Forget skiing and snowboarding. With B.C. now achieving cult status among fat-tire tricksters, a growing number of resort communities have realized that the next big tourist cash cow is in mountain biking.
I ponder the steep, twisting descent of Wakefield Trail that lies ahead. It’s as though somebody had demarcated the trail by simply painting an arbitrary line on a map irrespective of the mountain’s topography. Just the thought of falling off the edge of this skinny strip of dirt is enough to make the palms clammy.
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B.C.'s tourism industry cheered in 2004 with the announcement that Canada would be gaining Approved Destination Status from China within the next year. Thousands of Chinese tourists would flock to our shores, they said. We'd be drowning in visitors, they said. One small question: where the hell are they?
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