Kimberley's own Josh Dueck has racked up a pretty impressive array of titles in the past few years - Paralympian silver medalist, world champion, X-Games champion.

In the post-Olympic year he continued to post impressive results, though he himself admitted an "Olympic hangover". He mulled over the thought of not committing to another Olympic cycle leading up to Sochi, Russia in 2014.

However, he is committed to the upcoming ski season with the Canadian Para-Alpine team and says he is even looking beyond that to 2015. The reason? The World Cup finals will be held in Canada that year, and though no location has been announced, they will likely be in Western Canada, where there is a history of hosting World Cup events.

"I'll lobby for Kimberley," he said with a laugh, in a phone interview with the Bulletin on Wednesday.

Dueck just turned 30, and while that may seem an advanced age for a high level ski racer, he says the Para-Alpine world is slightly different.

He says if and when he retires it quite likely won't be because his body lets him down, but because he wants to change his lifestyle.

"The guy that beats me most often - he's the guy who took gold when I won silver at the Canadian Championships in Kimberley last winter - is turning 50 this year."

"Sitskiing is funny. You don't use your legs, so you have the ability to have a long career. A lot of the guys I really look up to are a lot older than me.

"It's also supply and demand. There's not that great a population of people with disabilities or ones with an interest in ski racing. The ones that are really good are on the Paralympic circuit."

Dueck has spent the summer going back and forth to dry land training in Whistler. He's off to Chile in two weeks for three weeks of on snow training with the Canadian team. There's a team trip to Switzerland later in the fall and then racing begins in December with NorAm races in Colorado.

Dueck will be doing more NorAm than World Cup races this year, just trying to avoid the grind of travel.

"It's tough being away from home so much," he said. "I'm going to focus a lot on training this year. I'll be in Kimberley training with Lasse Ericson, who I consider one of the best. The only World Cup I'll do will be the one at Panorama, and I'll also do the X-Games.

"I believe a schedule like that will bring back a little fun. I'll have a chance to do a little more freeskiing, maybe more filming. And I think I can really build on a good training year."

"The dryland camps have been amazing in terms of the training and the team-building," said coach Matt Hallat. "We're getting closer and closer as a team."

"It's exciting for us to be racing back in Canada," said Team athletic director Brianne Law of the March World Cup at Panorama. "Our team had a lot of success on home soil at the 2010 Paralympics in Whistler and we're hoping to carry that momentum through at Panorama."