Last year, Angela Ritchie launched her ACE camps and connected with me to write a couple of press releases to spread the word. The first workshop was with Sabrina Ward Harrison in the Baja. The response was incredible. The adventure, outstanding. By the surf breaks of the Pacific Ocean, adventurers were led by the 34…
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Actually, poo is very interesting…
Last week, I took a tour of Pemberton’s Waste-water Treatment Plant. I pulled my hazmat suit out of the attic, borrowed a snorkeling mask, and flip-flopped down to Airport Road, braced to discover what really happens after I hit the flushbutton. And I discovered that Pemberton’s shit don’t stink. No bull. In fact, the Waste…
A Busy Week in the Co-Laboratory
Spent the week in the laboratory, cooking up a little creative campaign, alongside some of my favourite collaborators, photographer Robin O’Neill, designer Lisa Komuro, and the gorgeous Megeney/Lambrecht clan. The creative will roll out this summer and is anchored by a website showcasing the Potato Nation, and all its growers, makers, movers and shakers.
Outstanding on his board
Verbal snapshot of One Mile Lake at 6pm on a Saturday: a 6 year old boy casts for fish beside his dad off the floating dock. Half a dozen kayakers paddle across the lake. Dog-walkers enjoy the new boardwalk. A family gathers around a fire in the great metal fire-pit. Someone sits in meditation as…
Losing My Religion – or why I don’t ride in lightning storms
When Whistler Blackcomb launched their If Ullr Was a Girl campaign back in 2006, they got angry letters of complaint from people who found the whole suggestion that Ullr was responsible for snow, or was even vaguely god-like, to be offensively sacreligious. So I expected some heat when I wrote a feature on mountain biking…
The Hub of the Wheel
Johnny Foon and I have been playing phone-tag. (It might be the only game I can match him at.) (Photo by Bruce Rowles. Mountain Life magazine.) (“Follow meeeeee!”. “Uh. that’s okay, Johnny. I’ll just go around and meet you at the bottom.”) The ski mountaineering legend has become Pemberton’s chief trail-builder, and he’s getting ready…
The Road to Nowhere
I took a cruise once. I needed to interview the ship’s doctor for a travel article I was writing for a lifestyle magazine for physicians. He dodged me. He demurred. He point-blank refused. I persisted. For days. I thought about feigning illness. Or poisoning my mother. But eventually, I prevailed upon him to speak to…
Pedal Power – Pemberton’s Slow Food Cycle featured on the Food Network
My favourite food gurus and local-eating advocates, authors James MacKinnon and Alisa Smith, are now TV stars… Shooting this clip for the Food Network marked the 3rd time the couple have taken part in Slow Food Cycle Sunday… we wrangled them to write the intro for the Almanac, featured them in a locally produced movie…
Ripple effect of the TELUS Festival’s Black Market Photo trade finally tallied
Hi Brooks from StreetToPeak kept the Black Market Photo trade going and going, finally logging an impressive $1760 in total donations to the Whistler Children’s Centre Father Daughter Dance fundraiser on May 8. At the final tally, $200 worth of tickets to the Olympus Pro Photographer showdown at this year’s TELUS Festival netted $3300 in…
Food and gross-outs at Whistler’s first Pecha Kucha
On Sunday April 18 Whistler hosted its first PechaKuchaNight. Event curator Aki Kaltenbach invited me to join her group of presenters, alongside Hana, the founder of TwoGirlsForking, “Living the Dream” photographer Carin Smolinski, sexy stitchophile Michelle Lee, who is equally passionate about suturing rotting gums as sewing gorgeous wedding dresses, accidental sexpert (and the star of 72 hour…
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