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We’re a team of writers, photographers, filmmakers, artists and athletes based in Whistler, BC, Canada.
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You always hear about the lack of women in ski towns but here in Whistler we not only have lots, they all rip. The Insider chats with three homegrown Olympians about skipping school, riding pow and other joys of growing up in Whistler.
Whistler freeskier Mauro Nunez has been performing in the Fire & Ice show every winter weekend since 1999. The Insider gets him to reveal the secrets of the flame.
Usually people talk about the weather when they have nothing else to say but here in Whistler, where those all-time powder days can strike at anytime, everyone is an Amateur Meteorologist.
The Whistler Sliding Centre is much more than “Olympic Leftovers.” It’s a place designed to build stronger athletes and create brand new ones. And for the public it offers a chance to go really, really fast.
It’s all fun and games until someone kicks off a class 4 avalanche, or ends up lost in a creek bed with no food or shelter, or breaks their femur or… It’s all fun and games until it isn’t… then it’s time to call Brad Sills and Whistler Search & Rescue.
Here in Canada we call them Toques and these grab-and-go headwarmers were just voted “Best Example of Whistler Style” in the local newspaper. The Insider heads out on the town to get the skinny on toques, beanies, knit caps or whatever else they’re called.
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