $4 million of storm-water storage services annually.

The natural world needs a seat at the table, now more than ever before, and as Marco Lambertini, Director General of the World Wildlife Fund (WWF) said, “…

Humankind faces an important choice: to take concerted action to protect the planet and change our relationship with the natural world or squander that opportunity.” n

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LETTERS TO THE EDITOR

Off-leash dog culture pervasive in Whistler

experience of every other living creature.

The leash laws exist for a reason, and we need to stop normalizing the presence of off-leash dogs, particularly within the pages of Pique.

Kate Heskett // Whistler

I was heartened to read Pique’s feature article two weeks ago, “Green Lake is a hub of biodiversity: so why aren’t we doing more to protect it?” (Pique, May 27.)

A large chunk of the article spoke to the importance of protecting the only remaining area of sandy shoreline that hosts nesting shorebirds. The area, known to locals as “The Spit” or the “Fitz fan,” is located within easy walking distance of the Nicklaus North Golf Club and is a popular spot on a hot day.

Throughout the article many hazards to nesting shorebirds were highlighted, including illegal campfires, and boat and float plane traffic. One of the stressors focused on was the presence of dogs, particularly dogs that are off-leash. While leashed dogs are currently allowed to walk a section of the shoreline, the feature story spoke about how off-leash dogs pose a particular threat to nesting and migrating shorebirds.

You can imagine my surprise then, when I turned to the photo spread in the “Partial Recall” section of the same edition and discovered two large photos of off-leash dogs in Whistler parks! The areas depicted, the Ancient Cedars Trail and the Cheakamus River Trail,

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are part of the Whistler hiking trail network and subject to the same Whistler bylaws that state that dogs are to be on-leash at all times, except in designated and signed off-leash areas (located at Alpha Lake, Rainbow Lake, Lost Lake and Bayly Parks).

Dog culture is huge in Whistler, and unfortunately many dog owners have decided to ignore the leash rules.

This is evident whenever I step foot on any of the trails around Whistler. Recently, on the Fitzsimmons Nature Trail, I chose to remind a dog owner that their dog should be on a

I have been a regular visitor to Whistler Blackcomb for more than 20 years spending approximately two weeks a season in this beautiful place. We live in Ottawa, and our son has lived in Whistler for 11-plus years and is happily settled there as his home with his partner.

My 10-day Edge Card was never activated for the 20/21 season. A knee replacement in Dec. 2020 did not allow early season skiing, and later season skiing was not possible due to essential travel only [recommendations surrounding COVID-19]. Then the resort closed.

I have spent more than 15 hours on hold with Vail Resorts and its claims people, have filled out forms, have been promised a call back five times over the past two months and nothing.

The precious season cut short provided a partial refund based on days used. That was fair. Now for this past season it seems that Vail Resorts’ approach is to frustrate passholders through lack of response and process to deal with the volumes.

I have already ordered my 21/22 pass with many unknowns, but I am feeling very

leash. I was standing next to, and pointed out, the large white sign that the dog owner was passing, installed by the Resort Municipality of Whistler, that stated explicitly that dogs on this trail are required to be on-leash.

After offering the sign a passing glance, the dog owner said, “Thank you” and continued down the trail without attaching the leash they were carrying to their dog.

The trouble is, off-leash dogs are everywhere. And the more people see them the more they feel justified in their personal choice to prioritize the experience of their dog over the

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LETTERS TO THE EDITOR N unappreciated as a 20-year-plus client that flies across the country to ski and support the local economy, not to mention visit with family.

Whistler is letting its new U.S. owners degrade the great customer experience Whistler is known for.

Now Guest Services at Whistler Blackcomb is closed and we are forced to deal with nonresponsive Vail Resorts.

Mike Hayes // Ottawa

Gardening not a hobby!

I have for many years read [GD Maxwell’s] reports in the Whistler Pique and enjoyed all of them.

Your latest report for summer 2.0 is excellent as regards a hobby (Pique, May 27, “A gardener’s gospel”).

Your description of gardening etc. is absolutely correct!

My personal idea re: gardening is to have my wife head for the grocery store for food—I will be golfing after years of this sport.

Jogging and sailing are definitely out! I have three sons with sailboats who allow me to

intended target, the viewer; fear, death, kill, save, only chance, only hope for survival, care ad nauseam. The reason it works is that the news is scripted to come across as all about issues that affect you, the viewer. The subliminal message is, “We really care about you. We want to protect you. The whole world is working hard to make your life better.

Towards this end, we have Justin Trudeau wringing his hands while he recounts how he is pleading with the makers of vaccines to deliver the promised 500 million doses that he needs to protect Canadians. The fact that the population of Canada is less than 50 million doesn’t register with most viewers because they are being entertained and entertainment mesmerizes.

For years I have witnessed the morphing of the news into entertainment scripted to sell. Now the book, Manufacturing Consent, confirms and expands on what I am seeing.

We can choose to read Manufacturing Consent and be jolted back to consciousness. Or we can choose to be entertained and confirm what Rocancourt alluded to; that we are the problem.

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Weeds to control, soil and vine nutrients and suckers to prune are out.

Worms having sex are definitely out, and not arousing!

As a retired surgeon for many years your weekly columns are a wonderful read. Thank you.

Andrew Moore // Whistler

Don’t believe everything you see Christophe Rocancourt, the international con artist who plied his trade in Whistler in 2001, stated in a Vancouver Sun interview that he wouldn’t be able to lie to people if they weren’t willing to believe his lies, implying that those who choose to believe his lies are the problem.

He is merely the liar. I concur.

It’s the willingness of the masses to believe almost anything without question if it serves to entertain them (which Rocancourt excelled at) that is the problem. What is portrayed as the news today is in reality a scripted sales pitch with actors posing as news reporters. Thus Global News is owned by Corus Entertainment.

In what amounts to a relentless campaign of propaganda, the same 15-minute news segment plays over and over again through a two- or three-hour newscast in what amounts to sell, sell, sell and sell some more.

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Israel-Palestine conflict needs context Keith Reynolds shared his narrative on the Israel-Palestinian conflict (Pique, June 3, “It’s easier to get to heaven that to get to the end of the street”). Here is mine. It can be summarized as: actions have consequences and stories need context.

Israel was created by the United Nations in 1947 as part of a partition plan to create a small Jewish State of Israel and a bigger State of Palestine, with an internationalized Jerusalem. Israel accepted and declared a state in May 1948. Palestinians and five Arab nations declared war. Israel survived and by the armistice had enlarged its size.

The West Bank and Gaza were 100-per-cent Palestinian but ruled by Jordan and Egypt. The Palestinians turned down a state to destroy Israel and ended with less land and no independence.

This was the status quo for 19 years.

There were no settlements: the territories were controlled by Egyptians and Jordanians, and Jews were not allowed into East Jerusalem even to worship at the Western Wall.

In 1967, Syria and Egypt were mounting troops for a war of annihilation. I was having trouble studying for Grade 12 finals in Toronto, with nightly news showing Egyptians calling for Jews to be thrown into the sea. I was looking at a second holocaust, 22 years after 6 million Jews were killed. My female cousin in Jerusalem told me of sitting in a shelter, and with gallows humor her friend said, “they will

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LETTERS TO THE EDITOR rape you last since you are so skinny.”

Israel won the Six-Day War, a defensive war, and captured the old city of Jerusalem, the West Bank and Gaza. Once again, the Palestinians and their Arab “allies” had chosen to destroy Israel and ended with less land and no independence.

Seven years after the Oslo agreements (1993) recognized the Palestine Liberation Organization and the legitimacy of the Jewish state, its then-leader Yasser Arafat came to Camp David with U.S. President Bill Clinton and Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Barak to finalize a peace arrangement and establish a Palestinian State that shared East Jerusalem—everything the Palestinians now claim to want.

Arafat abruptly left and the second Intifada (an attack of suicide bombers against Israeli civilians, restaurants, buses etc.) was unleashed on Israel. About 1,000 Israelis were killed, mostly civilians just living their life until a bomb exploded in their faces. To stop bombers from entering Israel the barrier wall was built. What sane nation in the world would not do the same?

By 2001, Israel had a right-wing PM, Ariel Sharon. In 2005 he gave up Gaza. Around 9,000 Israelis were forced to leave their homes and businesses, and all was turned over to the Palestinian Authority. By 2007 the terrorist group Hamas in the Battle of Gaza took over, dividing Palestinians into two entities. Soon bombs were flying into Israel from Gaza.

In 2007 PM Ehud Olmert would offer even more and the Palestinians refused. The peace movement was dying.

In 1974 I was in Israel for the academic

year. My dorm was near the western campus of the Hebrew University. Some nights Katusha rockets flew over our heads trying to hit the University. These were relatively primitive rockets. Today Gaza sends rockets to Beersheva that attack residential civilian buildings near where my Canadian-born daughter and her family live. Israel hits back at the source of those rockets while trying to minimize collateral damage. Do I really have to justify that kind of self-defense?

Keith Reynolds ends by saying, “if the UN knew in 1947 what Israel is doing today, the vote would never have passed.”

I would say, “if the UN knew in 1947 what Israel is doing today, they would have partitioned Palestine into the small Jewish state and put the larger state of Palestine under UN control until they could successfully govern themselves, and live in peace with their neighbour Israel. Can you imagine how prosperous and peaceful that region would be today?”

Rabbi Paul Plotkin, Rabbi Emeritus Temple Beth Am // Whistler

For the record: In an article last week (“From Highway 99 to Fairy Creek, Whistlerites stand for old growth,” June 3) it was incorrectly stated that the Cheakamus Community Forest logs oldgrowth both for timber and fuel thinning. While it continues to log old-growth for the timber market, fuel-thinning work in the CCF does not involve the removal of old growth. n

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Mindful travel shouldn’t be only a personal pursuit THERE’S BEEN A LOT of ink spilled in the pandemic—including in these here pages—about what the future of tourism is going to look like.

We already know there’s no going back to business as usual, with tourism hotspots such as Whistler, Venice, Valencia and others calling for more sustainable forms of travel well before COVID-19 forced the

BY BRANDON BARRETT industry into a standstill.

Much of the talk about tourism’s future has centred on the concept of “mindful travel,” and tour companies from Australia to India are now marketing travel packages with unhurried itineraries meant to promote a deeper connection to nature and longer stays at a destination.

These are undeniable positives in the ongoing shift towards a more equitable and conscientious global tourism landscape. I just hope tourism can avoid the pitfalls of the multi-billion-dollar wellness industry that has co-opted the very concept of mindfulness from collectivist Eastern religious traditions to better fit the West’s individualistic obsession with self-

actualization, telling customers (mostly women) that the only path to get there is by looking younger, thinner, better; that the only way to achieve inner peace is through pricy retreats and private gurus.

Travel, I would argue, is often viewed in a similar way: as a self-fulfilment tool for those privileged enough to afford it.

How many blog posts, guidebooks and travelogues have been penned extoling the personal value of travel without really acknowledging the toll it places on the people who service that need?

I’m reminded of that famous Mark Twain quote you still see scrawled on Instagram posts about travel being “fatal to prejudice, bigotry, and narrow-mindedness.” From the popular travelogue The Innocents Abroad, which recounted Twain’s 1867 “Great Pleasure Excursion” through Europe and the Holy Land, the book gave a rare window into cultures that most Americans of the time could only conjure in their imaginations. It’s clear, even through the satirical lens Twain excelled at, that he had vastly different opinions of certain cultures versus others. He calls the French Emperor the “representative of the highest modern civilization, progress, and refinement,” while, later in the same passage, describes the Ottoman Emperor as the “representative of a people by nature and training filthy, brutish, ignorant, unprogressive, [and]

superstitious.” Twain holds up his inflated sense of cultural superiority as proof of an expanded worldview, something I’d argue still infects the Western perspective on travel in subtle ways.

That’s not to say there isn’t inherent value in travel. Twain wasn’t wrong to say that exposure to cultures different can come with incredible benefits, but if we want to create a more mindful form of tourism, then we have to, unlike Twain, acknowledge our position near the top of the travel hierarchy and be honest about the transactional nature of tourism. It also doesn’t mean you have to be saddled with shame every time you go on vacation.

It’s something University of Washington (UW) professor Dr. Anu Taranath tackles in her book, Beyond Guilt Trips: Mindful Travel in an Unequal World, which was informed by her many human-rights-themed trips with UW students to India, Mexico and elsewhere.

“Mindful travel in an unequal world isn’t about getting on a plane to go somewhere— it’s about paying attention, and noticing positionality in relation to each other,” she said in 2019 interview with UW News. “It’s about understanding that we are all living in a much longer history that has put us in different positions of advantage and disadvantage, and equipped us with very few tools to talk about it.”

It’s these tough conversations, about

power, privilege and moral responsibility that should be happening at home in our own communities well before setting down in the next vacation destination.

So do your homework. Try to understand a place, its culture, customs, history and power dynamics, and where you sit within it. Read sources that go beyond the Lonely Planet guidebooks, from grassroots leaders and community groups working on the ground, from voices that have been historically maligned in the mainstream. Take the time to understand the Indigenous rights, traditional place names and customs of the land you’ll be visiting, and if necessary, seek permission to come onto the territory.

And when it comes time to shell out your hard-earned dollars on vacation, make sure you understand exactly where that money is going and who you’re supporting.

You can even take it a step further and pay a land tax (although I had trouble finding a Canadian equivalent, the Indigenous women-led Sogorea Te’ Land Trust out of the Bay Area is a great example of this) or donate to groups like the Black Trans Travel Fund that are dedicated to fostering a safer, more accessible tourism landscape for all.

After all, travel can’t truly be considered mindful until it moves beyond the individual and takes into account all sides of the tourism equation. ■

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COVID taking toll on Whistlerites’ mental health, survey says CTC SURVEY RESULTS OFFER GLIMPSE INTO COVID LIFE FOR YOUNG PEOPLE IN WHISTLER

BY BRADEN DUPUIS YOUNG ADULTS are generally happy to call Whistler home, but the major barriers like housing, affordability and access to services were only exacerbated by COVID-19, according to recent survey results released

by Communities That Care (CTC) Whistler.

Of 809 respondents to CTC’s Young Adult Survey—conducted from Jan. 15 to Feb. 15—83 per cent said they were somewhat or very satisfied with Whistler as a place to live, while 44 per cent said they plan to stay for several years or longer.

If they can make livable wages and find a steady, stable place to live, that is.

“Some of the verbatim responses … are heart wrenching,” said CTC chair Cathy Jewett.

