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By Kat Hodgson Featured Image: Bruce’s photo of his light table setup to view his slides. Before beginning my internship at the Whistler Museum, I had never visited the town before. In October 2025, I arrived as an outsider. I also arrived grieving. The day before I moved, my grandfather suddenly passed away, marking the […]

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Featured Image: Keven “Big Kev” Mickelsen presents at last year’s Icon Gone. Whistler Museum Collection. It could be argued that a signpost or a benchmark of a town’s maturity can be tabulated by how many significant symbols/things/happenings/elements-uniquely-local that have come to be associated with it, can now be referred to in the past tense… measuring [&#...

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Featured Image: L – R: Punchy, Nes and Jibber / Photographer Credits: INISIGHT Collection, Shannon Doohan; Dagan Beach; Rich Glass This article continues on from last week’s first installment featuring the reflections of three pioneering women from the early ‘golden age of snowboarding’ – ‘Punchy’ (Sherry [Newstead] Boyd), ‘Nes’ (Vanessa Stark) and ‘Jibber’ (Jennifer Godbo...

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Feature Image: From Left to Right: Nes, Jibber and Punchy (L to R: INSIGHT Collection, Grey Eymundson; Whistler Question Collection; INSIGHT Collection, Shannon Doohan) “The most exciting thing to watch right now is women’s snowboarding, women’s skateboarding,” exclaims Jen ‘Jibber’ Godbout – one of the original gals who made her mark amongst the 90s ‘bad-boy’ […]

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