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Big White’s racing legend inducted into the B.C. Sports Hall of Fame Zoe Athans never had the chance to see her father Greg compete as one of the best freestyle skiers in the world.

Now a 19-year-old physics/engineering student at UBC, Zoe was only 11 years old when Greg Athans passed away in 2006, at just 51 years of age, suffering complications from

type II diabetes.

The gregarious Athans was a pioneer in the sport of freestyle skiing, a multiple-time world champion and a self-taught innovator. Also a world class water skiier his accomplishments will finally be recognized by the B.C. Sports Hall of Fame, who will induct Athans posthumously as part of the class of 2014.

But as good as he was on the slopes or on the water, or later in his life as a photographer, it was as a person and a father where Greg Athans really seemed to excel.

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inside: Local Legend recognized

Greg Athans inducted to B.C. Sports Hall of Fame .......... 2

Adaptive snowboarding

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Continued from page 2 “I didn’t get to see him when he was skiing but I know he was always the best Dad anyone could ever have,” said Zoe this week. “He was the kindest person I ever met.

He never raised his voice. He was the most kind-hearted person you could meet.

When officially inducted in 2014, Greg Athans will become the third member of his family to reside in the B.C. Sports Hall of Fame, joining his father George Sr. and his older brother George Jr. The Athans didn’t compete and excel in sports because they wanted to win awards. They did it because they had a passion for it, instilled in them by their parents, both competitive athletes.

And Greg took the ball and ran, taking what was a fringe sport of freestyle skiing and pushing it to become an Olympic sport and one that Canada has excelled at for decades.

“I don’t think Greg or any of our family members were involved in

sports because we wanted notoriety,” said George Jr. from his home in Montreal. “We all did it for the passion. I think Greg would be honoured by this. Personally if I look at his achievements in his particular sport I think he should have been in that B.C. Sports Hall of Fame a long time ago. Probably his accomplishments were far greater than what I did. But he was overlooked. This time they realized it was time and I’m really happy for that. I’ve always been very proud of his accomplishments.”

Greg Athans' list of accomplishments is outstanding. Four world freestyle titles, two world moguls titles, one world ballet title. He changed the sport of freestyle skiing and helped take it mainstream. On the water he won the Canadian water ski championships an incredible 15 times.

Younger brother Gary said he was an unbelievable role model.

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As I have found out he knew this applied to all aspects of life. I’m sad he could not be here to receive this award. He deserves it.”

For Zoe Athans and no doubt her older sister Carly, the lessons they learned from Greg Athans will last longer than any single sporting award. Still, Zoe said it’s nice to see her father honoured by the B.C. Sports Hall.

“I know when he was alive he always wanted to be inducted into the hall with his dad and brother,” said Zoe. “He always taught me to try my best and instilled in me that I could do anything I wanted to do if I set my mind to it. I always want to do my best and I always want to make my family proud because it’s a big name to live up to. I’m really excited about this.

It’s a big honour for our family” In the end, the sports accomplishments were

secondary to Greg Athans and as his family remembers the man that was instrumental in shaping many lives, it is the person and the lessons that he left behind that are being remembered.

“We all miss him,” said George Jr. “We all miss his great sense of humour. He was kind of an iconoclast in the way he did everything his way and differently than everyone else.

But if you ever asked him his crowning moment or his greatest achievement, he would always tell you that it was his two daughters.”

Greg Athans will be officially inducted into the B.C. Sports Hall of Fame this September.

The late Greg Athans, a freestyle skiing pioneer, will be posthumously inducted into the BC Sports Hall of Fame.

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They’ve been featured on North American and Australian television programs for their adaptive skiing, now People In Motion’s Powder Hounds Adaptive snow sports adds snowboarding to the program What do hula hoops and mountains have in common?

Snowboarding, according to the Powder Hounds Adaptive Ski Club.

While it’s not technically a hula hoop in the gymnastics

sense, the club will be using a device that looks extremely similar to help guide their new snowboarders down the mountain just as the volunteer team do with the Continued on page 8

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This is the first year the adaptive snow-sports program operating off Big White will offer snowboarding and the decision to move forward with it is largely due to the arrival of another team of experts.

“I found out through the grapevine that the paralympic snowboarding team is establishing their training base at Big White this season and we realized it was a good opportunity to partner with them to learn the sport and have us become an organization that could feed potential athletes to them down the road,” said Tony Lenarcic, Powder Hounds president.

Six instructors have been assembled to go with two more experienced instructors who have received certification through the Canadian Snowboard Federation. And they’re lining up equipment, like that snowboarding hula hoop, to help.

