MOUNTAIN LIFE - Coast Mountains | Winter / Spring 2018

WINTER/SPRING 2018 MLCM 107 He drank Jack & Jills (Jack Daniels and ginger ale). Anyhow, we were invited up for a dinner party at their place and after dinner we played Pictionary and charades. Someone put his name into the hat and, unluckily, I pulled out his name. I was about 20 at the time and I had to act out Keith Richards to Keith Richards. It was the worst. At first I was playing air guitar, probably so lame and everyone was yelling out every other guitarist in the world. So then I tried acting out his way of drawing at Pictionary and he yelled out, ‘Me!’ Ha!” FACT #4 EVERYTHING ACE KNOWS SHE HAS TAUGHT HERSELF, BECAUSE SHE COMES FROM BEFORE “HOW-TO” YOUTUBE VIDEOS WERE A THING. Jorge: “You have had photography published in the New York Times and also extensive cinematography (on film and video) for a number of Greg Stump ski films, commercials, short movies and music videos. You are a DJ, accomplished seamstress, decorator, writer, radio host, event organizer, graphic designer, a really good skier, go-go dancer, and four hundred other rad things.” Ace: “I was also a waitress, that’s what I did when I moved to Whistler in 1987. I kind of miss it sometimes because it gives you a reason to go up and talk to people you don’t know. And figure out how much you can joke with these people, when to back off, etc. I think Whistler is funny that way, if you want to stay here, especially if you are not in a career job, then you have to have multiple jobs. For me, I didn’t go to university because I didn’t know what I wanted to do, so I used my saved money to travel around Europe for a year. I came home to work at Expo 86 and then ended up in Whistler. Back then, there weren’t all the businesses there are now so if someone needed decorating for a party they’d ask, ‘can you do this?’ I would say, sure. Then other things would come up and I’d say yes, and then figure out how to do it. Whenever something in my house stops working, I always take it apart and try to fix it. And if I can’t fix them I turn them into a costume. That’s how ‘ToasterHead’ was born.” FACT # 5 ACE IS NOT A FEMINIST. Ace: “A humanist, that’s what I am. I would describe myself as a humanist, not a feminist. Although I am a feminist as well (all good men are too), but humanist is more inclusive. When I ride the chairlift with someone I always want to be welcoming, so I don’t actually ever ask people ‘where are you from?’ I ask, ‘do you live here?’ I’m assuming they’re local instead of making them feel like a tourist right off the bat. It works.” FACT # 6.9 ACE IS AN AQUARIAN FIRE HORSE, ALWAYS THE LAST PERSON STANDING AT PARTIES, AND HER LEGENDARY, ANNUAL HOTDOGGIN’ PARTY RIVALS RIO’S CARNIVAL, BURNING MAN AND MUNICH’S BEER FEST IN POPULARITY. PEOPLE COME FROM OTHER GALAXIES TO ATTEND, WEAR RETRO SKI GEAR, AND COMPETE IN SKI BALLET. Ace: “You have never come though, Jorge. You should come. It comes from growing up on a ski hill and ‘cause my dad isn’t around anymore, it’s carrying on his tradition of a fun ski party. This year is the tenth anniversary, so we might have to give away a car.” "I DIDN’T HAVE PADDED RACE PANTS FOR AWHILE SO I WOULD RACE IN JEANS WITH FASHION MAGAZINES TUCKED INTO THEM AS PADDING TO PROTECT MY HIPS AND ELBOWS FROM BRUISING." Photo shoot for a POWDER feature called Lust. ERIC BERGER