Under the headline, “Fernie: The little town that could,” Fernie received a nice front page coverage on the front of the Globe and Mail’s travel section last weekend.

The article was written by the Globe’s Tom Maloney and starts with this quote:

“A decade ago, an acquaintance described Fernie as the next Telluride.  It seemed a brazen prediction at the time; not so much today.”

Fernie has an, “economy (that) has diversified from mining to tourism and recreation, driven by the skiing and spiced now by an emerging entertainment and shopping scene.”

The article continues, “Aside from Albertans, the resort attracts skiers and riders from Britian and the American Midwest, and visionaries – led by eightysomething Heiko Socher (former owner of the resort)….Get this, though, Socher has proposed a development, Heaven’s Gate, to transport skiers from a downtown gondola to Coal Ridge south of town, as you might experience in Italy or France.”