To celebrate our 15th year of sharing the stoke out here in the Coast Mountains, this issue looks back at how life has changed around here over the past decade…
We are honoured and inspired (and straight-up stoked!) to bring the world-famous Rocky Mountains into the Mountain Life family. From Jasper to Fernie, Calgary to Revy we vow to scour…
Fendre les flots Les jours s’enchaînent, les mois défilent, les saisons s’écoulent comme un puissant cours d’eau qu’aucun barrage pandémique ni écluse virale ne puisse dévier du formidable cours de…
Editor’s Message: FEET FIRST Let’s not kid ourselves, pretty much every issue of Mountain Life is “The Backyard Issue,” that’s kind of the point of it all—we love the Coast…
For the past 18+ years, Mountain Life’s publications and digital presence have proven it’s possible to build something a community can really connect to. With the launch of ML in…
Let’s be clear about one thing: A shitstorm is still a storm. And amidst the continuing uncertainty, stress, and general unpleasantness of the COVID-19 pandemic, our crew out west in…
Vie en Montagne, Mountain Life’s Quebec edition, releases its third issue: Winter/Spring 2021. Il y a un an, la première publication de Vie en montagne vous emmenait skier…
words:: Jon Turk The beachcomber bent down to pick up a nondescript piece of driftwood and broke into a broad smile when she found a bent, rusty nail embedded in…
The February 2019 “Time Travel” issue of Mountain Life: Coast Mountains features Brett Tippie on the cover, carving a turn from a Kamloops gravel pit in 1991 through to the…
words :: Ben Osborne “I don’t like the term ‘ski bum’ – it implies you are lazy.” Chris Winter is an under-the-radar Whistler legend. He’s a forward- thinking philanthropist and…
In February 2017, I attended the Home Horizon “Coldest Night of the Year” in Collingwood, Ontario. It was an event to raise funds for homeless women, children and youth. Leaders…
Over at Mountain Life: Coast Mountains we haven’t run a snowboard cover since 2012. And it’s also been a couple years since a woman has graced the cover so the…
It was Bob Dylan who said, “Time passes slowly up here in the mountains.” And that’s true when you’re out there on the ridge line watching the sun sink…
World champion freestyle skier Mike Nemesvary grew up in a water-skiing family. He was an active kid, the middle child of three, who grew up in the suburbs of Ottawa.…
“A trail sleekens to its end,” American author Robert Moor writes in On Trails, an insightful meditation on the oft-overlooked routes beneath our feet. “An explorer finds a worthwhile destination;…
Back when the only surfable wave in the Blue Mountains/Georgian Bay region of Ontario was the New Wave onslaught, you had to buy your records at Becker’s convenience or Stedman’s department…
There are no sure things in adventure filmmaking. Even in a perfectly remote location with the best athletes in the world and gyro-stabilized helicopter cameras that cost more than a…
The first few pedal strokes feel all too familiar, but the backdrop is fresh. A knobbed tire kicks up a cloud of dust, which settles quickly to reveal the mighty…