Winter 2009
It’s our “do-it-yourself winter games” issue! Enjoy vicarious thrills and comical spills as our daring writers (brave souls, all) demonstrate snowy sports of the Vancouver 2010 Olympic Winter Games. * In our action-packed photo essay of wildlife athletes, cougars, grizzlies, wolves and other animals demonstrate their speed, strength, and endurance in the wild. * What to do after the Games are over? Check out dogsledding in the Cariboo, and backcountry ski touring in the Purcell Mountains.
Cover: Whistler Mountain and the surrounding Coast Mountains.
Photo: Randy Lincks/Corbis
Let the Games begin
Observations from the editor of British Columbia Magazine.
Letters to the Editor
See what readers are talking about
Winter Games Due West
Excerpts from the Winter 2009 Olympic Winter Games-themed Due West department.
Whistler: An insider’s guide
Our local writer divulges some secret pleasures of life in this celebrated West Coast ski town—the official Host Mountain Resort of the 2010 Winter Games.
Do-it-yourself winter games
Enjoy vicarious thrills and comical spills as our daring writers (brave souls, all) demonstrate six winter sports of the Vancouver 2010 Olympic Games
Postal pups
Mushers in the annual three-day, 100-kilometre Cariboo sled-dog run from Quesnel to Wells employ old-fashioned canine power to deliver the federal mail.
The powderful Purcells
A dozen backcountry skiers aged 54 to 77 head for the Kootenays to prove they’re only as old as their last set of fresh tracks.
Faster, higher, stronger
The athletic exploits of our wildlife Olympians
A flash of greatness
Scrawny Vancouver sprinter Percy Williams shocked the running world at the 1928 Olympic Games, winning double gold to become a British Columbia sports hero.
The big sleep
How to choose a new sleeping bag.