“There’s something called a board-buddy. It’s very similar to a handle a windsurfer uses except it’s elliptical in shape and fits around a snowboarder’s waist.

It’s like a hula hoop, but elliptical,” Lenarcic explained.

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guide the snowboarder into position—and then it’s off to the races.

The Powder Hounds Adaptive Ski Club operates out of an organization in Kelowna called People in Motion, which has been helping those with physical, sensory or cognitive disabilities participate in the community for 26 years.

The small non-profit was inspired by Rick Hansen’s Man in Motion tour, getting its start as part of a movement of groups formed across the country in the 1980s. From loaning sports equipment to providing transportation, the organization relies on more than 80 volunteers to help ensure everyone in this valley has the opportunity to fully enjoy the Okanagan lifestyle.

“Basically how we describe ourselves is we do promote inclusion and equality for all persons with disabilities,” said Louise Abbott, People in Motion executive director when interviewed for this magazine in 2012.

People in Motion began offering adaptive sports with wheelchair basketball and quickly added vans equipped to move people with disabilities to their program.

They acquired a bus with lifts, started loaning the vans and 14 years ago, under the guidance of Jon Rescorla and Anthony Hutton, created the Powder Hounds.

The Ski/Board-A-Thon gives individuals and teams the opportunity to raise money by colContinued on page 16

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The first Canadian paralympic snowboard team spends the month on Big White preparing for the Sochi games in March and competing at the Para Snowboard World Cup Boardercross event January 25-26 on the hill.

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Michelle Salt is the exception,

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says her coach Candice Drouin of the Snowboard Canada paralympic team.

Exceptional, extraordinary, almost unbelievable might be how anyone else hearing her story might put it. Two-and-a-half years after she lost her right leg—and broke her pelvis and hips, acquired multiple compound fractures while severing her femoral artery, nearly causing her to bleed to death on an Alberta highway—she’s queuing up to take on the world as a paralympic snowboarder.

“When I was told about my leg I definitely had my moment of sadness, but it was pretty quickly after that I decided I wanted to be a paralympian,” she says, while training at Aspire Gym in Kelowna.

Aspire is one of several venues helping the first para snowboard olympic hopefuls supplement their training time on Big White in preparation for the 2014 Winter Paralympics in Sochi, Russia.

Big White is ground zero for the Canadian paralympic snowboard team and they’ve already spent sev-

eral weeks on the hill gearing up for an epic year in the sport. (This is the first paralympic games for snowboarding.)

In early December, they put in a heavy duty training session, working multiple days on snow and in the gym to make their dreams of taking an olympic podium come true.

And after taking a break for Christmas, they returned to the hill January 5 to prepare for a string of World Cup events, including one at Big White this month.

January 25 and 26 will see the Para Snowboard World Cup Boardercross hit the Telus Park and Salt will be among those competing and waiting to see if her name is called as one of Canada’s Paralympic team.

She is currently ranked ninth in the world. It is going to take a stupendous performance this month to ensure she stays in the running, but Salt is not one to shy away from a challenge and believes she's likely going.

“The accident was the best thing that ever happened to me,” she says as she starts spinning on a station-

Coach Candice Drouin's full-time job is dedicated to training the paralympic snowboarders.

Michelle Salt shreds some powder enroute to the Sochi games. ary bike, warming up so she can start lifting the weights she needs to build and rebuild her body.

Old Michelle, as she refers to her, was a fitness model by trade and that’s likely what saved her life. Her physical conditioning kept her heart strong enough to continue beating even as blood poured from her body.

She was pretty and pretty superficial, Salt explains. And that’s about as much as she cares to elaborate on her former self. A mild brain injury has left her with the ability to remember her life history and what she learned from it, but there’s no emotional connection to her former self—and she doesn’t seem to mind.

This new woman made the call from her hospital bed to the paralympic team to find out what it would take to put herself in the running. With an above-the-knee amputation, she wasn’t a likely candidate for snowboarding, but that obviously didn’t slow her down.

Her teammate, John Leslie, has an entirely different nature. Where Salt sidelines a full-time job doing business development for an oil and gas company, at 21 years old Leslie is slowly logging time and investment in a small-town Home Hardware store. His goal is to own it by the time he is 40 years old.

He wants a family and a quiet life with friends in Arnprior, Ontario.

Making it onto the paralympic team wasn’t his own vision, he says.

Leslie lost a portion of his leg at 11 years old to osteosarcoma, the same cancer as Terry Fox. His surgeons amputated a portion of his leg from just above his knee, what’s refered to as the distal femur, to the proximal tibia, just above his foot, then reattached his foot to his leg, placing it backward so it acts as a knee joint.