“The first time I read it I really felt emotionally impacted by it, for sure, and it helped me understand more about what, mainly our frontline workers, were going through during COVID.” Coinciding with a spike in COVID-19 cases among Whistler’s young people, the survey (which polled people aged 18 to 30) provides a snapshot of a very unique time in Whistler’s history.

The survey just happened to land in the midst of “the biggest outbreak that we’ve seen in the community,” Jewett said, adding

COVID CONCERNS Communities That Care chair Cathy Jewett presents to Committee of the Whole in 2014. This year’s survey landed in the midst of Whistler’s worst outbreak of COVID-19.

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that the results offer insight into challenges around living and working conditions, as well as access to services and personal finances.

“And the biggest impact, I think that we can safely say, was in their mental health.”

Respondents reported high levels of anxiety (65 per cent) and depression (51 per cent), as well as high levels of stress (46 per cent).

Seventy per cent said their mental health has worsened since the beginning of the pandemic, and 31 per cent reported feeling “sad or hopeless almost every day for two weeks.”

Four per cent—36 people—said they had seriously considered suicide because of the pandemic.

COVID anxieties aside, 68 per cent of respondents said they were most worried about their future, 52 per cent said their finances, and 44 per cent said the climate crisis.

Only 30 per cent of respondents rated their mental health as “good” or “very good.”

“Affordable housing is mental health care. Transportation, jobs, not living eight people to a two-bed, one-bath is mental healthcare,” said one respondent.

“Good wages, working conditions and not working 60+ hours a week to share said two-bed is mental healthcare. Mental health care is not ONLY yoga + a phone number for a therapist that costs more than you make in a week.”

COPING MECHANISMS With so many people reporting high levels

of anxiety and depression, substance use among young adults was once again prevalent among survey respondents.

“It’s really interesting to see that the data on substance use, alcohol in particular, didn’t change from 2016 [the last time the survey was conducted],” Jewett said.

“Even though nightclubs and bars and the whole nightlife were shut down, obviously people were finding other ways to use.”

Alcohol is by far the most commonly used substance among Whistler’s young people, with 74 per cent of respondents saying they drank at least once a week, and 31 per cent saying they had five or more drinks at least once a week.

Thirty six per cent said they used cannabis at least once per week, while seven per cent said they used cocaine at least once a week, and 13 per cent said they used it once or twice per month.

Ten per cent of respondents—about 80 people—reported witnessing an overdose since living in Whistler, and three per cent said they had overdosed themselves. “[It’s] a lot more than I think people would expect happens in this community,” Jewett said.

Forty-nine per cent reported drinking so much they blacked out in the past year, 24 per cent said they had gone to work under the influence, and 15 per cent said they had operated a motor vehicle.

Fifty-three per cent of respondents said they were concerned about the level of substance use they see in Whistler.

“The RCMP continue to address substance use … and overconsumption of alcohol with community outreach and

education, and one of the things that we know also is that the RCMP is responding to more mental health calls than they may have in the past,” Jewett said.

“So how well equipped are they for that?”

The survey responses show there is a strong appetite for alcohol-free events in the resort, though knowledge of LUNA (Late and Unique Nighttime Alternatives) events was poor, with 56 per cent saying they were unaware of the group.

“People really miss night skiing on the Magic Chair, and doing film nights, and laser tag at the library,” Jewett said.

“The kinds of things that you can’t really do when you’ve got a pandemic going on.”

HOUSING HURDLES Unsurprisingly, the most frequently cited recommendation for improving life in Whistler was to fix the housing crisis.

“This pandemic has proven that the housing here needs to be sorted,” wrote one respondent. “People like us living in cramped conditions put us even more at risk. We are literally living in each other’s pockets.”

According to the survey, 54 per cent of Whistler’s young adults are spending more than 30 per cent of their income on housing, and 55 per cent said they are “somewhat” or “very” concerned about housing costs.

The majority of respondents said they shared a home with one to four people, while 38 per cent said they shared a bedroom with another person.

“One of the big issues that creates a

NEWS WHISTLER lot of angst and a lot of stress for people is the instability of their housing—they don’t know when it’s going to be sold, and if it is sold, what happens next?” Jewett said.

With Whistler’s real estate market hotter than it’s ever been, the resort’s neighbourhoods are seeing massive turnover through home sales, demolitions and renovations.

“How are we tracking the loss of rental— not just suites, but rental housing … what kind of bed numbers are we losing a year, for instance?” Jewett said.

“The [Resort Municipality of Whistler] is building housing, and rental housing, but is it the right kind?”

While she’s a municipal councillor herself, Jewett sees her volunteer role with CTC as completely separate from her role at the council table, “because I want to be able to say some really hard things, and especially around housing,” she said.

“I think we need more data on what’s happening as far as market rental housing goes.”

CONSISTENT THEMES The most interesting part of the report, in the opinion of its author Lizi McLoughlin, is how consistent the responses were.

“It really stood out to me across all of the themes how much people just want to build a life in this town, and the barriers that they feel are put in front of them,” McLoughlin said. “[It’s] all of the things we talk about all of the time around housing, around wages, around mental health and especially in the last few months around the isolation.”

The various stressors are interconnected, she added: low wages lead to stressful living situations; stress about housing impacts mental health, for example.

But another standout for McLoughlin was how many ideas young people have.

“So many [people in] this demographic don’t have any political power in the town, because they can’t vote, because [they’re] permanent residents or temporary workers,” she said.

“Improving those connections between decision-makers and this demographic of young people who are trying to build a life here would be the first step.”

At 29 years old, and having lived in Whistler for five years herself, McLoughlin can relate to those who shared their experiences in the survey.

“I’ve really gone through that experience of making this town my home, and I’ve seen that you really do need privilege, and you need mentors, and you need people to guide you through it, because it’s not an easy place to stay, is it?” she said.

“And especially in the last year, people who have stayed, I think they feel such a strong connection to the town; they so want to be a part of it, but they just feel like all of these things are just preventing them … [there’s] roadblocks at every turn.”

Asked if she had any advice for other young people, McLoughlin credited her day job with local charity Zero Ceiling, where she’s worked since 2017, as helping her find her own way in Whistler.

“Connecting with members of the community who are more established has probably been one of the main things that’s allowed me to really set down roots here,” she said. “And I think if people have the opportunity to do that and to connect across demographics and generations, it’s so beneficial.”

SEEKING SERVICES The survey’s findings are “100-per-cent” in line with what’s been happening at Whistler Community Services Society (WCSS) over the past 15 months, said executive director Jackie Dickinson.

While B.C.’s restart plan is starting to ramp up, demand for WCSS’ services hasn’t waned.

Prior to the pandemic, the food bank served about 300 servings of food a month, Dickinson said.

In both April and May of this year, that number was over 1,000.

Pre-pandemic, about 250 people sought one-on-one counselling through WCSS’ outreach services; the new average is between 600 and 700 meetings per month.

The WCSS team is also now delivering 14,000 meals and snacks to Whistler’s five local schools every month (pre pandemic it was 20,000 for the entire year).

“Our programs are absolutely running over budget … and so we’re hoping with the BC Restart Plan and the reopening of our tourism economy that some of those numbers will change, but they may not,” Dickinson said.

“So we have to absolutely be creative, inventive in our funding, and we need to advocate that these are the needs of the community, so that we can keep supporting these people.”

The lack of affordable housing has always been a concern in Whistler, but the pandemic has shone a brighter light on the impact that overcrowded, high-density living situations can have on a person’s well-being, Dickinson said.

As COVID-19 ran rampant, many people had to decide between going to work sick or staying home and not getting paid; some found themselves in isolation for more than 30 days at a time.

At the same time, many didn’t have the proper support systems, Dickinson said.

“That is what I think this data also shows: that there were a lack of systems and support systems in place … which then caused them to experience this virus in a way that other people did not,” she said.

Solving the big issues facing Whistler’s young adults means keeping the conversation going, Dickinson added.

“Someone once said to me, ‘is this a moment, or is it a movement?’ And it’s a movement,” she said.

“It’s a movement towards a better direction for communities across this country around what we need to do to support our most underserved people, and data out of the CTC survey absolutely supports our ability to sit at tables and say, ‘here are the numbers.’”

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Cheakamus Community Forest is at a crossroads FOREST MANAGER SAYS BOARD WILL VOTE ON FUTURE OF OLD-GROWTH LOGGING THIS WEEK

BY BRANDON BARRETT AS THE FAIRY CREEK blockades have thrust old-growth logging back into the forefront of British Columbians’ minds, the managers of Whistler’s Cheakamus Community Forest (CCF) face a longstanding dilemma.

“The big burning question is: does the community forest want to be going after these old-growth stands anymore?” said CCF manager Simon Murray.

It’s by no means a new question for the CCF, which hasn’t logged old growth since 2018 and has been looking to transition away from old-growth for years, in part to do with a lack of remaining commercially viable trees, as well as the recognition of Whistler’s status as a tourism destination for millions of visitors a year. “[Whistler is] the No. 1 tourist destination in British Columbia, and we are very sensitive to the fact that it isn’t the kind of place where you want to see big, large-scale industrial forestry going on,” Murray said.

“As we are very well aware, it’s an extremely sensitive area and the

recreational values are far higher than any of the timber values there, so we must keep that top of mind.”

On Thursday, June 10, the board will vote on the future of old-growth logging in the CCF. But ending the commercial harvest of old growth completely would present several economic hurdles. Managed by the Resort Municipality of Whistler, and the Lil’wat and Squamish Nations, the CCF currently has a maximum annual allowable cut of approximately 20,000 cubic metres, as set by the province.

“We simply cannot find that amount of volume anywhere,” Murray said.

So Murray has floated two ideas, both of which would require buy-in from the board and the province: reducing the CCF’s annual allowable cut to $15,000 m3, and lowering the minimum age limit of harvestable second-growth trees through the CCF’s carbon credit program from 70 to 50 years.

Since 2015, the CCF has had an agreement in place with Victoria to sell carbon offsets, independently verified credits for net greenhouse gas reductions that are used to compensate for the emissions of the buyer.

Bringing in an average of around $100,000 a year, Murray said, the CCF is only permitted

to sequester carbon from trees that are between 70 and 250 years old.

“Lots of logging happened in the 1960s, ‘70s, ‘80s and ‘90s that has left us with lots of young forest, but the middle aged, 70- to 100-year-old forest, we just don’t have any,” Murray said, estimating that around 10 per cent of the remaining trees in the CCF would qualify for the carbon credit program.

But continually harvesting young, second-growth forest would bring its own ecological challenges, said Claire Ruddy, executive director for the Association of Whistler Area Residents for the Environment.

“You end up basically eating into your future old growth,” she said, noting how, once logged, old forest never returns to its original state.

“It’s also about tree species,” she added. “Those 50-, 70-, 90-year-old trees, they’re planted trees. So they were planted to have maximum value from a forestry perspective, and those forests are not made up of the same species that the forest would originally and naturally be.”

Without old growth to retain moisture and help regulate a forest’s climate, the risk of wildfire goes up as well, Ruddy explained.

“The young second growth has lots of

ladder fuel, it has crown at all the same height, and it’s the easiest stuff for fire to spread in, and at pace. We don’t want to just be recreating these conditions again in 50 years,” she said.

Many of the old-growth trees that remain in the CCF “aren’t necessarily very valuable,” Murray said, given their size and species, which adds credence to Ruddy’s view that the forest’s ecological and recreational potential are its real economic drivers.

“In the Sea to Sky, we have lots of opportunities to gain economic value out of our forest in ways that don’t involve logging,” she said. “Old forest is becoming globally rare and more rare as time goes on, so to have standing old growth through the Sea to Sky gives us opportunities to create new economic models with things like foraging tours, interpretive and learning opportunities.”

The CCF does have plans to log old growth this summer for the first time in three years, but whether the project will go ahead depends largely on Thursday’s board vote. As they stand, plans are to harvest 11,440 m3 of hemlock, balsam and yellow cedar over a 17.4-hectare area of Callaghan Creek starting in July.

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Quarterly numbers way up for Vail Resorts LIFT REVENUE, NET INCOMES, PASS SALES ALL INCREASED IN COMPANY’S REBOUND YEAR attributed to strong pass sales growth, as well as “improved non-pass visitation due to the Company operating for the full U.S. ski season in the current year,” with particularly strong demand at its Colorado and Utah resorts.

Excluding its 17 Peak Resorts, which were acquired by Vail Resorts in 2019, the company said total visitation to its American destination mountain resorts and regional ski areas for the quarter was only down three per cent compared to the same period in 2019. That’s after taking into account Whistler Blackcomb’s almost 60-per-cent decline in visitation when compared to Q3 2019, as the resort dealt with the continued closure of the Canadian border and the early shutdown of operations in March.

Pass sales through June 1 “increased very significantly” compared to sales in the same period last year, although there were no spring sales deadline in 2020 due to COVID-19. Even compared to Vail Resorts’ pre-pandemic year of 2019, however, sales for the quarter were up approximately 50 per cent in units and 33 per cent in sales dollars, the company said.

For the full selling season through Dec. 6, 2020, pass product sales were up roughly 20 per cent in units and 19 per cent in

BY BRANDON BARRETT VAIL RESORTS continues to rebound from a dismal 2020, with strong quarterly numbers across the board for the Colorado company—even as its largest ski resort, Whistler Blackcomb, was hampered by the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic and related travel restrictions.

For the third quarter ended April 30, 2021, the Broomfield-based company posted US$274.6 million in net income, an 80-per-cent jump compared to the same period last year. For comparison, Vail Resorts posted $292.1 million in net income for the third quarter of fiscal 2019, prior to the pandemic.

Total net revenue increased $195 million, or 28.1 per cent, to $889.1 million for the quarter.

Resort reported Earnings Before Interest, Taxes, Depreciation and Amortization were $462.2 million for the quarter, compared to $304.4 million for the same period last year, and $480.7 million for the third quarter of 2019.

Lift revenue, meanwhile, rose 54.1 per cent for the quarter, to $577.7 million, which the company primarily

GOING DOWN Visitation to Whistler Blackcomb was down roughly 60 per cent for the quarter compared to the same pre-COVID period in 2019.

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Katz went on to say that, while visitation and lift revenue figures improved throughout the quarter, “our ancillary lines of business continued to be more significantly and negatively impacted by COVID-19 related capacity constraints and limitations, particularly in food and beverage and ski school.”

Ski school revenue rose a modest $3.8 million, or five per cent, for the quarter, while retail and rental revenue rose $13.2 million, or 16.8 per cent. With capacity restrictions in place, dining revenue was way down, falling $16.3 million for the quarter, or 26.5 per cent.

