By John Colebourn, Vancouver Province
BC Ferries has banned a cheeky new book — with an equally cheeky cover — written by Whistler author Stephen Vogler.
Vogler, 45, who grew up in Whistler, has written an entertaining recollection of the wild, weird and wacky things that have happened in the last 30 years in the famous ski town that in a few months will host the Winter Olympics. And while Vogler takes a lively look at the town's party-hard cast of characters in the just-released book, he thinks the cover is what caused the biggest stir with BC Ferries. On the cover of Vogler's Only in Whistler — Tales of a Mountain Town, there's a picture of four naked women on skis ready to load onto a blue chairlift. The photo was taken by Squamish-based photographer Gary McFarlane in the early 1990s.
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From Amazon.com: ($24.95) "It was no accident that the first Whistlerite to win an Olympic gold medal also tested positive for cannabis, and successfully defended himself by arguing that just breathing the air in his hometown was enough to put him over the limit. If anybody doubts that story, they won't after reading Only in Whistler: Tales of a Mountain Town."
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