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BACKCOUNTRY SNOW caves and tents at Lone Duck and Cambie Creek or parking lot Blue Bird Wanderlodges (below) ��� just a few of the camping options. (far left) tele-skis make an impromptu picnic table overlooking freeform ���snow sculptures���; (left) Manning���s Bear Trap Telemark Festival (early March). for exaggerating, but it didn���t take long to confirm that everything my buddy had bragged about was true, and then some. Two weekends later, I was making the twohours-and-change drive from Vancouver with Lisa and our nine-year-old James in a snowstorm that had me giggling at the wheel, albeit one I occasionally gripped in irritation whenever some maniac in a pickup rushed past. By eight the next morning, we were standing at the top of Orange Chair before a panoramic view that includes a slew of peaks in both Canada and the U.S., surveying our demesne for the day with big grins slapped across our faces. It wasn���t just the snow, either ��� 57 square hectares worth. It was the whole look and feel of the place: a kind of retro groove that almost made me feel as if it were the ���60s, that we���d stepped off the chairlift and back in time. 26 W E S T W O R L D p24-27-34_Daytrip.indd 26 >> Alan Majchrowicz, (Loon Lagoon) Rob Sieniuc/BroadwayArchitects, (RV) Ian MacNeill NOW, SKIERS ARE AS NOTORIOUS as fisher folk WINTER 2012 12-10-26 7:33 AM