Operating expenses increased $38.4 million, or 11.5 per cent, for the quarter, which was primarily due to operating for the full U.S. ski season this year.

As of April 30, Vail Resorts maintains $1.3 billion in cash on hand and $621 million of availability under its U.S. and Whistler Blackcomb revolving credit facilities.

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89% of Whistlerites over the age of 12 have received a dose of COVID-19 vaccine MOST RECENT REPORT SHOWS HOWE SOUND HEALTH REGION RECORDED FIVE NEW CASES OF CORONAVIRUS

BY BRANDON BARRETT NEARLY 90 PER CENT of Whistlerites over the age of 12 have received the COVID19 vaccine, which would appear to be the highest immunization rate in the province.

As of June 2, Vancouver Coastal Health (VCH) says 89.3 per cent of Whistlerites aged 12 and up have obtained at least one dose of vaccine. Although Whistler isn’t specifically shown on the BC Centre for Disease Control’s vaccination map, an 89.3-per-cent immunization rate would rank higher than any of the dozens of local health areas listed.

By comparison, the Central Coast had the next highest rate at 84 per cent, while Prince Rupert, which, like Whistler, was home to a mass vaccination campaign after an outbreak earlier this spring, shows an immunization rate of 74 per cent. The Howe Sound health region, which includes Whistler, Pemberton, Squamish, Lions Bay and parts of the southern Stl’atl’mx Nation, has a vaccination rate of 75 per cent.

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That dropped off steadily until March, when cases began to climb again, leading to the closure of Whistler Blackcomb for the season and a high of 218 new coronavirus cases for the week of March 22 to 28, as the resort became the North American epicentre for the P1 Brazil variant.

The most recent Whistler-specific update from VCH came in late April, when the health authority confirmed the resort had tallied 17 new cases between April 19 and 25, down from 72 the week prior.

The Howe Sound health region, meanwhile, has seen its case numbers follow suit, with just five new cases between May 23 and 29, the most recent data available.

Following the mass vaccination of eligible adults and workers in April, Whistlerites have now begun receiving invitations to obtain their second dose. Appointment time slots are typically added as weekly shipments of vaccine become available.

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NACI said if the same mRNA vaccine is not readily available, another mRNA vaccine can be considered interchangeable.

Henry said the possibility of mRNA mixing and matching will mostly affect those who received the Moderna vaccine for their first dose, owing to “spotty” supply issues, but it will ultimately be up to British Columbians to decide if they use different vaccines.

AstraZeneca was being administered in B.C. at pharmacies and pop-up clinics rather than at the mass vaccination sites where Pfizer and Moderna have been administered. Individuals who received their first dose of AstraZeneca at a pharmacy will be invited to obtain their second dose by the same pharmacy.

What remains unclear is how the process will work for those Whistler employees who received a first dose of AstraZeneca at pop-up clinics as part of the resort’s initial immunization push. Pique is awaiting more clarity on this point from VCH. -With files from Tyler Orton, Business in Vancouver n

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Health officials at both federal and provincial levels have said it is preferable Canadians are inoculated with the same product for both doses but the new recommendations now offer flexibility.

Canada is facing supply issues with AstraZeneca, which is a viral vector vaccine, while mRNA vaccines like Pfizer and Moderna have made up a far more significant portion of the country’s supply.

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Clock ticking on rezoning Whistler LUCs COUNCIL BRIEFS: STILHAVN BUSINESS LICENCE EXEMPTION APPROVED

BY BRADEN DUPUIS AS THE PROVINCIAL government’s 2022 deadline for rezoning Land Use Contracts (LUC) approaches (prior to automatic termination in 2024), the Resort Municipality of Whistler (RMOW) is shifting its approach to phasing out LUCs in the resort.

At its June 1 meeting, council endorsed a new streamlined approach for the process.

The RMOW began the process of rezoning its eight LUCs back in 2016, and since then has completed the process for three (in Alpine, Brio and Bayshores).

The five still remaining represent about 2,350 lots and 43 stratas.

With time running out, RMOW staff is looking to streamline the process for introducing the termination bylaws to council by removing the first step (seeking permission to proceed from council).

RMOW staff estimate removing the “permission to proceed” step will save about 150 hours of staff time and shorten the processing time for each remaining LUC file by one month.

Without the first step, staff will now prep a draft of the LUC-terminating bylaw; distribute it with an accompanying letter to owners of affected properties; give one month for owners to respond; review comments and make revisions as required; and introduce the bylaw to council for consideration of first and second readings.

Following that, a public hearing would be held prior to third reading and adoption.

To date, staff has proposed a “likefor-like” approach to the zoning that replaces an LUC, meaning most owners won’t notice a change to what’s already in place.

“Should staff recommend proposed zoning with significant differences from the like-for-like principle, staff propose to seek permission from council to proceed in advance of any communication with registered owners,” said planner Courtney Beaubien in a presentation to council.

To further speed up the process, the RMOW will send a letter to the Ministry of Transportation and Infrastructure advising of Whistler’s remaining LUCs, and advising the province that: “The replacement zoning will not change the

current land use, or increase development within the [LUC] area,” Beaubien said.

As some of the existing LUC parking requirements differ from the RMOW’s current zoning and parking bylaw, staff is recommending that parking in the replacement zoning reflect the municipal bylaw, she added.

“In particular, [municipal zoning] may require more parking and loading spaces in each LUC, or it may require less,” Beaubien said.

“Staff are recommending that parking reflect the current zoning requirements to bring consistency and clarity to the zoning that will replace the LUCs.” Where the parking requirements in the replacing zoning are more than what’s described in the current LUC, the existing parking would become legally non-conforming.

“For existing uses, the parking would not need to be updated should the termination bylaw require more parking than is currently within the particular [LUC],” Beaubien said.

Should council adopt any of the upcoming LUC termination bylaws, written notice will be provided to affected owners, who then have a right to apply to the Board of Variance for an exemption

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COUNCIL APPROVES EXEMPTION FOR STILHAVN Whistler’s mayor and council approved a business licence exemption for Stilhavn Real Estate Services at a special council meeting on June 1.

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But after considering an appeal from Stilhavn, council voted unanimously to grant the business an exemption.

“I appreciate that zoning is the way it is for a reason, but I feel that there is an exception to be made here given that it is off the beaten path, it’s not right on the Village Stroll, and it is a fitting business type for the space of that hallway,” said Councillor Jen Ford.

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Aggressive bear, poor attractant management prompts Cheakamus Lake trail closure THE CAMPGROUND CLOSURE IS EXPECTED TO REMAIN IN EFFECT FOR AT LEAST TWO WEEKS, SAYS BC PARKS

BY MEGAN LALONDE THE CHEAKAMUS LAKE Trail and Campground in Garibaldi Provincial Park are closed following reports of an aggressive, food-conditioned black bear in the area.

According to a spokesperson for the Ministry of Environment, BC Parks decided to issue a public safety notice and close the area to the public until further notice on Tuesday, June 8, following discussions with the BC Conservation Officer Service (COS).

The decision comes after conservation officers received numerous reports of a bear accessing unsecured food and garbage by the campsites since Friday, June 4, said COS Sgt. Simon Gravel.

The bear “doesn’t take no for answer,” Gravel said. “He’s been very persistent in approaching people. Obviously, it’s a learned behaviour.”

Despite being sprayed with bear deterrent on numerous occasions, the animal refuses to leave the area, even becoming comfortable enough around campers and trail users to approach and “sniff” people while they were

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sitting on logs, Gravel said.

“We can speculate here that with this level of persistence, that perhaps he was even fed by a human,” he added.

Conservation officers are not aware of any prior conflict concerning this particular bear, but said they have previously dealt with similar situations of black bears chasing hikers or runners after accessing food rewards in the Cheakamus Lake area. There will be no attempts made to relocate the animal from its natural backcountry habitat, Gravel said.

“The intention right now is to close the trail and remove all attractants, so all the reasons for this bear to be there. And hopefully, he’s going to move on.”

The closure will remain in effect until at least June 22.

Upon reopening, officials’ focus will be on informing visitors about bear-smart behaviour and backcountry etiquette, Gravel said. The Cheakamus Lake Campground is already equipped with bear caches that visitors should use to store food and other attractants out of reach of wildlife.

“The infrastructure is there to make sure that the public has everything they need to manage their food properly while camping,

CLOSED TO CAMPING BC Parks closed Whistler’s popular Cheakamus Lake Trail and campground on June 8, following reports of a food-conditioned black bear.

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but what’s missing is the education,” Gravel said. “People need to understand the consequences of [their] negligence … You shouldn’t leave any food behind when you camp in the backcountry like this.”

While attracting dangerous wildlife (even while camping in their habitat) remains an offence under the B.C. Wildlife Act, Gravel said people need to understand that those consequences don’t just include receiving a fine, but that their actions may result in the euthanization of an otherwise healthy bear.

Gravel said he and his colleagues will

attempt to haze the bear away from the area during the site’s closure, but are not optimistic that the animal’s behaviour will change without cooperation from the public.

“If the bear’s behaviour keeps being a risk to the public, we might run out of options,” he said. “So we’re doing everything as far as we can right now to mitigate the situation. We’re hoping for the best, but it’s really something that could have been avoided in the first place with proper attractant management.”

Gravel added, “When you choose to recreate in the backcountry like this, you have to be extremely responsible to not create such a situation.”

He encouraged all campers and trail users to head to BC Parks’ website for a refresher on proper backcountry behaviour as it pertains to wildlife.

The Ministry of Environment confirmed all campers with arrival dates between June 8 and June 22 will receive an email indicating their reservation is cancelled and that they will be provided a full refund, including all fees listed as non-refundable.

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George William Brooks September 7, 1940 – June 3, 2021

With sadness, we announce the passing of George Brooks, who passed away peacefully with his wife Barbara of 57 years, by his side. He is survived by his sons Charles (Angela) and Steven (Sandra) and grandchildren Finn and Ella, brothers Davis, Ray and Bob, and many nieces and nephews.

He was predeceased by his sister, Lorna McCormick.

George was born in Williams Lake, BC on September 7, 1940 to Cecil and Jeanette Brooks. Shortly after his birth, the family moved to Harrison Hot Springs where George grew up.

After graduating from Agassiz High School, George joined the RCAF and was stationed at Summerside, PEI. It was there that he met Barbara Jay. They married in 1963, a decision George called “the best he ever made” and they moved to Vancouver BC, where George worked at UBC in the physics department.

Sons Charles and Steven came along in 1965 and 1968.

Also during this time, George took up SCUBA diving, a hobby which changed the course of his career and brought many new friends into his and Barbara’s lives.

He began making wetsuits for friends and fellow divers in the Vanquatics Scuba Club and over the course of a few years, through his entrepreneurial spirit, he turned this into a successful manufacturing business - Brooks Wetsuits Ltd. The family moved to North Vancouver in 1983, where they opened a retail dive store, Capilano Divers Supply, another successful venture for George and Barbara.

They enjoyed dive-travel both locally and internationally where they formed many life-long friendships.

While camping and travelling through the monutains of BC and returning to North Vancouver through Pemberton, in 1996, they decided to make Pemberton their next home.

For many years George and Barbara wintered in Mexico with their dog Brooke, enjoying the hot sun. George, an avid animal lover, was often found tending the beach dogs with his first aid supplies - flea powder, eye and ear drops. The winters in Mexico were an adventure, travelling in their motorhome, creating wonderful memories and connections.

At home in Pemberton, George was involved in the community with trail building projects and as a volunteer for many WI community fundraising efforts.

He hiked and foraged for mushrooms, tended his amazing vegetable garden, and enjoyed the many hummingbirds that danced around his feeders.

A voracious reader, George was a supporter of the Pemberton Library, and he had tremendous knowledge across a wide variety of subjects. Although a quiet man, he loved a good debate about politics and government policies!

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RCMP closed racism investigation without talking to Indigenous woman who filed report TS’KW’WAYLAXW WOMAN SAYS RACIAL SLURS INTERRUPTED HER VIGIL FOR RESIDENTIAL SCHOOL VICTIMS

BY BRANDON BARRETT FOR TARA ALECK , last month’s horrific discovery of the remains of 215 children at a Kamloops residential school hit especially close to home.

A 43-year-old Ts’kw’waylaxw First Nations woman, Aleck’s parents were both survivors of the Kamloops Indian Residential School, and with last year’s death of her father still fresh in her mind, she decided to hold a small, intimate vigil in front of her Pemberton home on May 31.

With an abalone shell, sage for smudging, and a small, stuffed teddy bear by her side, Aleck was in deep prayer when she said she was interrupted by the sounds of “hysterical laughter” coming from a black truck passing by. Then, after dropping off a passenger a few doors down, Aleck said the driver slowly reversed the truck, stopping in front of her home, where the occupants continued laughing, “taunting me and calling me a Squaw, calling me a chug.”

“It was so degrading,” she added. “I’m still dumbfounded by it.”

Aleck later managed to snap photos of the truck, which was emblazoned with the logo for Pemberton-based Eduardo’s Carpentry, and provided them to police. Dissatisfied with the response from the company’s owner,

VIGIL INTERRUPTED Pemberton’s Tara Aleck said her vigil for residential school victims was interrupted by racist taunts on May 31.

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who was driving the truck at the time but did not make the racist comments, Aleck made an official report to police on June 3.

Aleck said the investigating officer promised to stop by to take her testimony and photos of the vigil, but never did. Aleck even enlisted the help of the Vancouver Rape Relief & Women’s Shelter, which contacted the RCMP on her behalf to push the investigation forward. Although the RCMP told Pique “multiple attempts” were made to reach Aleck, she said she never received a phone call, text or message from police and no officer ever visited her home.

“This is why our women go missing. You guys don’t care,” Aleck said, highlighting the reluctance she had to even report the incident given the historical mistrust between so many Indigenous communities and the RCMP. “I was going to be quiet about it. I ended up posting about it and my family was like, ‘You need to speak up,’” she added. “I really just wanted to be given the time of day and I felt like I wasn’t.”

In a prepared statement, Sea to Sky RCMP Insp. Robert Dykstra confirmed that, “regretfully, the file was concluded without obtaining a statement from the complainant, however, the two suspects were visited by the attending officer.”

After learning of the incident through social media, police said both Dykstra and acting Whistler-Pemberton zone commander Sgt. Sascha Banks contacted Aleck and committed to a full review of the investigation and complaint itself. Aleck said she is pursuing criminal charges.

