Friday Flick: North Shore Betty
Just in time for Mother's Day, check 'North Shore Betty'—a short film about 73-year-old Betty Birrell and her hard-charging life in southern B.C.
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Scientist, Mountaineer, Mom: Alison Criscitiello Blazes a Trail in the World’s Coldest Places
Scientist, mountaineer, mother and mentor to young women—pioneering alpinist and glacier specialist Alison Criscitiello wears many hats.
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Icy Acrobatics / Haute voltige de glace
Last March, Quebec high-diving athlete Lysanne Richard launched herself headfirst from a 22-metre platform into a hole dug through the ice of a flooded quarry in Thetford Mines.
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Mind Over Mountain: An Intimate Account of the Bugs-to-Rogers Traverse
Mind Over Mountain follows Canadian snow sliders Leah Evans, Marie-France Roy and Madeleine Martin-Preney on their 85-mile, 30,000-foot-vertical Bugaboos to Rogers ski traverse.
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Friday Flick: Life of a Ski Patroller
Hannah Baybutt is a Ski Patroller in Sun Valley, Idaho. For her, living and working in the mountains means being part of something bigger, feeling connected with the people around…
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Protecting Canada’s Oldest Provincial Park
A conversation with Algonquin Provincial Park Biologist Jennifer Hoare. Words :: Carmen Kuntz. Jenn Hoare’s kids are living a childhood much like her own. Before she begins her own story…
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Black Outdoors/Black Imaginations
Katherine McKittrick interviews Jacqueline L. Scott. KM: I would love to start with a big typical interview question: what is your area of research and how did you come to…
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Pêcheuse de fil en mouche / Women on the Water
mots :: Christina Hedrei // photos :: Alain Denis. Au début, c’était une sorte de thérapie. La pêche à la mouche me permettait de m’évader pour admirer la beauté de la…
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Des grimpeuses au sommet / Women Climbers Soaring to New Heights
Les doigts ensanglantés d’Émilie sondaient le granite. Le vent fouettait sa corde. Son souffle était court. Perchée une centaine de mètres au-dessus de la Baie Éternité, la grimpeuse se répétait…
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Date Wild: Advice on Getting to Know Today’s Adventure Woman
Words :: Carmen Kuntz // illustration :: Dave Barnes. She comes to a skidding halt spraying dust into the gaping mouths of spectating guys. You know the woman—the one equally…
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Postpartum Expectations
Moms are sharing the unique, and sometimes unexpected, realities around getting back on their boards and bikes after childbirth. Words :: Danielle Baker. Social and mainstream media is awash with…
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Wrapped in the Cloud: The Story Behind Meghann O’Brien’s “Sky Blanket”
When weaver Meghann O’Brien needed her artwork to be in two places at once, the answer was in the cloud. Words :: Feet Banks // photos :: Mason Mashon. Meghann…
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She Summits Opens Dialogue about Femininity in the Outdoors
She Summits just hosted yet another event, but this time it was online—bringing together eight short films about femininity in the outdoors. Words: Linnaea Kershaw. From practicing cultural traditions…
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The Trailblazing Women of Vancouver Island
words :: Carmen Kuntz. Chatting on the phone with my sister, she concludes a salt-saturated story about an encounter with sea wolves on a recent Vancouver Island hiking trip with…
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Raising Girls Who Rip
words & photos :: Allison Kennedy Davies. There’s a phrase I’ve enjoyed more and more since I became a mother: Here’s to strong women. May we know them, may we…
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The Well Travelled Collective Promises to Bring Females to the Forefront
words :: Ben Osborne. Pulp Fiction, Inglourious Basterds and Mad Max. What do all three movies have in common (besides being all-time greats)? They were all edited by a woman.…
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Comin’ Up: Annabelle McDonald Is On Her Way
Fifteen-year-old Squamish phenom on climbing, camping, and Cuba words :: Feet Banks The stamps in Annabelle McDonald’s passport read like a rock climber’s bucket list. She learned in Australia and…
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The Radical Art of Self-Expression with Seija Halonen
words :: Lisa Richardson photos :: Courtesy of Seija Halonen Seija Halonen strikes you quickly as one of those rare people who have no skeletons in their closet. Not that…
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Waking Down Barriers: the First Women’s Wakeboard Event at the Pan Am Games
No women’s wakeboarding event at the Pan Am Games? Erika Langman changed that. words :: Kristin Schnelten During her more than ten years on the international wakeboard scene, Ontario athlete…
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