Trail Mix: Curated Brain Snacks from the Rockies

In the new TRAIL MIX department of ML Rocky Mountains, the editors offer tasty and nourishing brain snacks consisting of the latest events, thinkers, ideas, culture, arts and personalities from the aRockies and beyond.

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Below the Surface

In 1961, the damming of the Columbia River in Canada flooded fertile valleys and old-growth forests, it displaced people, killed wildlife and forced Indigenous nations from traditional land. The 60-year-old treaty that affected the lives of thousands is currently being renegotiated.

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Stratigraphy Storytelling: Exploring Layers and Time

While standing on the Columbia Icefield, Bow Valley author and storyteller Lynn Martel and ACMG Hiking Guide Tim Patterson contemplate how the layers found in a glacier mirror the complex layers of storytelling that make up our history.

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Spilling the Archival Tea

The Whyte Museum's Archives and Special Collections department holds the history, happiness and heartbreak of the Canadian Rockies.

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Precarious by Nature

Performance artist Sasha Galitzki is reinventing the circus arts by dancing with glaciers.

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Juxtapose: The Role of Hunting in Conservation

Many people would be perplexed by a biologist shooting an animal on their weekend. “I’ve never been involved in an activity that’s so contentious," Peter White admits.

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Behind the Lens With Captain Baguette

A beloved ML Rockies contributor, Agathe Bernard, shares the evolution of her nomadic existence and how life on the move creates opportunities to behold moments of unexpected beauty.

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ML Rockies: ‘The Play Issue’ Out Now

As we mark 20 years of Mountain Life magazines across the country this year, this issue of the Rockies mag is a nod to those existential, playful threads that have woven our mountain communities together over the past couple of decades.

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Mountain Life Takes Home Multiple Awards

Ahem, so ... we're officially "award-winning" again. Yup: ML Rocky Mountains and ML Coast Mountains both received awards recently at the 2023 Alberta Magazine Publishers Association Conference.

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Powder Highway Revisited

Let’s take the Powder Highway again. Retrace some of our steps—with the children and grandfather, of course. Why not, really?

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Facing Uncertainty: The Role of Chance in Mountain Adventures

Mountain Guide and Parks Canada Visitor Safety Specialist Steve Holeczi discusses the role of chance in mountain adventures and how to assess the unknown.

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Behind the Photo: Rockies Edition

Behind the scenes of three action photos from ML's Rocky Mountains edition.

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The Wild West

Journey into Larry Land, into the realm of monstrous mountains and intricate glaciers, as Andrew Findlay and Steve Ogle take aim at Canada’s only Haute-Route-esque hut-to-hut ski traverse.

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An Uphill Battle

The up-track at Kimberley Alpine Resort was the first sanctioned and designated skin track at a Canadian ski resort, although the route had been well used for years prior under the cover of darkness.

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Sarah Hornby, Penny Lawless & Katrina Rosen, Icefields Parkway

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Friends in High Places

When injury transforms the definition of adventure.

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The Talented Ms. Ripley

Canmore environmentalist Shannon Ripley is one of a ‘rind.’ A soil scientist with a soft spot for community composting, she’s done heaps to help enrich the Bow Valley since moving to the mountains in 2015.

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The Canadian Arms Race

The Canadian Rockies have become one of the only reliable places on the planet to climb ice, and mountaineers from across the globe are heading here to swing their tools.

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