24 ~ North Shore News - Friday, March 3, 2000 Michael Becker News Editor mbecker@nsnews.comt CANADA’S female athlete of the century is approachable, friendiy and down to earth. Spend a day on the slopes with her and it’s fast evident that it’s in Nancy Greene’s nature to be so. The traits serve her well as director of skiing for Sun Peaks Resort near Kamloops. Canadian Press & Broadcast News bestowed the ttle of ath- lete of che century upon Greene for her dominance of the world- ski circuit during the late 1960s and because she finished her racing career with two overall World Cup victories and Olympic gold and silver in the 1968 Grenoble Olympics. Thirty years later she skis daily at Sun Peaks. She lives there with husband Al Raine in the hotel they built together on the mountain — Nancy Greene’s Cahilty Lodge. Greene and Raine were early players in the development of Whisder Resort and remained at the resort to 1994. Greene has left her mark on the North Shore as well. Young skiers participate in the Nancy Greene Ski League national ski racing program and in North Vancouver, Nancy Greene Way leads skiers, snowboarders and tourists up to Grouse Mountain. Greene and Raine shifted their focus to Sun Peaks in 1993. _ Says Greene, “We were looking around and heard that Sun Peaks had been bought and that the new owner was doing a new master plan. It looked like they were doing a great job. My husband Al ad done a master plan for this area 15 years carlier for a previous owner and we started getting very excited about the potential. We thought it would be a good spot to invest. “When they realized we were serious about investing over here, they turned around and said they’d like us to move over here and be part of the resort and offered me a position as direc- tor of skiing,” says Greene. She had skied Sun Peaks once in 1964 as a Canadian cham- _ pionships competitor when the mountain was still known as Tod Mountain. She skied the mountain for the first time again 30 years later. “I absolutely fell in love with this mountain. It has such great cruising terrain. That’s the kind of skiing that I like to do. My role with the mountain now is to be available for the public, ski with the public and really bea part of the hospitality end of it,” Greene says. It’s easy to feel the sense of open space and elbow room :. while skiing the mountain. ’ ” Says Greene, “Sun Peaks is really in an enviable position in that we have double the industry standard of acres per skier or snowboarder. So we don’t have cungested slopes.” Sun Peaks Resort Corporation is owned by Nippon Cable 7 Co, in Japan. Nippon abe owns the Harvest Golf Club in _ Kelowna as well as 23% of Whistler and Blackcomb. Nippon Cable manufactures lifts for the Asian market and owns several .: Small ski areas in Japan. ~. \While more development is planned for the resort, Greene “+ does fot see Sun Peaks becoming another Whistler in terms of its scale. “We're second only to Whistler in terms of potential expan- Leave a message From Page 22 SPORTING LIFE M Photo Sun Peaks Resort OLYMPIAN Nancy Greene (center) skis most days at Sun Peaks Resort near Kamloops. tf you visit, chances are very good that you'll be abie to ski with her tao. sion space on the mountain. We'll keep cutting more traits as it gets busier, but Whistler is serving three markets — the local Vancouver market, the regional weekend market and ‘also the destination market. There'll never be another place like Whistler because it’s close te a major city. “But if you look at ski tourism in B.C. we don’r need anoth- er Whistler. It’s like the engine driving the train. What we need is more cars on the train. When people come and enjoy Whistler and they get a great feeling or B.C. skiing and then they go other places,” she says. Sun Peaks Resort and the Sun Peaks Alpine Racers host top Canadian skiing competitors March 24 to April 2. The event is the final event of the GMC Pontiac Cup and is sanctioned as Canada’s National Championships. Sun Peaks will host the Canada Cup Mountain Biking Finals Aug. 19 and 20. The resort has developed a championship level network of trails for mountain bikers. There is also mountain bike. chairlift access to the top of the mountain. Some of the statistics that make Sun Peaks a desirable winter sports destination: — 4% hours from Vancouver; -~ an annual snowfall of 559 cm (220 inches); — skiable vertical, 881 m (2,891 it.); — village base, 1255 m (4,117 ft.); — season, Nov. 20 to mid-April; — average sunshine hours, 2,000 per year; — total lift capacity, 8,030 people per hour; — two high-speed quads; — one 2,899 m (9,511 ft.) quad; — one tiple chair; — one T-bar; — one platter; — terrain — 54% intermediate, 24% novice, 22% expert; Strength without stress CTS symptoms,” says Marian S$. Garinkel, Ed.D, the study’s tead author. “North Shore Rescue’s Outdoor Survival Tip: Be Prepared and Leave a Message With Someone ‘When skiing or snowboard- ~ ing, stick to a return time, and leave enough time to get home without causing people to worry about you. Take the proper equipment and have a trip plan — even if you will be skiing or snowboarding for only a few hours on a local mountain. A note, left with a responsi- ble person, explains your desti- . nation, the route (or runs) you are taking, who is with you, and your return time. If you do not return as planned, this person ".| an give the accurate informa- tion to the police. . = www.nerthshorerescue.com fer more information. injuries, speed up injury recovery and enhance athletic performance. Backache, neck pain and even menstrual cramps have been relieved with yoga. Asthmatics may benefit by several torso stretches, as stretching the chest and abdominal area lead to opening the lungs and diaphragm, which tend to be tight in asthmatic patients. Yoga builds strength without stress on the joints, and increases flexibility. It helps people regain a feeling of control over their well being at times when they may feel helpless. A recent University of Pennsylvania study found that yoga might help relieve pain associated with carpal tunnel syn- drome. 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