TICKS SUCK: Fear and Loathing with the Swiss Army Knife of Disease Vectors
I jump at every tickle on my skin. My scalp tingles under my hat. I have the constant feeling that something’s crawling up my leg.
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Leslie Anthony
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Enlighten Up: The Life Yogic, Part II
by Leslie Anthony Bikram (hot yoga)—the unanticipated whipping boy of a dinner-party discussion about the yin-yang of yoga conducted largely by devotees—eventually caught a break, though the rancorous/humorous litany around…
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BATTLE ROYALE: POWDER ANGST vs. CONTENTMENT
Sometimes in skiing you just need a little Zen. Photo Leslie Anthony. by Leslie Anthony and Asta Kovanen I’m that guy. Crack of dawn on a powder day, in the…
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BACKCOUNTRY CHAOS? Naturally.
by Leslie Anthony The backcountry, say many in Whistler, is an over-crowded disaster, descending into chaos. Is there a problem there? Not unless you consider a renaissance in design, materials…
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OLYMPIC WISH LIST: Bring Back the Barrel Jump
by Leslie Anthony In this Olympic season I’d like to talk a bit about a pure, backyard-bred, gauntlet-throwing event that many people of my generation were convinced was once in…
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When the Going Gets Weird…
by Leslie Anthony In what was likely one of his more lucid moments, gonzo journalist Hunter S. Thompson famously stated that “When the going gets weird, the weird turn pro.”…
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The Powder Plan
by Leslie Anthony There’s nothing like a big dump at Whistler Blackcomb. You can feel the vibe even before you go outside in the morning—and that doesn’t mean reverberations from…
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A Measure of Legend
by Leslie Anthony The snow finally came to B.C.. And when it came I was in one of the best places you could be for it. I hadn’t been to…
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MOUNTAIN CULTURE: permanent state or a planet we’re just visiting?
by Leslie Anthony We hear a lot about what draws people to mountains. What makes us want to climb, conquer and commune with them. There are many reasons people forsake…
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Ban Plastic Bags in Mountain Resorts? Rubbish!
by Leslie Anthony Last week I posted a funny piece about what to do with the tsunami of tsunami debris expected to hit the west coast of North America in…
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Ellipse — Once more around the sun, please.
Living in the courts of the sky I forgot I was of the earth —Lionel Terray, Conquistadors of the Useless by Leslie Anthony Not much really happens in a year…
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