Winter 2006


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OUTDOOR ADVENTURE

Party balloons

by Lynn Tanod

Vernon's Hot Air Balloon Fiesta delivers high-flying excitement during the North Okanagan city's annual winter carnival.

TRAVEL

Coolest Fernie

by Anita Willis, Robyn Swanson, and Shanna Baker

Get away to this Rocky Mountain powder keg, where the locals are friendly, the snow is fly and dry, and toques are the height of fashion.

 

WILDLIFE
The secrets of jellyfish
by Shanna Baker

You know they sting. But did you know these ocean invertebrates may also glow in the dark, shoot poison darts, and perhaps even cure Alzheimer’s?

TRAVEL
Paddling to T'anuu

by Claire Stirling

A kayaking journey introduces visitors to the cultural legacy of this historic island in Haida Gwaii, its past remembered in the art of carver Bill Reid and painter Emily Carr.

HISTORY

An eccentric eye

by Rosemary Neering

Hannah Maynard's portraits reflect the social strata of 19th-century Victoria and reveal a woman fascinated with reality and illusion, death and the beyond.

DESTINATION

Rossland

by J.B. MacKinnon

Winter spreads a meringue of hummocky white over Rossland, an authentic mountain town in the West Kootenay.

ECHOES

Sinking of the Tonquin

by Rosemary Neering

An American captain's volatile temper ignited an explosion of violence among the Tla-o-qui-aht people in 1811, bringing the Tonquin's trading voyage to a bloody end in Clayoquot Sound.

OUTDOOR ADVISOR

Foul weather wear

by Larry Pynn

Foul weather wear: how to choose the right raingear to keep you dry while others are getting drenched.