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…
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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…
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