Humans need sleep plain and simple, deprive them of sleep for long enough and hallucinations become rampant followed by delirium and then death. Many things can be the root of sleep deprivation; newborn infant in the family, torture, university studies, party snake bite, or an overactive mind. I even saw a movie once (I think it was a [...]
If you were a child from my era (or if you are anyone else that has the Teletoon Network), then you would remember the Superfriends. It was a cartoon where a crew of superheroes worked together at the Hall of Justice hanging around the water cooler (always in costume) until some super-villain decided to take over [...]
We are two weeks out from opening the Whistler Mountain Bike Park and this place is like a beehive of activity with more buzz happening each day we tick closer to the season kick off. Today for example, there are shop guys building the GBB bike shop and rental guys building bikes by the dozen. [...]
It’s funny how bears and bikers live in a parallel universe at Whistler Mountain Bike Park, both are emerging from their winter dens groggy and disheveled. Both bears and bikers await the uncapping of the ski runs from their winter coats. For bears it means clover sprouting out of the moist soil signaling lunch, while [...]
There is documented proof that SAD (Seasonal Affectiveness Disorder) is a real, albeit temporary disorder that afflicts many people who reside at northern latitudes. The premise is that Homo sapiens need X amount of sunlight in order to modulate moods and when the elliptical orbit of the earth around the sun sends us into the [...]
In January everyone was complaining about how little snow we had. We always get +3m at mid-mountain and it is just a matter of when it comes. The bad news is that it seems to be coming now; the good news is that at this time of year it doesn’t seem to stick around below [...]
The Whistler Mountain Bike Park will be opening its first lift-accessed alpine mountain bike trail to riders this summer. The alpine trail named “Top of the World” will be accessible from the Peak Chair at the summit of Whistler Mountain and will lead riders into the Garbanzo Zone of the Whistler Mountain Bike Park. The [...]
Other New Partnerships Include RockShox Suspension And AVID Brakes While Longstanding Relationship With SRAM Continues WHISTLER, BC, February 1, 2012 – Whistler Mountain Bike Park and Giant Bicycles are excited to announce they will be working together for the 2012 bike season. Giant, one of mountain biking’s top bike manufacturers, will become the official [...]
Its mid-January, it’s -20c outside and I’m looking for any reason I can find to avoid going out on the hill. Some might call me out for being such a wimp since regular Canadians deal with -20c or colder for months on end during the deep dark portion of winter. I feel no shame in [...]
Brian Finestone