Heli-skiing is easier to tick off your bucket list than many realize

Every Wednesday our friends at The Georgia Straight provide us with a preview of what you’ll see on - and in – their paper the next day.

Every Wednesday our friends at The Georgia Straight provide us with a preview of what you’ll see on - and in – their paper the next day. They are the source for lifestyle and entertainment in our city and along with their robust online presence they've always released a print edition, distributed everywhere each Thursday.

This issue is their 2,446th and on the cover this week is Winter Adventure. Stories about the amazing health benefits of cross-country skiing, how technology boosts outdoor safety, plus heli-skiing, outdoor apparel, and what’s new at B.C.’s mountain resorts.

HERE is their Winter Adventure portal.

This week’s issue also includes the Straight Slate for November 15 elections. The Georgia Straight’s picks for who deserves your vote. HERE.

And here are links to stories highlighted on the cover:

- Vancouver's cross-country skiers get back to nature coverstory by Gail Johnson

- Demetri Martin strives for balanced zaniness by Guy Macpherson

- North Shore, New Westminster school lands at issue in municipal election by Carlito Pablo

- Neil Young talks about tarsands, Constitution, and First Nations before Blue Dot show in Vancouver by Charlie Smith