Earlywinter brought
The
Backcountry Issue
andour first
Eric
Berger
cover. It also sawour thickest
issue yet, a punchy82pages.
By springwewere consistentlyworkingwith solid local talents like
Lisa
Richardson
,
ChrisChristie
,
BrianFinestone
and some random ski/bike
journalist named
LesAnthony
, who lentweight to themagwith
Inshallah
,
an ‘EpicTrip’ ski feature fromPakistan.
Our
FreshWater Summer Issue
saw
FeetBanks
and
MarkGribbon
fly
fishing in
Lake LovelyWater
, took a
look at the classic
Whistler Skatebowl
,
and featured a storyon this new
farm-to-table food trendknown as
the
LocavoreMovement
.
November’s
POW! Issue
sawPemberton’smost famousmountain get a deeper look in
MountCurrie:Unplugged
, wherewe talked to the first descent teamof
Beat
Steiner
and
PeterChrzanowski
and alsoheard about next-generation rippers
KyePetersen
and
LoganPehota
’s first turns in theMainChute, 20 years to the day
that their fathers skied it together for the first time.
After submitting
OneNet at aTime
, an epic adventure/humanitarian story
aboutmotor biking aroundAfrica distributingmosquitonets tomalaria-
ravaged areas, photo editor
ToddLawson
upped the ante andbecame a
publisher of
MountainLife
just as the economic crisis of 2008hit andprint
media acrossNorthAmerica began to falter anddie.
Therewas a foot-wide ledge of rock at
the bottom of the climb. It’s prettymuch
awall of ice right down to thewater but
wemanage to pull the canoe up onto some
boulders and carefully step onto the ledge
and into our crampons....
–Excerpt from
WakeyWakey
by Jimmy
Martinello, winter 2008
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