The Whistler Answer The Whistler Answer The Whistler Answer was a periodical published in Whistler, British Columbia, Canada, from 1977 until the mid-1990s. The first edition of "The Whistler Answer" was published on April 1, 1977. The production run was 1,000 copies, 12 pages on newsprint in tabloid format. All twelve pages were hand lettered by the editorial staff. This first edition listed The first edition had a cover price of 25 cents but was primarily supported through advertising revenues. The content of "The Whistler Answer" was mostly satire. The cover of the first edition had a photograph by George Benjamin of three
Whistler Blackcomb and under-utilized, because skiers who traveled those slopes frequently had to go all the way to the bottom of the mountain, which was over-skied and icy. This competition had driven development of the two mountains at a rate no other resorts could come close to matching. In 1992, "Snow Country Magazine" voted Whistler the Number One Ski Resort in North America. Similar No. 1 rankings quickly followed from other major magazines, and between 1992 and 2000 it won No. 1 ranking from one of the major magazines every year. In 1996, it became the only resort in history to be