Dave Hobson doesn’t really believe in lessons. The Alpine Supervisor of Whistler Blackcomb’s Snow School (and 2012 Supervisor of the Year)* is inclined to the philosophy that you can pretty much teach yourself anything. Except skiing and snowboarding, that is. In part, he advocates ski lessons because it’s a social experience. Putting your self in…
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How to Ski Like A Man
The failure of the world to explode in cataclysmic fireballs on the end of the Mayan calendar means those New Year resolutions you didn’t bother with suddenly demand a little attention. (It’s not too late!) Today, I told the Liftopia community that any Self Improvement journey should begin with a promise to go skiing. With…
A Prayer for the End of the World (or How I Learned Not to Envy Dying Catholics)
In honour of the 21st of December and the end of the Mayan calendar and possible impending annihilation of life on earth… I make this confession. I’ve always envied dying Catholics. Hail Mary, full of grace, blessed are thee amongst women. I envied them their Hail Marys which seemed to bring such succour to television’s…
Climbing Taught Me How to Suck. On Grit, and the 7 Things I’ve Learned from Rock Climbing
We don’t put our climbing gear away until the snow is thick on the ground in Whistler and the rivers are high and we can be sure that the granite is dripping runnels and waterfalls and there is clearly no hope for that crispy sunny bonus day on the rock. So, we’ve now officially conceded…
Scripting the Wonder Reels
Why my enduring crush on Mike Douglas, Jeff Thomas and Blair Richmond, the crew at Switchback Entertainment? Because I write this: And they respond with this: To which I say: Exactly. For more on the Wonder Reels campaign, and our membership in the Church of Story, check out this blog post at Origin Design +…
Maven Michelle Leroux’ Top 5 Ways to Slay the Social Media Scene
Choose Your Weapons. Use Instagram. (Sorry, word-nerds, but pictures trump everything.) Hootsuite will save your life. And your sanity. As for rising buzz, think geo. Make friends. Embrace synergies. Privacy doesn’t exist. Give up the myth. Every now and then, get random. Despite all your strategy, sheer randomness often gets the most responses. Go figure….
Tweet Better: Free workshop on Wednesday
More from the twittersphere… On Wednesday night, I’m giving a free Twitter 101 workshop at the Pemberton and District Library at 7pm. (Please register by calling 604-894-6916, dropping in or emailing library@pemberton.bclibrary.ca.) To help articulate what it’s about, I was interviewed on Choose Pemberton. Here’s an extract from that Q+A, which I answered in 140…
To Tweet or To Retreat from the Social Frontier… (it’s hardly a question)
Ever since Whistler Blackcomb introduced free wifi to their on-mountain lodges and an app that allows skiers to track runs and share speed, vertical and bragging rights, the connection between real life and the on-mountain escape has gotten stronger. Personally, I go to the mountain to unplug. But, something happened in the fifteen years I’ve…
Advice to Aspiring Writers (or why it doesn’t matter that my parents weren’t Rilke)
When I told my parents that I wanted to be a writer, they didn’t really know what to do with that. They said, “Nice. That’s nice. Just get a back-up career. Like law. Or medicine.” (I think that’s why I, like most teenagers, fell in love with Rilke’s Letters to a Young Poet.) If I…
Ebbs and flows
A few years ago, Gerhard Gross wrote the best article I’ve ever read in a snowboard magazine, The Science of Stoke, digging in to explain what one of the most over-used word in our mountain culture actually means, endocrinologically-speaking. His revelations about the ebb and flow of the chemical high that keeps us so addicted…
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