“We are grateful that she conveyed her

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concerns to us,” Dykstra continued in the statement. “We shared our concerns with her about the way the file was handled and we assured her that a complete review of the file will occur and will be shared with the complainant to discuss next steps.”

The 24-year-old owner of Eduardo’s Carpentry, who refused to provide his full name, conceded to Pique that his employee’s racist remarks were out of line, but he feels the whole situation has been blown out of proportion on social media.

“My employee was the one who said it, and the thing I don’t find right is I’m the one that’s being targeted,” he said, claiming that he and his family have been targeted on social media and in the community since news of the incident emerged.

Eduardo, who said he is of Chilean and Indigenous descent and has family

members who also survived the Kamloops Indian Residential School, disagreed with some of Aleck’s telling of the situation. He claimed that Aleck was in the middle of the street, blocking traffic, while holding her vigil, not on her porch; that his employees weren’t laughing at her vigil, but rather “a funny line from a song” playing in the truck as they drove by; and that he didn’t reverse and stop the truck to further confront Aleck, but to exit the neighbourhood.

Aleck said numerous attempts were made to resolve the situation with Eduardo before getting police involved, but she was frustrated with his lack of personal accountability. For his part, Eduardo said he docked his employee’s pay and has placed him on suspension since the incident took place. He said he’s unsure if further disciplinary action will be taken.

“If I need him back, I’m going to have to bring him back,” Eduardo said. “I tried looking for guys but it’s extremely difficult right now, especially with COVID. I’m not trying to use it as an excuse or anything, it’s just the truth.”

Never expecting the situation to turn into what it did, Aleck said she is happy she spoke up, as she knows it’s what her father, double hereditary chief and Indigenous educator Fred Alec, would have wanted.

“My dad just passed away in September and this was a dream of his. He wanted to have acknowledgement of what happened to us,” she said.

“If I have this platform to create ripples of change in the water, then I’m going to use it.” n

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BY ALYSSA NOEL A NEW REHABILITATION project is currently underway to help restore parts of the landslide debris field at Capricorn Creek.

Back in 2019, Troy Bikadi, community and workplace health and safety officer with the Lil’wat Nation, connected with Veronica Woodruff, project manager and

the site,” she said.

This effort would also help with flood risk to the valley. “There’s a lot of material currently mobilized from that site downstream,” she added. “Updated flood mapping says we can anticipate ongoing deposition of material for decades. Anything we can do to stabilize the source of material is a good thing in managing this untenable flood risk.”

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co-founder of Clear Course Consulting Ltd. about his idea for the area.

The four-square-kilometre debris field is the result of the 2010 Mount Meager landslide, which sent 50 million cubic metres of debris into the valley below.

Virtually a “moonscape,” according to Woodruff, 11 years later, the untouched landscape has fragmented wildlife habitat and increased flood risk.

The pair applied for their first grant through the Habitat Conservation Trust Fund seed funding to develop a proposal and have been working on the project since, Woodruff told Village of Pemberton council at its last meeting on Tuesday, June 1. “[At] the mouth of the Capricorn Creek and Meager [Creek] … there’s a ton of mobile material sitting there that’s actively moving and eroding into the downstream reaches through freshet and all the storms, winter avalanches, that kind of thing,” she said.

“This is the kind of material that we want to start shoring up. There are landscape scale processes that have been done through things like mining and reservoir and reclamation work that we’re modelling our project proposal on.”

With unlimited funding, they could attempt to restore the entire area, but currently the more conservative plan is to create corridors with planted material, Woodruff said in a follow-up interview. That would help animals like bears, wolverines, moose and deer with crossing the massive swath of rocky land.

“We’re going to support the area to generate more quickly [by] augmenting the landscape with topsoil from industry work nearby—logging, mining operations. We can work with those partners to stockpile that topsoil then truck to these sites and incorporate the fungi and soil nutrients into

coho and chinook, which are found right up to the slide site, so the plan also incorporates habitat improvements along the river.

The plan is to first test a number of plots to see what works well before expanding to the rest of the area, Woodruff said.

Several different agencies and institutions have jumped on board with support—including Pemberton council during the meeting, which offered its support in any way it could—ranging from local governments to the provincial government, including the ministry of Forests, Lands, Natural Resource Operations and Rural Development.

BCIT has also expressed “extreme interest” in making the site their “living lab” for bachelor of science and master of ecological restoration students, as well as for their field diploma skills.

“The project aligns so well with so many of their programs, they’re pretty excited about this opportunity,” Woodruff said.

“This idea of a living lab where you can engage students with the project being led by Lil’wat, supported by government, partnered with NGOs, it has a really good partnership opportunity for their students.”

The project is expected to be rolled out over 10 years. If funding comes through, work can begin as early as the fall.

“A decade from now, we’ll be able to quantify how many square metres we were able to restore, what was successful and what wasn’t,” Woodruff said. “Because the landscape is challenging and requires machinery to create conditions where plants can grow, we have to test out techniques … A phased approach allows us to test what’s working. In the meantime, we’ll be restoring small pockets at a time and building off pieces that work.” n

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OIL GIANT ExxonMobil’s leaders have a long history of doing everything to keep the world from addressing climate change. They’ve buried company research showing the link between burning fossil fuels and a dangerously heating planet. They’ve sowed distrust and spread misinformation. They’ve lobbied politicians, set up and joined fake grassroots organizations, funded deniers and commissioned dubious reports, all to downplay or deny the risks to the climate—and humanity—of using their company’s products.

Exxon’s not the only company to have

BY DAVID SUZUKI behaved in such an incomprehensibly destructive manner, putting short-term profits over the long-term health of natural systems that make human and other life possible. But it’s one of the largest.

Now there’s a sign that even oil companies and their shareholders are facing the reality of an overheating planet. This spring, Engine No. 1—a small “activist investment firm” with a tiny stake in Exxon—managed to get three of its four nominees elected to the company’s 12-person board, despite efforts to defeat them.

“What the Board needs are directors with experience in successful and profitable energy industry transformations who can help turn aspirations of addressing the risks of climate change into a long-term business plan, not talking points,” an Engine No. 1 statement said.

The new board members, two with

cent by 2050 from 2016 levels—but with conditions the court found unacceptable.

With a growing divestment movement steering money away from coal, oil and gas, and a recent report by the normally conservative International Energy Agency saying there’s no place in a rapidly heating world for new fossil fuel development, these events signal the tide is turning.

It’s about time!

It’s taken an unrelenting catastrophe to make the industry (and governments and society) reluctantly start to face reality. This is tragic. We’d be much further along in the necessary energy transition, with far less economic and societal disruption, had companies like Exxon not worked so tirelessly to downplay and deny climate change risks and block progress. We’ve had more than four decades with enough scientific certainty about climate science to know we should have been doing more about it.

It’s not for a lack of solutions that we continue to waste valuable resources, burning in minutes concentrated energy stores that took millions of years to form.

It’s lack of awareness and political will, fuelled by a multi-million-dollar industry campaign to confuse. But awareness is growing, which pushes political action.

Recent events surrounding the oil industry show the importance of getting involved. The perseverance and commitment of people who care have spurred industry, governments and society to finally start waking up to reality.

Hundreds of thousands of young people taking to the streets sends a message.

Shareholder revolts and board shakeups

Recent events surrounding the oil industry show the importance of getting involved. oil industry backgrounds, are expected to champion the need for Exxon to diversify its investments as the world moves on from fossil fuels.

Exxon isn’t the only oil giant getting a wake-up call. Shareholders recently went against Chevron’s board, voting 61 per cent in favour of a proposal from Dutch advocacy group Follow This to force that company to cut carbon emissions from use of its products.

And a Dutch court ruled in favour of a lawsuit by seven groups including Greenpeace and Friends of the Earth Netherlands to get Shell to significantly deepen its planned greenhouse gas emission cuts.

The court ordered Royal Dutch Shell to reduce emissions for the Shell group and its suppliers and customers by 45 per cent by 2030 compared to 2019 levels. The company had planned to cut emissions 20 per cent by 2030, 45 per cent by 2035 and 100 per

send a message. Divesting from fossil fuels sends a message. Numerous court challenges send a message.

The message, as 350.org founder Bill McKibben says, is that we can’t negotiate with physics and chemistry. Adding massive amounts of greenhouse gases like carbon dioxide and methane to the atmosphere by burning coal, oil and gas, and destroying the natural systems that absorb and store carbon, like wetlands, grasslands and forests, puts the health and survival of humans and other life at great risk.

The fossil fuel era is ending. It’s time to find ways to shift fairly and equitably to better ways of living and powering our societies.

David Suzuki is a scientist, broadcaster, author and co-founder of the David Suzuki Foundation. Written with contributions from David Suzuki Foundation Senior Writer and Editor Ian Hanington. ■

OUTSIDER

A case against Bluetooth speakers in the outdoors I WAS ABOUT TO START this column with a cranky anecdote about the time I was jarred from my outdoor experience courtesy of a Bluetooth speaker or backpackmounted sound system, but there are just too many times this has happened to relate

BY VINCE SHULEY it to one specific incident. Earlier this week, a Tweet surfaced that made the rounds on the greater internet, not just in the outdoor community, but in what I’ll reluctantly term mainstream culture. It read: “Stop bringing shitty Bluetooth speakers on hikes. No one came to the woods to hear you listen to Katy Perry.”

And just like that, a sea of long-winded social media comments, angry letters to the editor and general grumbling in the public forum was summarized so succinctly that it got viral traction, saying what so many have felt for years.

If you read this column two weeks ago you’re probably familiar with my aversion to crowded BC Parks hiking trails, which are the likeliest venue for said travelling

THE SOUND OF SILENCE Blaring music in outdoor public spaces isn’t as cool as it used to be.

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jukeboxes. But as trails get more and more popular and Bluetooth speakers get smaller, cheaper and more annoying, the proliferation of noise pollution will continue deeper into the backcountry.

I don’t really understand the need or desire to have tunes blaring in one’s natural surroundings, but let’s start with some common sense guidelines.

Headphones are always an option, so why the blaring of pop music? Is it supposed to be some sort of rallying point for fellow douchebags? Even if you’re hiking in a group, having your headphone music at low volume in one ear will allow a decent level of situational awareness such as approaching wildlife or other hikers wishing to pass.

Conversations between party members can still happen while feeling the groove of

line when I say this: we don’t need your shitty music to liven up our ski day, nor do we need the jarring Doppler effect of your music when blowing by you on the cat track. Again, headphones are commonplace and acceptable; if you need a loudspeaker for your friends to find you, you’re doing it wrong. Thankfully the Bluetooth speaker hasn’t made its way to winter skin tracks yet, though I’m sure the people who blast their music in crowded backcountry huts are the most likely to do so.

I find it slightly more acceptable for groups with speakers that set up in a particular spot for a picnic or a camp, provided they keep the volume at a tolerable level and other groups can maintain distance. The top of the Chief or the summit of Black Tusk in the summer doesn’t really

“No one came to the woods to hear you listen to Katy Perry.”

music in your happy outdoor space.

The same goes for the ski hill. Those godforsaken backpack stereos have been around far longer than Bluetooth speakers, the bearers somehow thinking that dozens of other people in the lift line are experiencing the same vibe. I’ll happily speak for the dozens of people in the lift

qualify for that. Chilling by the Khyber’s smoke shack in the winter more so.

Then there are the waterproof Bluetooth speaker owners who insist on paddling to the soundtrack of their lives. The cool air near the water’s surface refracts and slows sound waves, effectively amplifying the sound across the water. Still or calm

water reflects sound too, adding to the amplification. This is why you can hear the voices of partiers at Rainbow Park from the other side of Alta Lake. The solution? You guessed it. Some water-proof headphones.

This isn’t a rant against music or even music in the outdoors. It’s simply acknowledging that there’s a time and a place to turn on that Bluetooth speaker and that isn’t when you’re moving through an outdoor area, whether on foot, on skis, by bike, by watercraft or otherwise.

Boomboxes were popular in the ‘80s and were instrumental in the rise of hip hop in urban communities, though that subculture waned after people got sick of hearing them on every street corner and a little piece of personal audio technology called the Walkman came along. The Bluetooth speaker holds no such cultural gravitas that the Boombox did in its heyday. As photojournalist Lyle Owerko describes in his book The Boombox Project: The Machines, the Music, and the Urban Underground: “Towards the end of any culture, you have the second or third generation that steps into the culture, which is so far from the origination, it’s the impression of what’s real, but it’s not the full definition of what’s real. It’s just cheesy.”

I rest my case.

Vince Shuley enjoys the sound of nature.

For questions, comments or suggestions for The Outsider email vince.shuley@gmail.com or Instagram @whis_vince ■

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FEATURE STORY

Navigating the global dearth of bike parts

BY VINCE SHULEY

Mountain biking has never been the easiest sport to get into. It can be

technically challenging, the equipment is relatively expensive and it can really hurt when you fall. However, if you can make it through that steep and costly part of the learning curve, it can be one of the most rewarding activities to undertake in the outdoors. But like any vehicle or mode of transport, bicycles are linked together with hundreds of small parts of metal, plastic and rubber, parts that wear out with use. And being ridden on Whistler’s world-class and famously burly trail system, parts break.

The supply chain for those bike parts has remained relatively stable over the years as cycling enjoyed stable growth, but the sudden surge of outdoor activity in the last 18 months of the COVID-19 pandemic threw the proverbial stick in the spokes. Bikes were bought, sold and resurrected from dusty storage sheds in order to get outside for some physically distanced, familyfriendly quality time. All those used bikes needed parts to get rolling. Like all sudden market events, demand quickly outstripped supply.

The problem facing the entire cycling industry now is: • How do we source enough replacement parts to keep current bike owners happy?

• How do we source enough parts to build the shiny new bikes so many people want to buy?

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“Normally we have an excess of supply and our entire job is getting it into the stores and making sure everyone is well stocked,” says Dylan Smith, Vancouver Island and Lower Mainland sales representative for distributor Live to Play Sports.

“Now, there’s no supply. It’s essentially backordering stuff, providing [shops] with ETAs and managing expectations down the road. It’s a strange world to live in as a [sales] rep for sure.

It’s almost like the whole job description has changed.”

Over the course of his career, Smith has seen shortages and delays with products coming to the market before, but nothing on the scale of what he has seen over the last 15 months.

“This is like a one-in-a-hundred-years type of event, a kind of shortage you’d see during World War II or the Spanish Flu or something,” he says.

“It’s so global and it’s impacting so many industries,

not all consumers are recognizing that.”

The sheer scale of the global COVID-19 pandemic has affected countless industries and their workers, especially in Southeast Asia, where much of the world’s consumer manufacturing takes place. But temporary closures of factories to prevent coronavirus transmission turned out to be just one piece of the global bike parts puzzle.

