WHISTLER, B.C. - The large wooden doors of the Squamish Lil’wat Cultural Centre open slightly and a small boy pokes his head through the narrow crack.

REVELSTOKE, B.C. - Snow in my mouth, flakes up my nostrils, crystals plastered to my goggles … I must have missed the snorkel advisory on the equipment list.

VANCOUVER - Doing the Grouse Grind, a 2.8-kilometre climb up Grouse Mountain, is like a rite of passage. It says you’re tough enough to tackle one of the most challenging fitness feats in a city that lives and breathes fitness.

BANFF, ALBERTA - Jack Nicklaus and Arnold Palmer were once asked to design a golf course combining the best 18 holes they had played around the world.

VANCOUVER - The gentle swaying of the rail car that lulled us to sleep just a few hours earlier had stopped. The clickety-clack sound steel wheels make when they meet steel rails had been replaced by an eerie silence.

WHISTLER, B.C. - It’s officially known as the Sea to Sky Highway, but many people call Highway 99 “The Great One” – and it has nothing to do with Wayne Gretzky, who wore the No. 99 during his Hall of Fame hockey career.

The sun tanned locals in this beautiful British Columbia outpost offer us a complicated explanation about why they call this area of the province the “Sunshine Coast.”