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September 2019 - Women's Work

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62 BCBUSINESS SEPTEMBER 2019 visits, he could wakeboard on one ski. "Boy, that's like going from a propel- ler plane to a jet plane," he says. "The differences are significant. It's the speed, the manoeuvrabil- ity and also the inputs. For a 50-year-old guy to put his body through that felt really good, but it felt a little dangerous, too." In terms of difficulty, there are three levels of single ski, Bussey explains. The widest, known as the grandpa, is the easiest to get up on. An intermediate size becomes a bit more chal- lenging but remains quite stable. The trickiest ski is the slalom, "where it's difficult to get out of the water, but once you do it's like a supercharged event if you want to take those kind of turns," Bussey says. Slalom water-skiing engages every muscle, he notes, and is the most intense activity he can imagine. After his most recent trip to Mexico in the spring, "once again I came back hobbling, because doing six runs over six days is as much as my body can tolerate." But for the first time, Bussey tried Club Med's slalom course, hitting three buoys in a row. "I never thought I'd be able to do that," he exclaims. "There's six per run, so I was very pleased with myself." In B.C., Bussey skis near Keats Island, between Bowen Island and Gibsons on the Sunshine Coast, from June through September—on Howe Sound the water gets very warm dur- ing those three or four months. He has built a beach house on Keats for himself and his family, and he also uses it for business meetings. Part of the attraction of Keats was its acces- sibility to calm water. "In the ocean, when you have any kind of wave action at all, it takes out the ability to water-ski in a fun way," Bussey points out. Fortunately, between nearby Gambier Island and the mainland, there's a fairly narrow channel of water with little boat traf- fic and few waves created by wind most of the time. "You get this incredible flat water in there," he says. Bussey uses a 19-foot outboard with 150 horsepower—"it is not one of these super-duper high- speed water-ski [boats], because I'm really too old to be getting into competi- tive skiing at this point," he admits. It's a 10-year- old's game." His focus is getting up, and keeping his form and posture. "I'm working toward it ever so slowly because it's a very humbling sport." • ( quality time ) A Walk in the Dark If you go down in the woods at night, you're sure of a big surprise– especially if it's for Whistler's Vallea Lumina. The multimedia expe- rience by Montreal-based Moment Factory and Joey Houssian's The Adventure Group involves following clues left along a 1.5-kilometre lantern-lined forest trail to find a hidden valley. Expect to see illuminated salmon, twinkling stardust, talking trees and more. Nightly until October 13; winter walks start November 28; $39.99, youth $34.99, children five and under free Band Together On another sylvan note, this month Saskatoon country band the Deep Dark Woods performs at Vancouver's Westward Music Festival, along with Black Mountain, Jon Bryant, MorMor, Mt. Joy and Yukon Blonde, among others. The multi-genre, multi-venue event is organized by the city's MRG Concerts division of MRG Group, which produces more than 800 shows a year and recently joined forces with Atomique Productions. The latter is an independent concert promotion and production company in Victoria, where it holds the popular Rifflandia Festival, also usually in September but in hiatus until 2020. September 12-15 • FROM TOP: VALLEA LUMINA; BRANDON ARTIS A F T E R HO U R S JOIN US AT THE 19 TH ANNUAL 65 ROSES GALA In Support of Event Branding and Design by There is no cure, but there is hope Please register online for our silent auction at 65RosesGala.com. Bidding opens on October 19. Featuıng live and silent auctions, live entertainment and more! A magical night of dining, dancing, and entertainment at our Paısian inspired 19th annual chaıty gala, raising funds for life-saving Cystic Fibrosis research, patient care and advocacy. RECEPTION 5:00 PM DINNER 6:00 PM SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 2 ND 2019 FAIRMONT WATERFRONT HOTEL To purchase tickets please visit 65RosesGala.com or call 604-436-1158. Ticket price is $300 per person, $3,000 for a table of ten. Tax receipts will be issued for the charitable portion of each ticket.

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