In March and April 2020, as the world seemed to grind to a complete halt, every industry was faced with uncertainty. That included the production of bikes and the associated parts. Every tier in the supply chain, from factory floor to household consumer, waited to see what would happen before ordering for the following season.

“When the pandemic first hit, our sales dropped pretty dramatically,” says Tim Hadfield, GM of Shimano Canada’s bike division. “We were down to probably half of what we [were selling]

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Ship globally, break locally

the previous year, for about two weeks. Basically, the bottom just fell out. When we hit the beginning of April, it began to go the other way. We were continuously putting twice as much product into the market on a daily basis from May 2020 until November 2020. But there’s only so long you can ship twice as much as the year before.”

The hockey stick growth didn’t slow down at the end of the 2020 riding season, either. Hadfield adds that sales in 2021 were up by as much as 76 per cent over the previous year.

“Every cycle we think we’re going to catch up, incoming orders With so many consumer industries experiencing unprecedented exceed our expectations,” he says. As we rolled into March [2021] demand, the logistics of global shipping has been equally stressed. we started putting through four to five times as much product as in A well-documented shortage of shipping containers has caused 2020. We’re looking at astronomical numbers of incoming orders. bottlenecks in ports all over the world. Add the embarrassing Suez That’s quite telling. There is a shortage in the market because there Canal incident (there were likely bike parts aboard the Ever Given, are so many people riding. No one can get enough parts.” too) and you suddenly have to adjust expectations at every level of Shimano, which is celebrating its 100th year in 2021, is the the supply chain all over again. largest bicycle components manufacturer in the world. Because “Lead times are over 365 days,” says Jared Walker, sales rep the company owns all its own factories (located in Japan, China, for Outdoor Gear Canada (OGC), which carries 41 cycling brands.

Malaysia and the Philippines), Shimano was able to make the call “You hear stories about particular products taking 12 months, 18 to invest significantly in its manufacturing facilities to scale up months, 24 months ... There are large manufacturers that are no production, expecting the boom to at least increase the baseline longer giving ETAs. To put that into context, most parts prior to the sales once the world returns to normal. Many bike component pandemic were 60-to-90-day lead times; for something to go from brands contract third-party manufacturers that were not willing or two to three months to 18 or 24 months? It’s a huge shift and it takes able to scale up their output so quickly, choosing instead to weather a long time for manufacturers to catch up with that.” the storm of the shortage. The entire industry is watching closely As expected, those long lead times are affecting bike shops in to see where consumers choose to spend their money once tourism Whistler and in turn, their customers. The Whistler Mountain Bike and travel open up to normal levels. Meanwhile, orders for bikes— Park opened on May 31 after B.C.’s pandemic restrictions eased, and their associated hundreds of parts—keep flooding in. and is known to consume bike parts like no other trail network in “The biggest challenge is in components that are more complex the world. to manufacture,” says Smith. “Things like suspension, drivetrain “With the bull wheels turning, parts are going to be breaking at components and dropper posts in the mountain bike world, but a very accelerated rate compared to this spring,” says Scott Humby, also high-performance road biking stuff as well. It’s a bit easier to owner of Fanatyk Co. Ski and Cycle. “When the suppliers are telling make more handlebars, but you can’t open a factory that makes us that parts are 600 days out, that makes it very difficult to plan for. chains quickly.”

We’re sitting pretty right now, but we have to reserve some of our inventory for bikes that are in for repair. I’ve heard of a number of bike shops not selling certain parts to walk-ins off the street unless it has a work order attached and some amount of labour to help capture some revenue for the summer due to this lack of parts.”

One of those retailers conserving certain parts for its workshop is Whistler Bike Co. “At times we’ve had to limit sales of parts—especially chains— to prevent hoarding. Bike parts are this year’s toilet paper,” says manager David Wilson. “For us [the shortage] has meant we have to search for inventory daily and manage backorders closely. We are already placing orders for the 2022 season whereas we usually do that in September.”

If retailers are all placing their orders around the same time and the supply is a fraction of the requested parts, how do distributors decide who gets what? Generally, it follows the first-come, firstserved rule, but exceptions can be made.

“It’s been mostly first in/first out for parts and accessories, but full bikes are more sensitive,” says Smith. “Most bike brands have had to adopt some sort of allocation strategy. If a big bike shop in Toronto orders 4,000 bikes, you can’t just ship them 4,000 bikes anymore.”

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Humby’s customers have felt the impact of those allocations firsthand.

“We’ve had up to 40 per cent of our booking orders cancelled by the manufacturers,” he says. “That includes people who ordered their bikes last October, thinking they were going to be ahead of the game.”

One mountain biker who has to be ahead of the game when it comes to bike parts is Whistler local Dean Olynyk. Having ridden the Whistler Mountain Bike Park for more than 10 years (five years of which he described as “going apeshit”) Olynyk has consistently clocked up more than 100 days of bike park riding per season. To put that number into a seasonal cumulative context, in the 2017 bike park season, he reached 1.7 million feet (518,000 metres) of vertical. Parts that riders would rarely replace over the course of their bike ownership such as brake lines, headsets and bottom brackets, are an annual investment for Olynyk.

For the consumable bike parts, per season he’ll go through roughly 12 to 14 pairs of brake pads, as many as 12 tires (Olynyk admits he likes to ride soft compound rubber), four or five pairs of grips and he builds a new pair of wheels every year with at least one set of wheels stored as backup. With this level of consumption, it’s easier and more economical for Olynyk to order his parts from online retailers rather than clearing out the shelves of bike shops like a toilet paper hoarder.

“The first year I cracked a million [feet] I hadn’t done a bulk order yet,” says Olynyk. “The next year I basically resigned to being my own personal bike shop so I could get the parts I wanted. I

usually do two big orders a year and for the 2021 season, I made sure to get my first big order in nice and early in January. I normally do all my shopping from just one place but this year I had to go to three different online retailers to make sure I had all the parts I need.”

While Olynyk’s Doomsday Prepper level of readiness might seem excessive to some, he sees it as a necessary expense to make sure he can keep his cranks turning. Many of his mountain biking friends have had a more lackadaisical attitude towards their bikes, which could result in a shortened riding season.

“I suspect that a lot of people won’t be riding this season because they can’t get their bikes repaired,” says Olynyk. “If your bottom bracket is dead and you can’t replace it, what are you going to do?

It’s not like riding chainless.”

With at least another year and a half of forecasted bike parts shortage, the lingering question remains about whether the COVIDinduced bicycle craze is an ongoing boom or simply a spike that will recede once the world returns to its new normal. Much of the industry remains conservative with a wait-and-see approach, a move that could impede cycling’s explosive growth. At the local level, retailers need to remain resourceful and customers must remain patient. “Getting on our cases isn’t going to make it happen any faster,” says Humby. “We get that it’s frustrating and we feel that, too.” ■

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TRAVEL & ADVENTURE

road trip South india

Entering Kerala

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TRAVEL & ADVENTURE Story and photos by Tim Morch

“When everything turns green, you are in Kerala.”

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Vicky Chennai, owner of Chennai Motorcycle Rental

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ighway 49 West from Teni is straight and boring, the redeeming feature being the encouraging glimpses of mountains peeking through the dust and haze. The land rose gently, and the scenery took on shades of green. Suddenly, the air cleared and the Western Ghats loomed above and ahead, a magnificent green and granite wall.

Turning southwest on Highway 85, my travel buddy Astried Huebner and I climbed into the Bodi Hill West Forest.

The road rose steadily and when it seemed it would end a 180-degree hairpin turned us upward again, a sign indicating it was the first of 22 hairpin turns ahead.

Light traffic and a smooth road surface led us to push the KTM Dukes a little deeper into the corners and throttle-on harder exiting the turns. The riding position of these bikes is comfortable, the engine delivers enough power (there is always room for more), and the bike is nimble.

The dry plains disappeared into the haze below and the mountains stretched skyward above. Streams burbled and waterfalls cascaded down granite faces. The haze of the plains gave way to the clear blue skies of the mountains. We stopped frequently to marvel at incredible views.

At a chai stop on the border of Tamil Nadu and Kerala, we recalled Vicky Chennai’s words that when everything turns green, we would be in Kerala.

And the owner of the motorbike rental business we got the bikes from was right.

The lush Mathikettan Shola National Park and the Cardamom Hills is a lifesized pantone green display. In Pooppara, a side road led to a smaller road and a section of dirt track before reaching the village of Thookkupalam.

Astried had reserved a room at a homestay nearby that appeared to be rural. Appearances and reality often conflict in this country and when we finally located the place, it turned out to be a construction site a few metres from the road. In Rammakalmedu, a monument sits atop the hill and Indians flock to the site, climbing the steps to view the spot where legend says Rama kept his feet when searching for his wife Sita.

In search of a lodge, Astried followed her instincts and took a left on a narrow road. A steep dirt track led to Punarjani Ayurvedic Resort. The guys working on the driveway alerted the manager who greeted us with a large smile. He took Astried to see the rooms. When they returned, she gave me our covert “enterthe-negotiation-game” signal.

The official rate was six times our budget, but he offered a half-price discount. I balked and he asked what we normally paid. I said 600 rupees, he offered 800, and we agreed.

We scored a lovely roundhouse in the forest with no other guests! Ditching our

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gear, we hiked up the hill. The forest ends revealing a grassy hilltop with incredible views in every direction. The plains of Tamil Nadu lay open in a vast, hazy expanse below. The ridge to the west had an impressive wind farm. Looking down in the other direction, the last of the tourists were leaving the statue as the sun set on another fantastic day.

There was no restaurant at the lodge, so next morning we descended in search of chai and food. A woman swept a small restaurant and Astried asked if she had chai.

“Of course,” she responded, “I have a special breakfast blend with herbs from my garden.” She smiled. “Fresh cinnamon and cardamon. Would you like it strong, medium or weak?”

“Strong, please,” we replied in unison.

We parked and pulled a couple of chairs to the side of the road to catch morning sun. As we sipped our chai, she asked if we had tried puttu—the typical Kerala breakfast. Being our first morning in Kerala, the answer was “no.”

“Then you must come to my house for breakfast,” she said. So we did.

She was so excited to have us in her home, her first foreigners. She phoned her husband to decry their good luck and told him to come home from work to meet us.

Breakfast was simple, fresh, and perfect. Steamed rice flour rolled into a sausage shape is the heart of it. The accompanying Kadala curry and fresh shaved coconut was scrumptious. She proudly told us there was no oil, sugar, or salt in her cooking. After breakfast, fresh grapes and alcohol-free wine—“45 days in the container”—to digest.

Next came a tour of the garden, full of everything from tea and coffee to pepper, cardamom, cinnamon, banana, jackfruit, and more.

Her husband returned and said it was too bad we had not met the day before as documents granting a homestay licence had arrived and there was a small party.

The “Marottickal Homestay” would soon be getting a sign, we were proudly informed.

They told us of a back route that would wind in the general direction of Kootar.

“Please accept our hospitality,” they said, declining payment.

I said it was an honour and made a generous offering “for good luck.”

Thanking each other profusely, we rode off on another adventure.

For 28 days in 2017 and more than 2,600 kilometres, Tim and his companion explored rural Tamil Nadu and Kerala, India. Few foreigners ride the back roads of southern India and they certainly attracted a lot of attention, from chaistall stares to schoolchildren’s cheers and even newspaper coverage. Read more of the series at piquenewsmagazine.com and timmorch.com. ■

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SPORTS THE SCORE

Local Whistlerite brings home the title in the SPHL GARRETT MILAN, CAPTAIN OF THE PENSACOLA ICE FLYERS, CHIPPED IN THREE POINTS TO HELP HIS TEAM WIN CHAMPIONSHIP

BY HARRISON BROOKS LED BY LOCAL Whistler hockey player, Garrett Milan, the Pensacola Ice Flyers took home the Florida Southern Professional Hockey League (SPHL) championship in May. The Ice Flyers swept both of their threegame series in the playoffs on their way to the title, beating the Knoxville Ice Bears in the semi-finals and the Macon Mayhem in the finals to win the organization’s fourth championship. Milan, who was named captain at the beginning of the season, chipped in two goals and an assist in the four playoff games.

“It was a huge honour to get the captaincy at the beginning of the season … It kind of puts a weight on your shoulder to bring back a championship, which obviously we did,” said Milan.

“It was super exciting; it was great to bring a championship to Pensacola after being on and off [with them] for about three years now. It was a weird year obviously with COVID, so I think it was even better at the end of it that we won.”

According to Milan, about six years ago, the SPHL used to be known more for

TAKING CHARGE Whistler’s Garrett Milan was chosen as Pensacola Ice Flyers captain at the start of the 2020/21 season.

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its fights and hits than high-level hockey.

But after the Central Hockey League folded in 2014 and players began looking to the SPHL for a place to play, the talent level rose substantially. Couple that with the league being cut down to five teams—half its normal size—and Milan believes this was one of the most competitive years the league has seen in a long time.

career for the 30-year-old Milan, who has had a somewhat bumpy and certainly unique hockey journey to get to where he is today.

Milan’s career started out playing Junior A with the Penticton Vees of the British Columbia Hockey League before going on to play NCAA Dvision I hockey at St. Cloud State, where he graduated with

“Over in Europe, they’re cheering the whole game, they’re not sitting down, they’re banging drums, so it’s kind of a cool situation.”

- GARRETT MILAN

“So yeah, I know it’s definitely a league now that maybe doesn’t have the reputation that it should, but if you look down the depth charts on each team it’s a lot deeper than people think,” he said.

“It got a lot better this year, which was nice. And you’re playing the same four teams over and over again, so it’s kind of like a mini-playoff series every time you get on the ice. I think it actually made the championship this year a little bit harder to get, which was kind of cool.”

This championship is the first of his

a marketing degree. From there he found himself bouncing from team to team in all types of unorthodox hockey markets, including Hungary, Germany, Scotland and the southern United States.

While some of his experiences didn’t turn out the way he had hoped, resulting in him changing teams multiple times a year in some cases, the experiences of playing hockey in all these non-traditional markets is something Milan won’t soon forget.

“It’s crazy that the fan support over there is huge as well,” said Milan about the

attendance levels and energy in places like Scotland and Hungary.

“Over in Europe, they’re cheering the whole game, they’re not sitting down, they’re banging drums, they’re banging noisemakers, so it’s kind of a cool situation.

It’s almost like a little mini-soccer game inside the hockey rink.”