The surgery is called a Van Ness rotationplasty and it’s left him with a very functional leg and prosthetic.

“It’s the muscles that move my knee that now move my foot. So I would think, move my knee and feel it in my foot,” Leslie says, explaining how he relearned how to walk.

It sounds confusing, but after working through his therapy, he managed to join the ski and snowboard team in high school and start racking up wins.

When a new coach arrived in his senior year, she was so impressed with his athletic prowess she started grilling him on the route he would take next, never even realizing his one leg was a prosthetic. He explained he felt this was the end of the Continued on page 11

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In 2011, straight out of high school, he went to the Para Snowboard Cross World Cup and placed fifth, beating out every Canadian, including Tyler Mosher, a pioneer in the sport. He hasn’t looked back.

“I’m enjoying the whole experience, not only as an athlete, but as a person,” he says.

Ian Lockey is also soaking it in, though for different reasons. Now 40 years old, he stands among those who blazed the trail Leslie will follow and he is a daredevil through and through.

Unlike Leslie, he has already built his life around his passions: snowboarding and mountain biking.

Operating out of Red Mountain, the same hill legendary Olympian Nancy Greene came out of, Lockey runs a mountain bike shuttle service, Kootenay Mountain Shuttle, and touring operation, Kootenay Mountain Bike Coaching, and manages The Red Shutter Inn in Rossland.

His quest for an Olympic run has been long and expensive.

Originally from New Zealand, he started coming to B.C. to snowboard

Ian Lockey has been riding for decades and is considered a para snowboard veteran. in 1995. Three years later, he broke his back, leaving him 50 per cent paralyzed from the waist down.

In practical terms, it means he has no calf muscles, no hamstrings and reduced gluteus maximus functioning.

“Doctors told me I would never walk again,” he said. “I decided that was not acceptable.”

With a “massive dose of stubbornness” he managed to make it back out onto the mountain, but snowboarding was not a paralympic option.

The Para Snowboarding program began in Canada in 2006 with athlete development camps, Para-

Snowboard competitions and coach training. The first Para Snowboard World Cup was held in Whistler in 2008 and Sochi will be the first Paralympic event, though it is only for those with lower limb impairment.

Lockey pre-exited all of this. He went to the first major event, the U.S. Nationals in 2007, which had an adaptive class with five athletes and walked away with the competition.

From slope-style to boardercross, half-pipe to slalom and giant slalom, he won them all.

His motto is that lightening never strikes twice and he leaves everything he has on the hill. The words “are you breathing in and out” are

tattooed on his forearm, a reminder that fear is a flight or fight response he doesn’t need to bother with.

This year’s inaugural team of paralympians will be named at Big White this month.

All will have already climbed a mountain higher than any hill any olympian or paralympian will ever ride or ski down. As their coach sees it, that’s what makes this sport so fun. Every day that she comes to work she watches people adapt and learn to adapt to a set of circumstances completely their own.

The paralympics run March 7 to 16 in Sochi, Russia.

Veteran rider Tyler Mosher, John Leslie, Michelle Salt, and Ian Lockey all aim to become the first paralympic snowboard champions.

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Bombs away …the Central Okanagan Search and Rescue hits Gem Lake for training

by Jennifer Smith

Avalanche training is critical for the search and rescue teams who pull people from the depths of snow Avalanches are always in the news, but it takes a special person and special training to get out there and rescue those who fall victim.

On Saturday, January 11 some of the volunteers from the Central Okanagan Search and Rescue were on the hill to learn the techniques to do so.

“We need big piles of snow for avalanche training,” said Duane Tresnich, vice president of the COSAR. With 45 members, this yearround team of volunteers has to be as prepared to pull a hiker from a ravine in August as a snowmobiler from a frozen lake in December. And with the help of a little Big White terrain, the vol-

unteers got to brush up on what it takes to do the job—with an audience.

“We learn how to use a probe, how to use a transceivers, how to dig (people) out,” said Tresnich.

The Greystoke Recreation Area outside Vernon has seen an increase in avalanches of late due to clearcutting, so the training is all the more critical this year.

“Besides the snow coming down in the avalanche, secondary avalanches are always the big thing to look out for,” said Tresnich.

COSAR has access to a helicopter to drop explosives should it become necessary via Emergency Management B.C. With offices in Victoria and Kamloops, the team

can rally whatever equipment it needs with a phone call.

Training for two to two-anda-half hours each Thursday, the team logs a full-day session like the one held at Gem Lake, once every couple of weeks and then spends whatever time it takes to get a job done when they’re called into action.

