Whistler Watch

• Here’s a very skeptical look at Whistler’s attempt to offset emissions for the games. - Mountain Express
• Whistler has its own brand of compost. That’s cool. I mean… That’s s%!#. - The Pique
• The Garbanzo bike park is opening on Saturday. - Doglotion.com

• Oh yeah, that’s what we’re talking about… Limited edition Whistler pins! - The Pique
• This is absurd! Whistler Search and Rescue teams will shut down because they government won’t insure them! This is in order to save lives! - The National Post
• Uh oh… People are soliciting… They’re soliciting tourist information… There must be bylaws against this. - The Vancouver Sun

• Restaurants won’t be getting as much business during the Olympics as they had hoped. Big name companies (like RBC) are scaling back their Olympic reservations at restaurants during the Olympics. - News1130
• Canadian national ski team trains by playing ice hockey. - Canada.com
• Hahah. One of the bachelors on the hit T.V. series The Bachelorette got car sick on the drive up to Whistler. EW.com

Whistler is going to have pay parking all over the place. As of now, they’ve expanded pay parking in the municipality and they’re going to continue to do this as they spend more money on parking lots in preperation for the Olympics.

This has caused an outrage and there’s a petition going around to prevent this from happening.

Most people can understand why this would be the case during the Olympics, but most don’t want to see this happen now. Locals especially.

Please sign the petition. There’s one in The Second Cup. If you know of any others please write them in the comments below.

Also, join the facebook group.

• Up to 130 buses daily are taking people from Vancouver to Whistler - Freep.com
• Vancouver Islanders won’t be able to take the ferry and see most events in one day. They’ll have to find a hotel room. - Canada.com
• Apparently Whistler had 35% of North American ski sales! Woah!!! - mountainnews.com

• After several years in storage, they’re bringing back the giant Challenger map. It doesn’t have a home yet. - Vancouver Sun
• Job posting: Looking for a pharmacist. - Criagslist.org
• They’re building the snow park! - Camp of Champions Blog

• Apparently we can only have 14 skiers in the Olympics. This is a new Olympic rule, apparently our skiers are too specialized, so to allow for competition, we have to cut our number of Olympians down. - Canada.com
• B.C. is preparing for the pandemic that is Swine Flu. I’ve actually seen a few people with face masks on walking around Whistler. - The Metro
• Whistler deals for Pan Pacific. - The Globe and Mail

• The Bachelorette coming to Whistler is making big news! That’s good for our town. - examiner.com
• Young film makers have a great opportunity at the Whistler Film Festival - The Pique
• It really doesn’t surprise me that the mayors from all over Canada love Whistler. The annual conference for the Federation of Canadian Municipalities was a huge success. - The Question
• Whistler is expanding it’s water supply. As the municipality grows, so does it’s demand for clean drinkable water. - The Question

• What happens in Whistler doesn’t stay in Whistler. You cuss off someone from Toronto, you better appologize. - CBC.ca
• Olympic Legacy Trust is down $25 million. No biggie. It happens. - The Pique
• There was a mentally unstable dude with a gun driving around the Olympic Village. He got caught. - The Province
• You know that pay parking is coming to Whistler… right? - CTV

• Debit card scam in Whister has been traced back to a Quiznos in West Van. - North Shore Outlook
• It’s good to know that sibling rivalries also take place in the Olympics, Whistler’s Janyk brother and sister are a perfect example. - The Amherst Daily
• The ups and downs of retailing during the Olympics. - Vancouver Sun

This is a really shady situation. I’ve posted it in the daily links, but I just wanted to write something and touch on this.

Someone died in Lost Lake on Saturday around 6pm. He was a 24 year old man from Washington. That’s seriously a tragedy. I can’t believe that something like this would happen.

RCMP dive team didn’t find his body until Sunday despite several attempts by his friends to find him and pull him out.

The water is still really cold. It’s so important to be careful and not mix intoxicants with swimming.

It’s so shady. It’s so close to home. I mean, we hear about deaths on the mountain all the time, but the mountain is huge! Lost Lake is such a tiny little pond that we all go to for refuge and chill out time.

Please be careful.

Source: The Province

• You know that Federation of Canadian Municipalities conference going on in Whistler right now? Well, they have a new President. His name is Basil Stewart. - The Journal Pioneer
• AH! This is horrible! A 24 year old guy from Washington drowned in Lost Lake on Saturday - News1130
• They are bringing the Bachelorette to Whistler - Worldhum.com