Currently, Milan is in the middle of quarantining in Vancouver after completing the 42-hour drive from Florida this past weekend. But, once his quarantine is over, Milan plans to spend his summer at home in Whistler working with KB High Performance Hockey as an on-ice skills coach, running his own speed and conditioning camp and waiting to find out if he’ll receive any offers to go back to Europe or if he’ll be returning to Pensacola again for next season.

But wherever his hockey journey takes him next, one thing is certain for the Milan: he’s not ready to hang up the skates anytime soon.

“I love the sport. If you’re waking up to go to the rink in the morning and you don’t want to be there then that’s the time to kind of put the skates on the shelf, but I haven’t got there yet,” said Milan, whose focus is on bringing a championship to whatever team he plays on next year.

“It’s a tough lifestyle to give up, but also just the fact that you love the game and that you want to win and that you want to get better. I think if you lose that fire then that’s time to stop playing.” n

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RMOW brings field hockey to Whistler with new program TWENTY-FOUR KIDS ARE GETTING THE CHANCE TO TRY A NEW SPORT WITH THE NEW INTRO TO FIELD HOCKEY PROGRAM

BY HARRISON BROOKS THE RESORT Municipality of Whistler’s (RMOW) recreation department is about halfway through its Intro to Field Hockey program aimed at introducing the sport to Sea to Sky youths. “[The kids] seem to be really liking it,” said Joelle Tiessen, one of the program’s coaches.

“In the first couple weeks we were kind of wondering because there was only one kid that had ever played before, and it was brand new to all the rest of them. But they seem super keen and it seemed like the hour went by really quickly for everybody.

So, I don’t think we’re having a problem keeping their interest.”

Tiessen and the RMOW’s manager of recreation, Roger Weetman have been looking to bring field hockey to Whistler for a long time and were excited when they finally had a chance to bring it to life this year.

“Once the artificial turf field was completed, I saw a unique opportunity to introduce field hockey to kids in Whistler,” said Weetman in an emailed statement from the RMOW. “I was amazed at the uptake of the program and how many people are coming out of the woodwork with experience in the sport. I think parents are genuinely excited to see their kids participate in a new sport and it has been rewarding for the coaches to watch them learn it.”

According to a statement from the RMOW, this clinic marks “the first time field hockey has formalized in Whistler.”

The program has a total of 24 kids, mostly girls, ranging in age from eight to 12

years old. It started April 26 and will run until June 21 every Monday at 4 p.m. at the Andrèe Vajda Janyk Sports Field in Cheakamus Crossing.

The program has been following Field Hockey Canada’s guidelines on how to teach the sport. And while the children all seem to be enjoying it, there have been some challenges in teaching the kids all the techniques needed to play. For some of the kids who already play hockey, it was a challenge getting them up to speed on the different rules. And for the others, cardio seemed to be an issue, according to Tiessen.

“There’s no offside in field hockey, you can’t attack somebody’s stick,” she said.

“You can’t kick the ball, so there are just a few little things that are kind of key to moment-to-moment play that are a little bit different. I would say the game is tactically most like soccer, actually, in terms of position and how the game is played.

“But it’s kind of funny because it’s always said the kids in Whistler are like super athletic—and they have been picking it up very quickly—but the one thing we have noticed, though, is I don’t think there is a lot of running sports in this town because we have to work on their fitness a lot. Field hockey is a very running-intensive game, so we’re definitely working on the cardio.”

Despite the program coming to an end in a couple weeks, Tiessen believes that there is enough interest, in both kids and adults, to get a more permanent field hockey club going eventually.

“We are gauging interest right now,” she said. “And we would be keen to start a club and eventually I think there is interest in the adults too to get something going, maybe in the fall.” n

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Gymnastics goes virtual during pandemic LOCAL GYMNASTS HAVE BEEN DEALING WITH THE CHALLENGES AND BENEFITS OF ONLINE COMPETITIONS SINCE JULY OF 2020

BY HARRISON BROOKS AFTER INITIALLY being shut down at the start of last year due to the COVID-19 pandemic, gymnastics throughout B.C., like everything else, had to adapt to the new normal. And for local gymnastics clubs, that meant moving to virtual competitions last summer and into 2021.

What this means for the gymnasts is they practise and perform their routines in their home gyms, send a video in to the judges who then evaluate all the routines and send back the results within a couple weeks.

While the events are more anti-climactic than usual, according to Tanya Liquorish, head trampoline coach at Oros Whistler Gymnastics Centre, the gymnast’s results have actually been really good within the new format. “[The kids] aren’t as eager to get training, but the scores they’re getting, they’ve actually done exceptionally well,” said Liquorish.

“And from a coach’s point of view, it’s been a really good educational asset because we’ve been able to breakdown and actually see the kids who struggled competing. Now when we are like, ‘OK now you have to do the routine,’ and they can’t perform, it’s not about switching equipment, because we are on our own equipment, it’s about them getting nervous and not being able to perform that routine. There are [fewer] variables.”

For Matthew Susko, seven-year veteran of the Whistler gymnastics club, the strong results are partially due to not being in the pressure-filled, stressful situation of in-person competitions. However, there are also some downsides too.

“There aren’t as many eyes on you when

you compete, and you get a few tries to make sure you get it right, so it definitely shows off your better side of competing or what you’ve been training for, which is kind of cool,” said Susko.

“But it’s definitely harder to stay motivated. Sure, you’re still competing, but it’s less motivating to try things and go in every day with a good mindset to keep pushing yourself to do harder and harder things.”

However, both Liquorish and Susko agree that the biggest downside of the new format is not being able to experience the environment of competitions and see what other clubs are doing in their routines.

“Even though trampoline is an individual sport, there’s a great trampoline community and great team spirit with everyone,” said Susko. “Everyone’s such good friends and it’s really fun watching other people do their routines, especially the older senior kids doing really difficult routines and cheering them on and seeing how they do.

“Because when you are in a gym with just the people that you know, it just gets routine. You see what they do all the time and it’s not as exciting as seeing other people that you don’t get to see so often and do things that you’ve actually never seen before.”

Despite the virtual format remaining throughout most of 2021, Susko said his goals haven’t changed and he’s still focused on advancing his skills and moving up to level seven—the next national competition level.

“Since there are [fewer] competitions, the next big one for me is Elite Canada,” said Susko. “It’s a national competition in August so I’m going to be trying to complete a six double routine. So out of ten skills, six of them will be double flips, to help try and get good enough scores to get to [level seven].” n

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Here’s to dada—and Dada!

HAPPY FATHER’S DAY, DADS, WHATEVER CREATIVE STREAM YOU’RE IN “FOR YOU, DADA!” proclaimed the sassy subject line in a push email from that Vancouver bastion of classic modernism, Design House.

What followed was for dad, indeed. A selection of gift ideas for Father’s Day just around the corner (June 20 for all you

BY GLENDA BARTOSH laggards who might have forgotten)— everything from geometric wood coasters M. C. Escher could have designed to sleek cocktail shakers and electric kettles that wouldn’t be out of place at this year’s Biennale of Architecture in Venice, a concept for your wish list of post-lockdown destinations.

There’s dada, as in “dad,” but what some might have missed is that “Dada” with a cap “D” refers to the international movement in art, film and literature started in 1916 by Tristan Tzara and a gang of fellow artists in Zurich. Marcel Duchamp, Man Ray, Hannah Höch, André Breton— all anti-establishment, to use a good old hippie term, and all Dadaists. With satire and nonsense the bywords, and readymade and collage the preferred techniques, Dadaism thumbed its nose at convention

MODEL COOK Rare is the male bird in hetero households who does most, let alone all, of the meal prep.

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in reaction to the horrors of the First World War—if a war like that was the best civil society could do, then screw it.

Something I didn’t miss was that there wasn’t a single kitchen-y item in the gift list and, yes, Design House does carry them: Beautifully designed examples of kitchentool modernism at its finest.

There’s Philippe Starck’s cool—but nonfunctional—Juicy Salif lemon squeezer looking like a 1930s UFO with its landing gear down. (He was actually eating calamari and thinking of a squid when he designed it.)

And the Todo stylish but practical cheese grater—kind of a mash-up between the Torres Kio, Madrid’s famous leaning towers, and San Francisco’s pointy Transamerica Pyramid or the Shard in London. Todo was created by Richard Sapper, one of the top industrial designers of his time. He died in 2015, but is still hailed as much for his designs like “flexible skin” Fiats (reduces impact in collisions) and transportation planning as for his sleek Sapper office chair. And his cheese graters.

Todo, Juicy Salif—both are real tools for real people who work in the kitchen. And neither made it on the “gifts for dada” list.

Don’t wonder why.

Men have long been furloughed from the kitchen.

“I’m not a cook, I’m a lover!” my dad would say, grinning impishly in anticipation of the inevitable whooping and laughter.

Long before us kids were even kids, he delivered his trademark excuse every time someone said something like, “Hey, Paul, why don’t you cook dinner and give Joyce a break?”

I’ve written about this before but it’s worth repeating: At one point my mom actually calculated how many meals she’d planned, prepped and laid on the table in all their years of marriage up till then.

Even allowing for the pots of porridge dad made, the odd egg he would poach, and the dinners out or time spent in the hospital having us kids, it totalled more than 45,000 meals! That’s a lot of time cooking.

The difference in gender roles in the kitchen and otherwise is a recurrent theme in Alice Munro’s beautifully astute short stories. I just revisited one of her collections for “Carried Away,” first published in The New Yorker 30 years ago. CBC Radio’s “Ideas” twigged me onto it for its relevance today as the characters therein get “carried away” by various circumstances beyond their control—the First World War; the great flu epidemic of 1918 (which was not Spanish in origin and swept the world just after Dadaism got started); and more local logistics, like jobs. We’ve endured our own “carrying away” this past year.

There’s a great line in another Munro story in the collection, 1978’s “Royal Beatings.” Daughter Rose and step-mom Flo are squabbling in the kitchen while Flo’s literally on her knees, working. Brother Brian flees the scene, to do as he likes.

“Being a boy, free to help, or not, involve himself or not.” That would be my dad.

Sure, he would help out in the kitchen, but there was always the aura of “or not” in the air.

Grandad, on the other hand, did like to cook and make things, albeit within certain limits: Gorgeous Christmas cakes; Sunday hotcakes spiced with ginger (his

own touch); crabapple and currant jellies bright as jewels. He was also The Chef on prairie hunting and fishing trips where the rule was, complain about the cooking—you cook. This led to the line, “Boy, this sure is salty (or burnt, or whatever)—just the way I like it.”

Once home, he’d gut and clean the fish or game, but nan would cook it. These genderized roles stood until after he retired and nan’s arthritis was so bad there was no choice.

Sure, lots of men, dads and otherwise, can be found—happy as clams—in kitchens today. But anecdotal evidence says more often than not they, too, mostly have specialties like grandad—baking bread, a favourite pasta dish. Rare is the male bird in hetero households who does most, let alone all, of the meal prep.

ScienceDirect concurs. Although more and more men have taken on domestic chores, including meals, compared to my dad’s generation or even when “Royal Beatings” came out, they still don’t do half. Lots of variables play in, including education, income and our new stay-athome parameters, but ScienceDirect’s analysis of data from a 142-country poll shows that dinner is cooked more frequently than lunch, and women cook both more often than men. So Dada that.

Meanwhile, even if your dad’s a model cook, whip him up something special for Father’s Day. Everybody likes to be waited on, at least once in a while.

Glenda Bartosh is an award-winning journalist who figures we could use a postDada revival today. n

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BY ALYSSA NOEL STEP INTO BOARDER X , the special exhibit at the Squamish Lil’wat Cultural Centre (SLCC), and the first thing you’re hit by is vibrant colour.

There are bright hues emanating from skateboard decks, splashes of florescent colour beaming from canvases, and even bright screens transmitting action from the outdoors.

Borrowed from the Winnipeg Art Gallery—with one local addition—the show is the perfect fit for summer 2021. It might be fun and youthful—demonstrating how Indigenous people are connecting to their land through skateboarding, snowboarding, and surfing—but it’s also filled with important messages, some of which are particularly poignant as the country mourns the deaths of 215 residential school children.

“The SLCC really wanted to bring in Boarder X because it has a connection between Indigenous people across Canada and how they interact with their territory,” says Alison Pascal, SLCC curator. “Here we’re considered to be people of the land and our culture is a reflection of the land.

As you can see, it’s been changing and changing over the years and we’ve been kind of adapting to it and involving new parts or new materials into our culture. And that also means that how we interact with the land is changing. A lot of our people are turning to snowboarding, skateboarding, and surfing to connect to it. What we really wanted was to bring in these elements to connect with the youth in our Nation.”

Pascal recently toured Pique through the exhibit—which is running until October 2021. Here are just a few highlights.

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1 INDIGENOUS LIFE SPORT ACADEMY SKATEBOARD ART PROJECT Formerly known as the First Nations Snowboard Team, the ILSA project, which doubles as a fundraiser for the not-for-profit organization, is the local addition to the show.

The skateboard decks on display, painted by Aaron Nelson Moody, Rick Harry, Carlos Soriano, Nalaga Avis Obrien, Trevor Mackay, Carrielynn Victor, and James Dalton, to name a few, are going to be auctioned off online from June 11 to June 21, which is both Indigenous People’s Day and Go Skateboarding Day. “They’re done by renowned artists,” Pascal says. “The top one is one of my favourite artist and his name is Tawx’sin Yexwulla, Aaron Nelson Moody of the Squamish Nation.”

For more, or to make a bid when it opens, visit lifesportcanada.org/fundraiser.

2 BRACKEN HANUSE CORLETT, LAUNCH RAMP At the entrance to the rest of the exhibit sits a small pristine red, white, and sand-coloured skateboard ramp with a figure adorned on it.

Pascal explains artist Bracken Hanuse Corlett talks a lot about how skateboarding was an outsider sport when he was a kid on Vancouver Island and how he and his friends often used to build their own ramps.

For this piece “he chose the skull, as opposed to some of the more traditional Northwest Coast art because when the potlatch ban came, some of their art was misinterpreted as menacing or evil,” Pascal says. “It’s one of the things that contributed to the ban, so he wanted to put it front and centre so people remember that part.”

4 3 MICHAEL LANGAN AND KENT MONKMAN COLLABORATION, COLONIALISM BOARDS Arguably the most poignant pieces in the exhibit, the collaboration includes a set of five skateboard decks with a scene of children being ripped from their parents and sent to residential school.

One set includes tell-tale scratch marks of a board that’s been ridden and the other is in original condition.

