JOEY WILLIAMS
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AN INTERVENTION WITH JOEY WILLIAMS
wordsby ryan mcguigan photosby david christian
We had a long overdue intervention with Whistler’s Joey Williams who was sat down by his closest friends and confronted about his problem of thinking that he’s not good enough to be sponsored. He actually refused to be interviewed and was against the idea of even having photos published! Luckily for us Ryan McGuigan was generous enough to share a true story that begins with a mistake: Cheakmus canyon. Joey had been talking about it for some time. A year ago on this day, a train derailed, emptying nine empty lumber flat cars and one tank car of sodium hydroxide into the river, resulting in the murder of five hundred thousand little fishies. Big ones too..
