I get the new hygienist at my 6 monthly check-up. After ten years as a ski-bum, finally having dental benefits means I vaguely dread these appointments – there’s belated penance to be paid for sins of omission and neglect. And the new hygienist, though young and capable, is brusque enough to be a little Scary….
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Last night for Whistler’s Late Night Alternatives?
On Friday night, I ducked away early from a Christmas cocktail party, sucked my breath in at the cold, and hiked over to Muni Hall to present a seminar on media relations to the last ever class of interns to take LUNA’s remarkable Community Event Coordination training certificate program. LUNA’s CEC certificate is a perfect…
Best Segment in a Ski Movie – Behind the Scenes of All.I.Can’s street segment with JP Auclair
JP Auclair Street Segment (from All.I.Can.) from Sherpas Cinema on Vimeo. Sherpas Cinema’s All.I.Can has been winning serious props since its premiere in the fall, but one segment of the film is making a profound impression. JP Auclair’s urban skiing sequence, shot in Rossland, Trail and Nelson BC, received more than 200,000 hits in 48 hours when…
Skiing The Edge – presenting the best feature ski writing of 2011
Skiing The Edge is now available for download on amazon.com and via iTunes. Deploy today’s coffee budget in favour of story! Just $3.99. In July, Dave Fonda invited me to judge awards recognising the best feature ski writing of the year. I said yes because: he promised me a coffee mug, he also promised there…
The Pemberton Interview project
It’s not quite as weird as David Lynch (but then, who is?), but Choose Pemberton, which launched 18 months ago, was my own version of The Interview Project. Officially, it was the content command centre for a summer campaign geared at promoting Pemberton. Unofficially, it was a chance to ask local people, the ones who…
Debating the options of getting a professional headshot taken after picking up the latest issue of SBC Skier
No, really. Take me seriously. I’m a serious journalist. Actually, yes, I do tend to bite off more than I can chew. Thank you Feet Banks. I can always count on you to keep me company out in WeirdoLand.
Locavore’s Dilemma: four bags of salad for dinner? And no tomatoes.
Local honey, a bag of fresh greens and peppery little radishes – that was my haul from the first Pemberton Farmers Market for the season. (Wednesday nights, 4pm-7pm, outside the Pemberton Valley Grocery store.) So, now we’re fully stocked on salad greens – exposing the joy and the challenge of eating locally, in season –…
Confessions of a Hypewriter, part 2
Kokanee Crankworx dropped their promo video this week. The best mountain bike athletes in the world know that when gravity beckons, you simply say, yes mistress. I’m coming. Untitled from Crankworx on Vimeo. It’s funny, but when I wrote that copy, the voice in my head was a woman. Gravity. As played by Carla Bruni….
Sustainable tourism is… frog pose
Have been thinking a lot lately about holding space, about opening, and the discomfort that comes leading up to release. (And about how overdue I am for my next appointment with the yoga mat.) So dug out this piece I wrote last year in response to an online call for contributions on “sustainable tourism” for…
Lisa Richardson Bylines 