I got asked to write a little lovesong to Pemberton – to make the thousand word case why it’s the best community to live in, in the Sea to Sky – and I still don’t really understand why I found it so hard. (I shared the final piece earlier this week.) Ten years ago, even…
Royal Rumble: Pemberton
In the spring issue of Mountain Life, Coast Mountains, the communities of the corridor flex on their unique attributes. I got to speak for Pemberton. via https://www.mountainlifemedia.ca/2024/03/royal-rumble-pemberton/ Wayne Andrew, Líl̓wat horseman and a legendary rodeo rider in his prime, told me recently how Pemberton got its name. A story his grandfather told him. Passed on…
Sea to Sky gets its own Edible magazine = Yum.
In the fall I got a call from Terra Gaddes – she was starting a food magazine and someone she knows in the Meadows suggested I might be able to recommend some contributors. She’s worked for 27 years as a child and youth care counsellor. Buying into the Edible magazine franchise, to launch Edible Sea…
The Art of Farming
The Art of Farming ran in the debut issue of Edible Sea to Sky magazine. Photos by Brenda Bakker. At Laughing Crow Organics, the empty spring field is Kerry McCann’s blank canvas Every year, the impossible goal to provision 600 households starts with the same blank canvas: bare earth, covered in snow, and a new…
The Luck Factor of Tonje Kvivik
Tonje has recently signed with Arc’teryx, so I was asked to interview her for a “Welcome to the team” profile. I have never failed to be impressed with the athletes who join this brand’s roster – and Tonje is just as personable and engaging. We bonded so hard over a mutual appreciation for Katie Burrell,…
Is the City Dreaming You or Are You Dreaming the City? Meeting my 20 year old self in New York City
One of my oldest friends was laid off last May from a firm she’d been working with since we graduated in the late 90s. She decided, after securing commitments from friends to join, to use her severance to splurge on a month-long sabbatical in New York’s Chelsea neighbourhood. I was one of the friends. COVID-19…
Katie Burrell on putting yourself out there
If instead of Barbie, Greta Gerwig had had to spend 2022 remaking Hot Dog… the Movie, after living and working a couple of seasons in a ski town, Weak Layers might be the result. Luckily for us, mountain culture has its own Greta Gerwig and her name is Katie Burrell. Our very own ‘action sports’…
Spotlighting Alex van Zyl and the culture-shaping superpowers of landscape architects and design of place
I’ve worked before with the wonderful Tom Barratt of Tom Barratt Landscape Architecture – he’s a long-time Pique reader and he often has a sense of something that might be a story of interest to me. (This piece on his work in the Chilcotins, which required the long-time road biker to take some mountain bike…
Tom Prochazka – How to Build a Global Mountain Bike Community
Tom Pro is a genuine legend in Whistler, and the global bike community, so it was a treat to profile him for Interstellar Mountain Culture magazine, because honestly, I wish I could sometimes say to the next generation of mountain culture and resort leaders: be more like Pro. Here’s the profile: Tom Prochazka speaks several…
Hope in a Time of Precarity – want to come to Hollyhock this September?
Last year, I had delicious plans to go on a summer camp with some of my favourite humans to hear Wade Davis and David Abrams at Hollyhock. It felt like something, AT LAST, to look forward to, after the pandemic’s hard yards. And then, the day before I was supposed to jump on the ferry…
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