Bottoms up: There are volunteers.

Discusses Whistler in January, 90 minutes north of Vancouver, where condos march up the benchlands year by year and at $44-a-day for a lift ticket, the skiers just keep coming. Signs on the ski runs on Blackcomb are in English and Japanese, the Japanese travel in packs down the slopes, costumes in wild psychedelic colors, sushi bars are filled and Japanese papers share shelf space with the `New York Times.' Background of Whistler Village; The Rendezvous Restaurant; More.