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INTERVIEW WORDS TO CHEW ON SANTA'S TASTY SECRET HOMEMADE GOODIES make great holiday gifts. But for rolling-pin pinheads who can't raise dough there's a delicious way to cheat: East Vancouver's Baker's Market, the only exclusive gathering of professional, amateur, student and mommy flour-tossers in B.C. THE GIFT: A DIY-wrapped mix of J'adore les Macarons' vanilla-bean and white-chocolate confections; Pie Hole's mincemeat and cranberry-apple creations; French Made Baking's crunchy gingerbread (aka Belgian speculoos). December 3, 10. bakersmarket.com ON THE ROAD THE EVOLUTION OF COOL COOL O COME WINTER, the place for two-wheel dreaming is Trev Deeley Motorcycles, where curators do a great job of presenting the motorbike's evolution: from its humble 1885 beginnings as a wood-frame, single-cylinder Daimler Reitwagen with training wheels (above) to today's sprint-racers-cum-land rockets. And the backdrop? Canada's largest private collection of chrome-plated hogs. deeleymotorcycleexhibition.ca THE GIFT Trev's 2011 Dyna Street Bob, with psychobilly paint job and header-wrapped pipes — a throwback to the post-World War II era. $14,000 Explore Canada's largest privately owned motorcycle collection: www.bcaa.com/trev Vertical Voyeur OUTDOOR ACTION sports photography is as old as the camera itself, but 16 years ago the art form underwent a huge renaissance with the arrival of the X Games, celebrity daredevils and the mainstream acceptance of adrenalin sports such as snowboarding and mountain biking. Blake Jorgenson was a teenaged ski bum from Toronto who had just arrived in Whistler T as the new scene exploded. But he started taking pictures of his buddies showboating on marked runs, and his hobby quickly grew ma into a fulltime career as a shooter for Powder magazine and heavy-hitting ad clients such magaz as Rossignol, Salomon and Nike. Jorgenson Ros has won the Pro Photographer Showh ha down at Whistler's World Ski and Snowboard Festival twice and is the only slope shutterbug in North America to own a gallery dedicated solely to mountain-sport imagery. (The Blake Jorgenson Gallery in the Whistler Westin Jo Resort.) We caught up with the 36-year-old Reso as he prepared to unveil his latest collection p of cool pics. WW What is your bestselling image? BJ: Boarder Eric Jackson airborne from a huge jump that was built on top of Whistler a few years ago. A helicopter was filming him, and it looks like he is soaring toward the blades of the chopper. They don't build jumps like that anymore, with such vertical posture that the athletes drop like a rock from the sky. But on that day, Eric was launched 50 feet above the deck and I used a 500-mL lens to exaggerate his closeness to the helicopter, though my recollection is that they really were in pretty tight proximity. (cheesecake) Destination Nanaimo, (Reitwagen motorcycle) Trev Deeley, Blake Jorgenson p14-17_FreshTrax.indd 15 WW How dangerous is your work? BJ: Well, luckily I've never had any major avalanche problems. The riskiest part of the job is probably the same as it is for most people who drive or fly in mountainous regions. As soon as I clip into my skis and get on the slopes, I actually feel the safest. WW You're comfortable in the air? BJ: The pilots are great. But that said, there have been dicey moments. Once, on an expedition out at Mount Monarch, near Bella Coola, we flew in a ski plane to camp at 11,000 feet. This glacier was small and pointed like a hump, so the bush plane had to come in for an uphill landing, shut off the engine and coast to a stop on top of the ice field. We land, the pilot shuts off the engine, but I guess our plane's runners were too hot and we started sliding like a big toboggan down the other side of the glacier. As we picked up speed, there were huge glacial seracs all over the place that we were headed toward then, at the last second, the engine fired up and the plane cleared those gigantic holes we would have slid into. WW Any photos? BJ: Hard to shoot when you're holding your breath. THE GIFT Jorgenson leads Whistler Outdoor Photography workshops in the spring and fall — a rare chance for aspiring powparazzi to shoot pro athletes on staged setups, with an accomplished artist on hand. From $1,200, for four days: blakejorgenson.com WESTWORLD >> W I N T E R 2 0 1 1 15 10/25/11 11:46:54 AM

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