“It’s poignant today because there was the recent findings of the unmarked graves, but it also speaks to all of the trauma and the intergenerational trauma that all Indigenous people face and how we do self-healing and growth. By working on ourselves we can start to work away at that so that we don’t need to be stuck in those

hurtful cycles. We can work on it and grow from it. And that’s why he wanted to show the skateboards used. You can see some of the images are starting to be taken over in that we can take that back and replace it with something beautiful and helpful and spiritual and healing for ourselves and our family,” Pascal says.

4 AMANDA STRONG, MAASHCHII (TO MOVE) One of Pascal’s favourite pieces in the show is a fascinating sculpture depicting a woman mid-kick flip on a skateboard.

“In this piece, she’s addressing the issue of feminism in Indigenous people’s lives,” she says. “In Indigenous cultures, women are the matriarchs of the family, so a lot of the knowledge and a lot of the rights come

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Aside from effectively conveying movement, the background of the scene also includes political posters adorning a wall of a back alley.

“This piece really highlights the strength of Indigenous women and also the idea that gender isn’t a fixed issue. Here she’s considering herself gender fluid. She was questioned a lot, as a young person that skateboards, ‘Is she a boy? Is she a tomboy? What’s going on?’ And she’s just breaking free of all of those in being a skateboarder.”

5 MARK IGLOLIORTE, MULTIMEDIA Igloliorte’s piece in the show features two

screens playing short films. On one side there’s a skateboarder and on the other a kayaker practicing a roll. Between the two screens, encased in glass, is a skateboard with the design of a kayak on it.

The Inuk artist currently lives in Vancouver and teaches at Emily Carr University of Art and Design.

“He’s comparing skateboarding and kayaking and how you can see how the two movements are very similar,” Pascal says. “He’s really interested in both sports being self-propelled. So it’s a way of transportation that relies on himself.

He’s also comparing different sports from his Northern home—which would be skateboarding—and activities that he would do in Vancouver.”

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HIT THE TRAIL BOOK Stephen Hui has written a new hiking guidebook called Destination Hikes In and Around Southwestern British Columbia.

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BY ALYSSA NOEL FOR HIS LATEST hiking guidebook, Destination Hikes In and Around Southwestern British Columbia, Stephen Hui decided to focus on both the journey and the destination.

“The angle is to introduce features that make a hike worthwhile,” he says. “I came up with, ‘Let’s look at waterfalls, big trees, swimming holes, mountain views, coast views, and historical and geological [features].”

In other words, each hike has an additional stop-of-interest added to it.

That’s mirrored Hui’s own new approach to hiking. “I used to not swim that much in lakes,” he says. “But a few years ago, I got into it and now I can’t get enough of it.”

The 55 hikes featured in the book— spanning from Vancouver to Pemberton and Nanaimo to Manning Park—also include more detail and images than Hui’s last book, 105 Hikes in and Around Southwestern British Columbia, released in 2018. Hui aimed to include a range of hikes, from easy to hard and popular to lesser known.

“I tried to be even clearer with the writing,” he says. “The photos are better too. The selections I was able to get are much better.”

The book also includes 10 new hikes in and around Whistler and Pemberton.

Hui’s top pick for Pemberton is the Blowdown Pass area. “Blowndown Lake, I love swimming in that lake so much.

That might have been my favourite place to swim in the research of that book,” he says.

Closer to Whistler, he has a soft spot for a tried-and-true favourite. “I really like Helm Lake as well,” he says. “A lot of people know that one in Garibaldi Park, but it’s a backdoor to Black Tusk and

it’s less crowded than Rubble Creek. It’s pretty special … Also, one of my first backpacking trips ever was to Garibaldi.

We went in the Helm Creek way. That place is special to me.”

Hui penned much of the book prepandemic. While he included plenty of conservation concerns, safety tips, and trail etiquette throughout, that was largely responding to the already increasing number of people heading into the backcountry.

“Guidebooks are an important conduit for passing on that information for new hikers. They aren’t getting that bit of outdoor knowledge passed on to them.

I read guidebooks when I was young and part of it was trying to weave that [information] in,” he says.

He also aimed to highlight cultural or natural highlights in each area in the pursuit of outdoor education. “I tried to include information ... if there were important things to note about cultural or natural values, so people know these areas are important—some of these areas are sacred and people should know there’s a reason to treat it with respect,” he says.

Meanwhile, while the Sea to Sky gears up for another busy summer on trails, Hui has a wise piece of advice: you might have to put a little more effort in, but there’s always a quiet trail somewhere.

“When there’s a super busy hike, a valley or two over, there’s going to be a quieter hike,” he says. “Yes, we’re seeing those quieter hikes getting busier. But you can still find quieter trails if you’re looking.

And if you look at any guidebook like both of mine, there are hikes with lots of people, but also hikes that are quiet. The past year I had lots of quiet hiking.”

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BY ALYSSA NOEL SQUAMISH DUO Out East marked a milestone last weekend.

They played in front of a live audience— outdoors at Cliffside Cider—for the first time since the COVID-19 pandemic began (save for one opening gig last summer).

“I haven’t been able to wipe the smile off my face since yesterday afternoon,” says Adam Ravalia, one half of the duo.

While the band released its debut EP, He’s, last summer—filled with catchy, laidback atmospheric pop tracks—because of the pandemic, they were unable to tour—or even play locally—to promote it. Internet promotion and advertising can only go so far, they learned.

“Just from that [recent live show] you see more action on the Instagram page, more people engaging,” Ravalia says. “It shows just how important it is to get out in the community.”

Rather than sit around and wait for shows to restart again, Ravalia and bandmate Jon Allan continued to stick to a schedule, meeting up every Thursday to practice and write news songs.

“That consistent, weekly gathering has been something we could hang onto and it tethers us to the project,” Ravalia says. “You run out of things to do and you find yourself feeling you’re floating in space without much to ground you. It’s such a blessing to have music, friends that play music, and have people to write music with. I feel super blessed to be involved in that … Despite not being able to play shows, it’s been grounding for me.”

That’s how, by February, they were able to finish songs for another EP—this one called By the Ocean—and send them off to a friend on the East Coast to help with mixing and producing.

Stylistically, the tracks might be similar

to those on He’s, but lyrically, they draw from their recent experience of missing family in Newfoundland.

“It’s been 18 months since either of us have seen our parents or loved ones,” Ravalia says. “The song ‘By the Ocean’ we wrote about the old days in St. John’s when we used to play in bands out there. It’s about missing the Atlantic Ocean and the East Coast. We haven’t been able to travel there physically, so we used our music to travel there and feel all the emotions that come along with being away from home for so long. We channelled that into these songs.”

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The single, “Fences,” is available on Spotify now with the rest of the album set for a June 16 release.

In the meantime, Out East is hoping and planning for a summer of live music ahead.

“We’re eyeing pubs around Squamish and Whistler,” Ravalia says. “I find myself mass applying for everything—making phone calls, dropping into places. We can come in and help bring live entertainment back. People are really excited about it. I’ve never seen such an engaged crowd [as last weekend]. As much as I was smiling, I was looking around and people were beaming. I didn’t realize how much I missed that part of my life until I had it back.”

To find out where they might be playing next, follow Out East at instagram.com/ outeasttunes. n

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It is with heavy hearts that we announce the passing of James ( Jim) Moore. Jim passed away at the Sea to Sky Hospice after a tenacious year-plus battle with stomach cancer.

Jim will be dearly missed by his wife Joan, daughter Nicole (Scott), son Daryl (Sophie), and grandchildren, Peter, Leo and Teddy.

Jim’s great passion was cycling, which provided an escape from the hardscrabble streets of Salford, UK (of “Dirty Old Town” fame). Jim raced as a professional cyclist for Britain and competed in track, road and cycle-cross, and later, after he immigrated to Canada, as an amateur mountain biker.

Jim was also an avid skier. He became a full-time ski instructor in Whistler after he retired from his regular drafting job and taught right up to his 80th birthday. He cherished his days working and having coffee with the Silver Bullet crew.

Jim had a warm smile, a great sense of humour, and a genuine love of people; he was a fixture in Deep Cove and Whistler, (and finally Squamish), where his vibrant energy will be missed.

We would like to send a big thank you to the incredible doctors, nurses and staff in the Squamish palliative program, the oncology department and the Sea to Sky Hospice and Hospice Society. The family would particularly like to thank Dr. Millar, who went above and beyond to help make a final family wish come true. In lieu of flowers, please consider donations to the Sea to Sky Community Hospice. Or go for a ride with a friend or loved one. Jim would like that. A Celebration of Life will be held at a later date.

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SERVING IT UP The Cookhouse was a much-loved, seasonal restaurant in Whistler that operated from 1978 to 1981. It was so popular that it didn’t advertise its spring openings for fear of being overwhelmed.

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BY ALLYN PRINGLE WHILE A DISUSED logging camp may not seem like the most likely place to find a great meal, that is exactly what could be found at Mons crossing from 1978 to 1981.

The Cookhouse, described as a “little hut by the tracks” opened in June 1978 to provide breakfast and lunch to local contractors, workers, and any residents or visitors who chose to stop by.

Everett Valleau moved Valleau Logging Ltd. to the Alta Lake and Green Lake areas in 1955. The company was a family affair, with Everett’s sons Laurance, Eugene, Bob, Howard, Ron and Lindsay all working there.

Over the years, at least 10 grandchildren and three great-grandchildren would also work for Valleau Logging Ltd. As Whistler Mountain, and then the Resort Municipality of Whistler (RMOW), grew, the Valleaus expanded their business to include excavation work, road building, and more. They established a logging camp at Mons near the railway and offered space to the community to build a firehall, operate a post office, play horseshoes, and even paved an area for ice-stock sliding.

The logging camp was in use until the Valleaus decided to move their business to Pemberton in the 1970s.

In 1978, the RMOW granted Jan Systad and Helene Allen temporary permission to operate the camp’s cookhouse as a homemade breakfast and lunch food service. Before they could open, however, the building needed some work done.

The building inspector reported that the interior of the building required a thorough cleaning, the installation of two fire extinguishers and a new sink, and repairs for the rear porch in order to make it the main entrance instead of having customers enter through the kitchen.

Given these changes, the health inspector gave the business the go ahead.

From accounts we’ve seen, the Cookhouse was a big success with Whistler residents. In August 1978 the Whistler Question food column called the Cookhouse’s pancakes “a dream” and “a perfect cure for the Monday morning blues,” describing them as “light and fluffy with a deep, rich flavour … served last week with a pinch of raspberry and maple syrup.”

The Cookhouse operated as a seasonal restaurant, opening in the spring and then closing in November. With no social media, opening and closing dates travelled partially by word of mouth. In 1979, Question staff and other hungry customers arrived at the Cookhouse only to find that it had been closed for the season since the Friday before.

When the Cookhouse opened back up in April 1980, it reportedly opened “with an air of secrecy about the operation.” Systad and her assistant Donna (if anyone knows Donna’s last name, please let us know!) told the Question that they “didn’t want to get overwhelmed on a Monday morning by a crowd whipped into a home-cooking frenzy due to advertising,” instead, opting for a slower start as word of its opening was passed around Whistler.

Despite the lack of formal advertising, there was a steady stream of customers at the Cookhouse, a testament to the quality of the food.

The Cookhouse only operated for four years before closing permanently in November 1981. Beginning in January 1982, however, Systad continued to serve her “much-sought after home-cooked goodies” from the Husky in today’s Creekside. She also took over the operation of the deli, grocery store, and laundry facilities at the Husky. The buildings from the Valleau logging camp, including the Cookhouse, were removed from Mons and the area grew into the industrial centre it is today. n

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WAREHOUSEMANS LIEN The Following parties are advised that the premises at Unit 1@2 7318 Industrial Way Pemberton rented by ERIC PRALL OF 13 Aster St Pemberton V0N2I0 and GLACIER PACIFIC INSULATION LTD are now subject to the above Lien for failing to pay for Rental and other charges amounting to $7252.73 Contents of the units will be opened and auctioned off by20th June 2021 if not paid to 0881511 BC Ltd

NOTICE OF WAIVING OF PUBLIC HEARING ELECTORAL AREA A, B, C & D Area A, B, C & D Public Utility Use and Other Definition Amendments Pursuant to Section 464 of the Local Government Act this is to provide notice of intent of the Squamish-Lillooet Regional District to amend Squamish-Lillooet Regional District Electoral Area A Zoning Bylaw No. 670, 1999, Area B Zoning Bylaw No. 1300-2013, Area C Zoning Bylaw No.765, 2002, and Area D Zoning Bylaw No. 1350-2016 in a manner consistent with the Electoral Area A Official Community Plan Bylaw No. 608, 1996, the Electoral Area B Official Community Plan Bylaw No. 1073, 2008, the Electoral Area C Official Community Plan Bylaw No.689,1999, and the Electoral Area D Official Community Plan Bylaw No. 1135-2013.

Public Notice is hereby given in accordance with Section 467 of the Local Government Act that a Public Hearing will be waived regarding the following bylaws: 1. Squamish-Lillooet Regional District Electoral Area A Zoning Bylaw No. 670, 1999, Amendment Bylaw No. 1712-2021.

2. Squamish-Lillooet Regional District Electoral Area B Zoning Bylaw No. 1300-2013, Amendment Bylaw No. 1713-2021.

3. Squamish-Lillooet Regional District Electoral Area C Zoning Bylaw No. 765, 2002, Amendment Bylaw No. 1714-2021.

4. Squamish-Lillooet Regional District Electoral Area D Zoning Bylaw No. 1350-2016, Amendment Bylaw No. 1715-2021.

PURPOSE OF BYLAWS 1712-2021, 1713-2021, 1714-2021 and 1715-2021: The Squamish-Lillooet Regional District is in the process of updating the above-noted Electoral Area Zoning Bylaws to include: •

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Third reading of Amendment Bylaws Nos. 1712-2021, 1713-2021, 1714-2021 and 1715-2021 is scheduled for June 23, 2021. All persons who believe that their interests are affected by the proposed bylaws shall be afforded a reasonable opportunity to present written submissions respecting matters contained in the bylaw. Written submissions (mail or email) must be received at the SLRD office no later than 9 am Wednesday June 23, 2021.

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ARIES (March 21-April 19): Aries actor Leonard Nimoy became mega-famous by playing the role of Spock, an alien from the planet Vulcan in the Star Trek franchise.

He always enjoyed the role, but in 1975 he wrote an autobiography called I Am Not Spock. In it, he clarified how different he was from the character he performed.