Despite the hours, many of the volunteers have been working with COSR for over a decade.

Asked why they do it, Tresnich said it’s for the “love of the community and the fact that they want to come out and help.”

“We all want to kind of make a difference,” he said.

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Kelowna’s duelling piano players rock The Woods

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If you’re up on the hill to “forget about life for a while,” take a stroll over to The Woods so the piano man can help.

Alternately played by Vernon’s Steve Todd and Kelowna’s Dana Barnes, the live piano at this new tapas nook will certainly help soothe a few hard-earned sore muscles after an adventurous day on the hill.

“I’ve probably been playing for close to 40 years, but professionally since I was 16 or 17,” said Todd, who is one half of a duelling pianos act called Double Click that Barnes created.

The pair don’t generally duel at Big White as The Woods is an intimate venue designed for a quick lunch on the hill or a long involved evening of great food and wine. But even as a solo act, Todd likes to pull a few punches, occasionally adding

a guitar into the mix.

Born in Powell River, B.C. Todd has the kind of storied life one might expect Billy Joel or Elton John would enjoy picking over in a composition and he didn’t mind sharing the details with this magazine.

His family moved to Africa in 1967 so his father could teach. When they returned, it was back to life in small-town B.C.—the seeds that would eventually lead him to choose a home in Vernon, a town of just over 30,000 people.

While living in Terrace, at 10 years old, he developed a passion that would shape his life.

“I got into guitar and music, much to my parents chagrin. They wanted me to get a job,” he admitted.

Thankfully he did get jobs as well. Many of them in fact Like most musicians, he has dabbled in plenty

of career paths along the way, even swinging a hammer near those precious fingers; but he manages to tickle the ivories before an audience enough to maintain an impressive stance in a profession based on talent.

Dana Barnes also has a prolific music career in the valley and initiated the duelling pianos act that caught the attention of Trevour Quinn, owner of The Woods. Quinn set each musician up on a small stage and, while they’re usually on for roughly four hours, if the tip jar is flowing, they just keep going.

“I’m usually exhausted at night, but I still have a lot of adrenalin going when I perform, so that’s when I do a lot of my writing,” Todd noted.

When his gigs are through, he’ll usually set about work on his own material, most of which is never performed live, though he does like to

collaborate.

Todd has a smooth jazz CD coming out with Kelowna resident, Mike Ohman. Performing under the name Sharply Detached, they’re hoping the record, Rough Around The Edges, catches the imagination of local jazz buffs—and maybe CBC. In the meantime, you can always find him behind an Okanagan piano playing events in The Delta Grand ballrooms or at The Blue Gator, a blues joint in the heart of Kelowna.

“I do more the jazz, blues, rock and roll and old-school rhythm and blues. I like swing music, Louie Jordan—he was big in the 1940s—but I try to get some younger stuff in too like Wonderwall (by Oasis),” he said.

The Woods opened this season in the heart of the village and is also offering the hill’s first ski-thru breakfast sandwiches and coffees. Come by for dinner and a piano conversation.

Dana Barnes and Steve Todd have a duelling pianos act, but tickle a single set of keys at The Woods.

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Ski/Board-A-Thon fundraiser happens March 2 at Big White

Organizers of the second annual Ski/Board-A-Thon are hoping to raise more funds and attract more smiling faces just like these, who attended last year's inaugural event.

Continued from page 8 lecting pledges to do the activity they love best—downhill skiing, adaptive skiing, snowboarding, cross-country skiing, adaptive snowboarding or snowshoeing.

Last year was the first year of People-in-Motion’s annual Ski/Board-A-Thon. It was held in conjunction with the Kids in Motion Family Fun Day, an invitational event designed to support the many sports programs it runs, its transportation component and raise awareness of the organization and its mandate.

With Big White offering 25 per cent off the lift ticket, the first event managed to pull in $7158 and People in Motion would love to double that amount this year.

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It was a busy December at Big White as Santa dusted the hill with a little of his magic.

Every year the Big White community puts an extra special effort into making the holidays something to remember, but for

December 2013, the staff also made memories of the community centre stage by opening the month with the new Sweater Ball.

This inaugural event not only raised funds for the Kelowna General Hospital Foundation, but helped the resort mark its 50th birthday with a walk down memory lane. Moving forward, the event will be another touch of elegance to a festive month where the Big Reds wine event already has the (wine) critics blushing with pleasure.

