The latest issue of ML Blue Mountains (Ontario) is out now!
From One Mountain Lifer to the Community
Welcome to the overhauled and reissued Mountain Life! It’s got all the glorious skiing and outdoor adventure content you’ve always loved from us, but now has some extra flavours: more culture, more local heroes, more community builders, more must-know environmental news and more real life—mountain life, Ontario style.
We’ve also expanded our Mountain Homes section—because the base camp for our adventures is home—and created a new section, Trippin’, containing near and far destinations worth telling you about. We’re celebrating and promoting local events. A vibrant community has an active night-life—from live music, to comedy, to grand openings, to charity dinners and galas. If you have an event you’d like us to cover, send me an email at [email protected].
Our focus is on Southern Georgian Bay’s mountain lifers—we ski, we mountain bike, we buy season passes at Blue, we’re members of private clubs, we purchase real estate, we love nature, we’re heavily invested in our region and we spend thousands every year on recreation because that’s congruent with our values. We also work and live here, raise our families—driving our kids to music lessons and rugby practices—and get out on the water or in the forest to recharge.
I’m very happy to be back in publishing, after a brief hiatus. I’ve now worked as publisher of more than half of Southern Georgian Bay’s top local magazines, and I’m happy to say I’m finally at the place I belong. Mountain lifers are my people.
The magazine industry, especially locally, is not only alive and well, but thriving. When was the last time you’ve actually really enjoyed consuming content on your phone or iPad? I get social media fatigue, personally. Anytime I open an app, or load a website for an online publication, I’m bombarded with pop-up ads I can’t get rid of fast enough.
Magazines are calming—a break from the digital noise bombardment—and places of carefully designed and curated content. You consume at your own pace. In Mountain Life’s case, this content is brought to you by industry leaders, journalists and Canada’s top photographers, all with incredible talent for capturing the spirit and essence of our outdoor lifestyle here in Ontario’s adventure capital. We take this responsibility to heart.
Magazines are calming—a break from the digital noise bombardment—and places of carefully designed and curated content.
There’s so much great content to consume in this edition.
I hope you enjoy it, and I hope you stick with us for the years ahead—because we’re going to continue to show you how alive and well the magazine industry really is up here, and we’re going places. –Dave Loopstra
Check out the full issue here. Pick up a print issue at the usual rad spots throughout the Blue Mountains region.