In 1995, Nimoy published a follow-up autobiography, I Am Spock, in which he described the ways in which he was similar to the fictional alien. In the spirit of Nimoy’s expansive self-definition, Aries, and in accordance with current astrological potentials, I invite you to make it clear to people exactly who you and who you aren’t.

TAURUS (April 20-May 20): The poet Rumi declared, “A lover has four streams inside, of water, wine, honey, and milk.” With that in mind, Taurus, I will recommend that you seek a boost in the honey department. Your passions and feelings have been flowing along fairy well, but lately they’ve lacked some sweetness. As a result, you’re not receiving as much of the sweetness you need from the world around you. So your assignment is to intensify the honey stream within you! Remember the principle, “Like attracts like.”

GEMINI (May 21-June 20): I’m glad you’re not on the planet Saturn right now. The winds there can blow at 1,600 kilometres per hour. But I would like you to feel a brisk breeze as you wander around in nature here on Earth.

Why? Because according to my interpretation of the current astrological omens, winds will have a cleansing effect on you. They will clear your mind of irrelevant worries and trivial concerns. They’ll elevate your thoughts as well as your feelings. Do you know the origin of the English word “inspire”? It’s from the Latin word inspirare, meaning “blow into, breathed upon by spirit.” Its figurative meaning is “to inspire, excite, inflame.” The related Latin word spiritus refers to “a breathing of the wind” and “breath of a god”—hence “inspiration; breath of life.”

CANCER (June 21-July 22): Cancerian author Franz Kafka put his characters into surreal dilemmas. In his novella The Metamorphosis, for example, the hero wakes up one day to find he has transformed into a giant insect. Despite his feral imagination, however, Kafka had a pragmatic relationship with consumerism.

“I do not read advertisements,” he said. “I would spend all of my time wanting things.” In accordance with astrological omens, I invite you to adopt his earthy attitude for the next two weeks. Take a break from wanting things, period. Experiment with feeling free of all the yearnings that constantly demand your attention.

Please note: This break in the action won’t be forever.

It’s just a vacation. When you return to wanting things, your priorities will have been realigned and healed, and you’ll feel refreshed.

LEO (July 23-Aug. 22): Author Umberto Eco declared that beauty is boring because it “must always follow certain rules.” A beautiful nose has to be just the right shape and size, he said, while an “ugly nose” can be ugly in a million different unpredictable ways. I find his definition narrow and boring, and prefer that of philosopher Francis Bacon, who wrote, “There is no excellent beauty that hath not some strangeness in the proportion.” Poet Charles Baudelaire agreed, saying, “That which is not slightly distorted lacks sensible appeal: from which it follows that irregularity—that is to say, the unexpected, surprise and astonishment—is an essential part and characteristic of beauty.” Then there’s the Japanese concept of wabi-sabi, which reveres beauty that’s imperfect, transitory, and incomplete. Beginning now, and for the rest of 2021, Leo, I encourage you to ignore Eco’s dull beauty and cultivate your relationship with the more interesting kind.

VIRGO (Aug. 23-Sept. 22): One of the more evocative passages in J. R. R. Tolkien’s novel The Return of the King is about the warrior Éowyn. It says, “Then the heart of Éowyn changed, or else at last she understood it. And suddenly her winter passed, and the sun shone on her.”

I’m predicting a comparable transformation for you in the near future, Virgo. There’ll be some fundamental shift in the way your heart comprehends life. When that happens, you will clearly fathom some secrets about your heart that have previously been vague or inaccessible. And then the sun will shine upon you with extra brilliance.

LIBRA (Sept. 23-Oct. 22): Libran actor and author Carrie Fisher had more than the average number of inner demons. Yet she accomplished a lot, and was nominated for and won many professional awards. Here’s the advice she gave: “Stay afraid, but do it anyway.

What’s important is the action. You don’t have to wait to be confident.” I hope you’ll employ that strategy in the coming weeks, dear Libra. The time is favourable for you to work hard on your No. 1 goal no matter what your emotions might be at any particular moment.

SCORPIO (Oct. 23-Nov. 21): Scorpio author Fyodor Dostoevsky (1821–1881) had a gambling addiction for many years. At one point, he lost so much money betting on roulette that he had to take drastic measures. He wrote a novella in record time—just 16 days—so as to raise money to pay his debt. The story was titled The Gambler. Its hero was a not-very-successful gambler.

Is there a comparable antidote in your future, Scorpio?

A gambit that somehow makes use of the problem to generate the cure? I suspect there is.

SAGITTARIUS (Nov. 22-Dec. 21): In her poem “Escape,” Michelle Tudor addresses a lover: “Inside of you: a dream raging to be set free.” She implies that she would like to be a collaborator who provides assistance and inspiration in liberating her companion’s dream. The coming weeks will be an excellent time for you to make a similar offer to an ally you care for—and to ask that ally to do the same for you. And by the way: What is the dream inside you that’s raging to be set free? And what’s the dream inside your comrade?

CAPRICORN (Dec. 22-Jan. 19): Author Martha Beck has helpful counsel for you to keep returning to during the coming weeks. “It isn’t necessary to know exactly how your ideal life will look,” she writes. “You only have to know what feels better and what feels worse. Begin making choices based on what makes you feel freer and happier, rather than on how you think an ideal life should look. It’s the process of feeling our way toward happiness, not the realization of the Platonic ideal, that creates our best lives.”

AQUARIUS (Jan. 20-Feb. 18): Aquarian author James Dickey celebrated “the holy secret of flowing.” But he added, “You must be made for it.” In other words, he implied that the secret of flowing is a luxury only some of us have access to. And because we “must be made for it,” he seemed to suggest that being in possession of the secret of flowing is due to luck or genetics or privilege.

But I reject that theory. I think anyone can tap into the secret of flowing if they have the desire and intention to do so. Like you! Right now! You’re primed to cultivate a robust relationship with the holy flow.

PISCES (Feb. 19-March 20): Why do humans enjoy much longer life spans than other higher primates?

Here’s one reason: grandmothers. Anthropologists propose that earlier in our evolution, families with elder females especially thrived. The grandmothers helped care for children, ensuring greater health for everyone as well as a higher rate of reproduction than grandmotherless broods. Their longevity genes got passed on, creating more grandmothers. Lucky! Having older women around while growing up has been key to the success of many of us. In accordance with astrological omens, I invite you to celebrate and honor the role your own grandmothers and female elders have played in your life. And if you’re a grandmother, celebrate and honor yourself!

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NOTICES GENERAL NOTICES ROTARY CLUBS OF WHISTLER The Rotary Clubs of Whistler are now meeting virtually.

The Whistler Club Tuesdays at 3.

The Millennium Club Thursdays at 12:15.

Contact us at info@Whistler-rotary.org for log in info. All welcome.

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whereas Stefanchuk, Halee is indebted to Cooper's Towing Ltd. for unpaid towing and storage fees on a 2005 Ford Freestar, vin # 2FMDA57225BA15958 in the amount of $1596.00.

Notice is hereby given that on June 25th, 2021 the goods will be seized and sold.

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• Full-time work year round and a FUN work environment. *eligibility and conditions based on DRCL policies and practices set out in general terms and conditions of employment.

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YOUTH OPPORTUNITIES With the support of the Federal Government’s Canada Summer Jobs Program, Tourism Whistler has the opportunity to hire for the following positions: • Human Resources Assistant (Part Time, Contract) • Health & Safety Ambassador, Whistler Golf Club (Full Time, Contract) • Web & Operations Assistant, Whistler.com (Full Time, Contract) As a requirement of the Canada Summer Jobs Program these positions are available to youth up to 30 years of age, who are Canadian Citizens or Permanent Residents of Canada. Current enrolment in a post secondary program is appreciated, but not essential.

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PRESCHOOL CHILDHOOD EDUCATOR INFANT TODDLER EDUCATOR The N’Quatqua First Nation is seeking 2 qualified Early Childhood Educators. One is a full-time permanent position, the other is a full time maternity leave position at N’Quatqua Child and Family Development Centre. The successful candidates will join our NCFDC team. The Early Childhood Educators work as team members with other child care setting staff and with all the children and families providing general support to the whole program to ensure effective inclusion of the children.

The successful candidate will have demonstrated ability in: • Ability to develop and maintain a warm, caring, responsive relationship with the child.

• Ability to establish and maintain supportive, collaborative relationships with families and staff.

• Ability to maintain confidentiality, positive, professional, nonjudgmental attitude.

• Physically ability to carry out the duties of the position.

• Planning and implementing developmentally appropriate curriculum that supports community, inclusion and is culturally significant for young Aboriginal children • Understanding and working knowledge of Child Care Licensing regulations • Interpersonal, written, oral communication skills and maintaining positive communication with parents • Collaborating with community service providers, Self-directed and able to initiate and complete projects In addition, the Early Childhood Educators will have: • A minimum of 2 years work experience in a child care setting

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Terms of Employment: • Full-time, Monday to Friday hours to be determined • Start Date: As soon as possible • Wage: (negotiable depending on experience) Cover Letter & Resume to: Title: Lisa Sambo, Manager Agency: N’Quatqua Child and Family Development Centre Email: lisa.sambo@nquatqua.ca Fax: 604-452-3295/3280 Deadline: until position is filled We thank all those who apply. Only those candidates selected for interview will be contacted.

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Fishing is a metaphor for life “It has always been my private conviction that any man who pits his intelligence against a fish and loses has it coming.”

- John Steinbeck.

THIS IS A COLUMN about fishing. Sort of. It may also have a few humourous insights.

Sort of. I include this disclaimer since a recent column about gardening, intended to be humourous—sort of—was misinterpreted by at least one letter writer as an indictment of that particular pastime. While I’m neither an avid gardener nor fisher, I while away summers doing both. The fact I see morbid humour in both may be a personal failure.

But the alternative, taking both seriously, is beyond my capabilities. Meh.

BY G.D. MAXWELL As hobbies, that is to say obsessions, go, I guess fishing is no stranger than any other. This is not to say it isn’t littered with wackiness, rituals and just plain weirdness, but then, what obsession isn’t?

There is, however, security in numbers and fishing is still the most widely practised sport, hobby, distraction, time-waster in the world. It fulfils mankind’s—gender irrelevant—primal instincts to challenge nature, secure food, and get things tangled up beyond hope.

Some people believe fishing is a metaphor for life. Those people are not fishers; they are philosophers. Fishers believe life is a metaphor for fishing.

Fishers—myself included—are fools. And any body of water filled with even the hope of a promise of fish, is Fool’s Paradise.

Of course this is not to be confused with the magnitude of foolishness our political masters ceaselessly mess around with, allowing moneyed interests to continue threatening B.C.’s wild salmon stocks with their ever-growing fish farms off the coast of Paradise. But I digress.

While I don’t want to exclude women from anything, least of all fishing, at its very soul, fishing is a guy thing. Anything that involves that much pointless sitting around waiting for something to happen is, by definition, a guy thing. I think most women would agree with that.

Fishing is one of those ironic activities that both define the cosmic essence of being a guy and at the same time undermine the cliché of guyness in at least two significant ways. It has become a standing joke that guys are incapable of distinguishing between or naming more than six colours: red, green, blue, purple, orange and yellow.

Women, on the other hand, can name at least six variations of an infinite number of colours, as anyone who’s shopped for, say, paint can attest to.

This grossly unfair stereotype of colourchallenged manhood flies out the window as soon as a guy walks into a shop filled

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with fishing stuff, ironically called tackle.

Standing before a wall of feathers, fluff, glass beads, plastic worms and brightly coloured bits of aluminum, a guy can suddenly distinguish between subtle shades of tan, olive, ecru, pink, fuchsia, lavender and, yes, even teal. All he has to do to accomplish this amazing transition in colour perception is, wait for it, think like a fish.

And if fishing destroys the myth of guys and colourblindness, it also lays waste to the generally held notion that guys don’t accessorize. One need only observe a guy’s progression of fishing accessories to understand how wrong that mean-spirited slander really is.

A young boy starts his journey on the road to becoming a fisherman with simple,

Real Guy Lesson: You catch it, you clean it.

But the siren song of accessories, the primitive, oft-concealed guy need to have one of everything, no matter how absurd, is the only possible explanation for the lifelong transformation of that young boy and his simple pole into a grown man with a $25,000 plastic bass boat, several steamer trunks full of lures, lines and flies, specialized rods for every occasion, a closetful of fishing attire far more coordinated than the rest of his wardrobe and a fishing-themed SUV to lug the whole affair around.

Which is not to say this is a bad thing.

Fishing, like sports, is one of those activities where grown men seem able to actually reach out and connect with their children in

Anything that involves that much pointless sitting around waiting for something to happen is, by definition, a guy thing. unpretentious gear—a pole, a hook, a worm and maybe a red and white bobber. If he’s been taken to the right place, shown the path of true patience and can sit still for more than five minutes without completely losing interest or whipping out his cellphone, he eventually feels the rod come alive in his tiny hands and with a bit more luck, lands his first fish and receives his first

a meaningful way. At least they can if they manage to hold their own frustration in check for longer than 10 minutes. A fishing trip, whether a day or a week, is a time to pass on values, traditions, family lore, misconceptions and just plain wrongheaded notions as well as meaningful life lessons.

But as weird as fishing gets, and believe me it gets pretty weird, it is riddled with

bottomless rabbit holes. While I’ve never lived in a place blessed with lots of bass or catfish—both of which have a sub-genre of fishing involving some of the weirdest practices, including sticking your arm into a mudhole along a lake or river bank to grab a somnambulant catfish—I have a passing familiarity with two such endeavours: fly fishing and ice fishing.

By far, fly fishing is the weirdest, accepting the butt-numbing reality of ice fishing, which involves a substantial investment in sado-masochism and heated clothing. Fly fishers inevitably wade into the deep waters of tying flies. Hours and fortunes are spent accumulating the paraphernalia necessary to tie flies. I freely admit the weirdest thing I’ve ever done in the pursuit of fly fishing was to abruptly pull over to the side of a back road after spotting a roadkill deer, jumping out of the car, whipping out a pocket knife and scalping a sizable piece of hide from several places on the dearly departed deer’s bloating body, an act that seemed to signal the downward spiral of my first marriage. Why? To tie spun deer hair flies, of course.

I have pumped the stomach contents of a trout to see what it was eating. Why? To see if I had a fly that looked like what it was eating. Nothing close enough in the box?

Take a few minutes to tie one in situ. Why? Because to be a fly fisher, you have to mimic what the fish are eating. In other words, you have to think like a fish.

Of course, I don’t know what the fish who bite something that looks like a chrome car accessory are thinking. But we each choose our own rabbit holes. ■

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