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.
Category: mountain culture
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…
Artist Scott Dickson in 3 Words: Pretty Awesome Talent.
I interviewed Scott Dickson by email last week for an artist profile for the Kokanee Crankworx Event Guide. Dickson’s art brings a vibrant and vivid energy to the 2011 event poster – it’s a refreshing alternative to the photo-heavy approach that event posters often resort to. Sometimes the freeride world with its gladiator vibe and…
Whistler Mountain Bike Park Opening Day means Crankworx is 53 days away
I recently pulled the dusty old hypewriter from the back of the closet, where it was languishing in semi-retirement, to crank out some verbiage for service as boilerplate and taglines for a somewhat large and kickass mountain bike festival known as the Kokanee Crankworx. (I thought I’d reformed my ways and sworn off hyperbole forever, but…
Freeride mountain biking’s game-changing moments
I’m working on a story for the Crankworx event guide that will attempt to map out the history of freeride mountain biking, to chart a “progression” that took us from the 1976 Repack bike race that burned through everyone’s brakepads, to Greg Watts’ backflip double tailwhip, in 35 years. In 1954, runner Roger Bannister broke the…
Confessions of a copywriter : a Bike ad for Tourism Whistler
Some days you discover that the bike rider and the copywriter are one and the same: just a girl in search of flow.
What would you blow off to ride? Confession-time.
The first time I rode A River Runs Through It (fist-pump! Cleared the bridge! Husband pushed his bike across… ), I should really have been somewhere else. I had blown off the second half of the Slow Food Cycle, an event I had organised, to switch the road cruiser for a squishy bike and go…
Heliskiing with Canadian Olympic decathlete, Mike Smith
The second most intimidating moment on a heliskiing trip, (after the Burning Walk of Scrutiny) is not actually watching the safety video, where all the perils that face you are articulated in graphic, litigation-proof detail, but the instant where, standing atop the untracked snow of your first run, the guide says, “Okay. Buddy up.” Having…
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