Red was the colour of the month as some 50 skiers clad in Santa outfits lined up to try and secure one of the 30 free tickets available to those who suited up on Deember 21. Dr. Seuss’s Grinch would have been seeing red if he had spotted all the fun on Christmas Eve as the Big White ski patrollers broke out their torches and danced down the hill, lights bobbing, to the sea of on‌Continued on page 20

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Red banner month for Big White… from page 19

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Santa himself stopped in for breakfast to take a few last minute requests and found a little nostalgia on the minds of the kids.

“I’ve had many requests for Furbies and even a Luke Skywalker costume,” he said.

The pre-Christmas warm up had a few treats for the hill in store that had nothing to do with the season. The Loose Moose Emporium opened in the heart of the village offering parents a

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Just as it was last year, New Years Eve was a sell out and Big White appears to be well on its way to achieving it’s own “be an awesome mountain” resolution.

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This is going to be a very busy season on Big White with more than a few highlights in January and early February.

Mid-month the BC Alpine West Coast Ski Cross will see skiers battling it out in a head-to-head competition just a week after the popular Telus Park Rail Jam presents some of the best local ski and board talent in the Telus Park (Jan. 11).

World Snow Day on Jan. 19 should prove the perfect lead up to the Para Snowboard World Cup Boardercross Jan. 21 to 26 and the announcement of the first Paralympic Snowboard team.

World Snow Day is celebrated globally and serves as a fun day of activities, an opportunity to elevate the profile of snow sports and a chance to reflect on how environmental changes are affecting the snowy environment we love.

And of course, no Big White winter would be complete without a massive Australia Day celebration.

If you haven’t heard the “Aussie, Aussie, Aussie” cry you’ll want to get out and take in an icy cricket match or the sight of a few bare fleet meandering through the snow in flip-flops.

Green, gold and tasting of Vegemite, Sunday, Jan. 26 will hold the usual celebrations for our friends from down under who come all the way across the Pacific to help make Big White what it is each season.

The Absolut World Bartending Competition on Jan. 31 and Feb. 1 will see some of the best mixologists competing for the crown and the next day, Feb. 2, Master’s Ski Week begins for the over 50 crowd.

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Wearing a protective helmet when practising snow sports is a wise choice since it reduces the risk and seriousness of certain head injuries. But beware, you still have to be careful…

by Robert Williams, MD A helmet is not armour and should not encourage you to take more risks. The best protection against accidents is knowing and respecting your limits and the Mountain Code of Conduct and Alpine Responsibility Code. The golden rule is control!

Ski and snowboard as if you weren’t wearing a helmet.

All skiers and boarders should ride responsibly and in control at all times. Helmets may help prevent head injuries in the event of certain

types of accidents, but are of little help in high-speed, head-on injuries and offer no protection against neck and other types of injuries.

Use a helmet designed specifically for skiing or snowboarding.

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Take time to ensure the helmet fits properly.

Snow sports helmets are not something to grow into. The helmet must fit properly to function safely.

In addition, a helmet that is an uncomfortable fit will end up not being worn. Consult a knowledgeable salesperson at a reputable store regarding appropriate fit for a helmet and to get any questions answered.

Buy a helmet that meets industry standards.

There are various helmet standards in place including CEN (the least rigorous standard), ASTM, Snell and RS-98 (far and away the most rigorous and hard to meet standard for certification). Be sure to review product literature for the helmet to find out which standard the helmet meets.

Adults should serve as role models for children.

Children pick up on hypocrisy at light speed. If parents expect their children to ski and ride responsibly and wear helmets, then they should do so as well. Any adult who wears a helmet will help encourage children to follow suit.

Establish a firm rule regarding helmet use and skiing/snowboarding.

If a parent decides that helmets should be worn, but the child is re-

sistant, remember that it’s O.K. to say no. Establish a rule, such as “No helmet equals no skiing or snowboarding.” Most ski teams and academies have rules requiring helmet use in their athletes and the athletes accept these rules as a matter of course.

Your child will adhere to this rule as well if it is presented in a polite, yet non-compromising manner.

Bring your child’s or your goggles in when you buy your helmet.

Different goggles and helmets work together differently. A well-fitting system will provide great protection for the face and forehead from cold wind and snow and still allow adequate ventilation for the goggles.

Keep goggles and helmets attached together.

It is much harder to lose both a helmet and a set of goggles. Some parents may find they recoup the cost of the helmet by not having to replace lost goggles (and hats!) as often.

Provide incentives for good helmet behavior.

A number of professional skiers and snowboarders wear helmets and can serve as great role models. Help reinforce helmet wearing with such incentives as posters of winter sport celebrities who wear helmets, or gear worn by these celebrities.

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