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From sporting and cultural events to fantastic finds for anyone visiting Whistler anytime, the SnowSeeker team covered it all.
- Mar. 1/10
This Olympic journey has been three weeks in the making for the SnowSeekers crew, but in a sense it's also been 6 months (since the season started), 2 1/2 years (since the company started), and a decade and a half (since the bids for Vancouver began). For some, these past few weeks have been the culmination of five year's work, others their entire lives. But when that calendar page flipped over to March 1, the journey was all over.
- Mar. 1/10
Even though they were a few hours away from the Closing Ceremonies in Vancouver, the people of Whistler were as awash in the glow of victory as any of their provincial neighbours last night.
- Feb. 28/10
It's embarrassing, but today I finally got in a ski on Whistler Mountain. In my defense, the frickin' Olympics are kind of going on right now, so don't start building my cross or anything. Realistically, I can ski any time I want and I may never experience the Olympics first-hand ever again. Not much of a toss-up, in my opinion. That's what I thought.
- Feb. 28/10
I can't recall a time where I've felt such euphoria, such uninhibited joy. I hugged more strangers in the last hour than I have in my entire life. My hands are red from the high fives I've given. My throat is run raw from the screaming I've done.
- Feb. 28/10
No disrespect to Doc Pow and the bountiful breakfasts that have been cooked up in the SnowSeekers RV all week, but today's pancake breakfast at Canada House was the best meal I've had before noon all Olympics long.
- Feb. 27/10 I'm not what you'd call a paranormal fan. I don't buy into ghosts, or spirits, or the netherworld. I regard clairvoyants in much the same way I do Criss Angel or David Copperfield. Given this preface, I did something strange today. I went to a psychic.
- Feb. 27/10
Try as it might, the pouring rain couldn't dampen spirits at the Whistler Sliding Centre today, nor could the bracing cold, or the agonizingly long lines that, I swear, must have stretched from Whistler all the way to Penticton.
- Feb. 26/10
As of this morning, there have been no reported deaths by way of "mitten mauling" in Whistler Village. From what I saw today while waiting to get into The Olympic Store, I suspect that those numbers have been smudged a little.
- Feb. 25/10 With just one walk through Whistler Village a person can marvel at and take photos of a dozen sculptures and statues.
- Feb. 24/10
It's called the Norwegian Church Abroad (or Sjomannskirken), and it has served as the hub of Norwegian activity during the 2010 Games.
- Feb. 24/10
For Patrick O'Meara of Connecticut, the Olympic Games have become a bi-annual event. After attending the Sydney Olympics in the summer of 2000, O'Meara has experienced every Olympics since, both winter and summer.
- Feb. 24/10
Team Canada was on a slippery slope. The loss to the Americans on Sunday was a shock to the system, for sure, despite the fact that the Canadians carried the play for the majority of the game, and were the victim of some shaky goaltending in their own end and some stellar goaltending in the other.
- Feb. 23/10
There are certain activities that, when doing them, one can't help but feel like a kid again: Go-Karting, watching Looney Tunes, pouring milk in a bowl before cereal ("it tastes better...").
- Feb. 23/10 Whistler Village was ever-so-slightly brighter today, blissfully alive with dancing faeries and pretty pixies. Adorned in ruffling tutus, hats shaped like flowers, and flowers shaped like hats, the revelers displayed a sense of wild, unadulterated glee unlike anything I've seen.
- Feb. 22/10 Kids, punctuality pays off. Forget all this "fashionably late" garbage; good things happen when you're on time. And if you're lucky – like I was today – you might experience something you might not have otherwise.
- Feb. 22/10 Throughout the past 10 days, Whistler has showcased record-breaking performances from some of the most incredible athletes in the world.
- Feb. 22/10 Let's make a few things abundantly clear: I don't like dance music, I don't like dancing, and I especially don't like it when dance music is combined with dancing.
- Feb. 21/10
Made by skiers, for skiers, heidiskis were inspired by the longest days and most spectacular conditions. Today, at the Switzerland House in Whistler's Marketplace, Heidiski founder, Heidi Blum spoke of the company's goal to change the expectations for how skis should perform.
- Feb. 21/10 What a difference a day makes. Twenty-four hours ago, I was camped out on my living room couch in pajamas, sporting only one sock and a three-day puberty beard, watching the Olympics on CBC and TSN like everybody else.
- Feb. 21/10 When Melissa Hollingsworth went into turn six during her fourth and final run on Friday, she hoped it would catapult her into first place and a gold medal.
- Feb. 19/10 As I type this, the world is a very comfortable, relaxing place.
- Feb. 19/10
Though my pin collecting became somewhat of an obsession, I am quite proud of what I’ve managed to acquire during the games.
- Feb. 18/10 There’s a well-known joke amongst snowboarders: What’s the difference between a beginner skier and a professional? About a week. For Ghana’s Kwame Nkrumah-Acheampong, know as the Snow Leopard, however, it took six years of unrivaled dedication, and perseverance to be able to bare his nation’s flag in the Olympics.
- Feb 18/10
The afternoon was winding down and I was enjoying some beers in the lounge car of the Vancouver to Whistler Alberta Train with Alberta country music star, Aaron Lines, chuck wagon driver, Kurt Bensmiller and bull riding champ, Ty Elliot.
- Feb. 18/10 Growing up in Alberta makes you a little crazy, and extremely outgoing. After all, how many places is sliding head first down a river-valley ice-bank, in –30C, considered recreational … and social?
- Feb. 18/10 So many ski trips begin early in the morning. Forcing yourself to get up, load up, and head out can be tough. But today is Alberta Day, and today things were different.
- Feb 18/10
Across the street, the Check Republic is battling it out against Slovakia. At Cypress, Shaun White is winning gold for the Unites States, again. But, as far away as the events of the games can transport someone, it’s always familiar times at the Alberta House, especially on Alberta day.
- Feb. 16/10
As we approached the entrance to the Pan Pacific hotel, a rhythmic thumping could be heard. Salomon was having a party, and just like its free ski sessions, it was about to go off.
- Feb. 15/10 The cowbells clanged as the crowd began to chant, “Robbie, Robbie, Robbie.”
- Feb. 15/10
Nadia Durig, from Kelowna, British Columbia, jumped at the chance to represent her family’s heritage by getting in on the action happening around the games.
- Feb. 15/10
“I have a Canadian for Will,” shouted the chef, holding a beautiful disaster. The tin corrugated dish – normally reserved for Chinese take out – bowed under the sheer weight of the meal it contained.
- Feb. 14/10 It began as a formality. “Here, have a pin,” said Nancy Greene during the Slovenia House opening last night. I didn’t even look at it. Just stuck it to my lanyard and smiled. But something changed as I pinched the backing, pierced the canvass, and pressed the trinket into place.
- Feb. 13/10
Canada House opened today as any good Canadian venue should: with breakfast.
- Feb. 13/10
One of the best things about travel is you never know what or who is around the corner.
- Feb. 12/10
Nearing the top of the hill, on the second last lift before the top is bittersweet.
- Feb. 11/10
In 1996, I was living in Vancouver, British Columbia working with the now concluded PGA Tour Air Canada Championship.
- Feb. 11/10
“There’s way more to it than people realize,” says Stefan Jones. Standing in the Whistler tuning station I was about to learn just how true Jones’ statement is.
- Feb. 11/10
“That third gate is seriously wicked,” said Max Isaac as he looks over the men’s downhill course. Today is training day for the skiers, and according to Isaac they’ll need to pull out all the stops to top the podium on a course that isn’t “a token Olympic downhill.”
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