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Former Olympian Nancy Greene passes the flame to next generation
February 22, 2010 · Leave a Comment
Sun Peaks Resort is a feature chapter in our best-selling guide book Best Weekend Getaways from Vancouver. Here’s why. Nancy Greene wears so many mantles it’s a challenge to tally them all: world-champion skier, Olympian, hotelier, university chancellor, senator. The woman nicknamed “Tiger” could also just as easily be dubbed “coach”, especially by those who tag along on one of the daily mountain tours she offers visitors to her home at Sun Peaks Resort near Kamloops. She has been the director of skiing... [Read the full story]
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Make tracks to city beaches in Vancouver
March 5, 2010 · Leave a Comment
Yan Li (left) and Gang Xiao reached Wreck Beach from Pacific Spirit Regional Park’s Trail 4. If there’s one sight visitors to Vancouver seek on arrival, it’s the Pacific Ocean. For neophytes, that initial encounter often proves underwhelming. They can be excused for asking what time the surf comes up. The rhythm of the world’s largest body of water is decidedly more muted around the city’s shoreline than farther afield on the wave-thumped west coast of Vancouver Island. However, once expectations have been rejigged... [Read the full story]
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Ryan Leech and the Trials Of Life
July 25, 2009 · 2 Comments
The Lower Mainland is the epicentre of what’s shaking in the world of fat tire cycling, whether hucking off North Shore drops or hopping around the trials park in Port Moody. No one epitomizes this more than Ryan Leech, a professional trials rider, extreme mountain biker and monster freerider. We’re pleased to feature Ryan as a guest on our site. Trials Riding Ryan Leech discovered he had a talent for trials riding – a blend of balance and hopping skills – when he was 13. He’s twice that now... [Read the full story]
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