A Window into the Wild: Cape Scott by SUP
One of the best things of working with Mountain Life is the built-in excuse, the necessity even, to get out and find new adventures. For our Summer 2015 “Wheels &…
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Todd Lawson
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We Are More — by Slam Poet Shane Koyczan
We Are More by Shane Koyczan When defining Canada, you might list some statistics You might mention our tallest building, or biggest lake You might shake a tree…
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Screw Wearable Technology. Buy Wearable Art.
Some things just need to be classic and timeless. Take the humble T-shirt for example. You can buy one with a fascinating array of ultra-high-tech fabrics and SPF protection, even…
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Mountain Life launches 2014-15 ANNUAL
When we set out to conquer the world, a key piece of the puzzle was to launch a top-shelf national publication for our loyal, über-supportive readers to dive into. Our…
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Skinnydipping in Pow — The Naked Ski Segment We All Need to See
This is the kind of clip that social media was made for — two minutes of really fresh mountain mastery in the buff — basically guaranteed to put a smile…
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Launching Bombs with ‘Bushrat’
Launching Bombs with ‘Bushrat’— 1960s style Avalanche Control by Jeff Slack, Whistler Museum & Archives There are few truer mountain-town experiences than being awoken in the early dawn by the…
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Fighting the Good Fight — Mountain Life Annual Subscriptions Now Available
It always feels good to support the underdog, right? Here at Mountain Life we’re just a small crew that had a big idea. “Let’s create a beautiful magazine with minimal…
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OFFLINE: Tripping the Light Fantastic Kayak
Photo by Todd Lawson Painting with light is one of the funnest aspects of photography. The experimental process is always a blast and, kind of like shooting slide film, you…
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10 Miles from Town, 10,000 Miles from Civilization — The Island Lake Lodge Vibe
by Bruce Kirkby. BRUCE KIRKBY PHOTO. All photos taken with iPhone. “10 miles from town, 10,000 miles from civilization.” At least according to Island Lake Lodge advertising. And I must…
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Friday Flick: Duct Tape Surfing
Meet an extraordinary woman with a desire to “concentrate on the positive in life”, and a young son who helps her feel the grace of a rolling wave. Duct Tape…
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Introducing Canada’s Newest Outside Voice
by Leslie Anthony It’s not every day that you get to introduce something new under the sun. In today’s publishing landscape, almost never. We hope the Mountain Life Annual model…
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The Illusionist
Jordan Manley’s Photographic Magic—North Vancouver-based and Whistler Blackcomb-inspired, Jordan Manley is a photographic phenom who took the ski and mountain bike worlds by storm before he was even 25 years…
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Point of No Return
As we were nearing the end of planning for this issue, it turned out we needed an eastern Canadian story and we needed a climbing story. Who knew we could…
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A Failure of Reason
In British Columbia, opposition to Enbridge’s proposed Northern Gateway Pipeline is fierce and runs deeper than any politician wants to admit. With people willing to put their lives on the…
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The Opening Line-Up
OFFLINE Climbing on ice is pretty rad—it’s the one thing humans do that no other animal can. And that makes this a very rad photo indeed. ELLIPSE This is a…
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Book Review: Let My People Go Surfing
This isn’t a new book, but it’s a great book with a timeless quality that should be read by any entrepeneur, or any business person for that matter — from…
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MULTIPLICITY Wows the Crowd
They came even though they weren’t quite sure what the night was going to be about. After all, it’s hard to explain in a couple of sentences how 8 different…
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