MOUNTAIN LIFE - Coast Mountains | Fal Winter 2016 - page 30

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FALL/WINTER2016
As theMayan calendar prepared to turnover inDecember 2012, we dropped
The End of theWorld Issue
with a killer storyon
eccentric hermit
VernonPick’sWaldenNorth
doomsdaybunker near Lillooet, writtenby
JaneCarrico
and shot by
ReubenKrabbe.
We alsohad articles titled
Apocalypse POW, Run to theHills
and a real storyonhow to cook and live off of seagulls by
Jess Smith.
By this stage, wemust have felt establishedbecausewe busted into
2012with
The RealDeal
issue. Local icon
DanoPendygrasse
explainedwhy you always answer your phonewhen
Ken
Achenbach
gives you
TheCall
.
KyePetersen
got the cover skiing
spines in theTantalus and
Jeff Slack
tookuswayback to trailblazer
climbingduoTheMundays.Then, early in the year, theworld lost
SarahBurke
, one of the realest, real deal heroes of our age.Her
light shines on, andwe definitelymiss and love youSarah.
Summer’s
Airtime Issue
featuredone of ourmost popular covers ever
–
DeanPotter
wing-suitingoff ametal ramp strapped to the
topofMount Bute (RIPDean). Inside, freediver
Mandy
RaeCruickshank
canhold air for a long time (she had
sevenworld records at that point) and
TheBackPage
showcased amore accessible, local kindof airtime,
courtesyof
MasonMashon,
a rope swing
andWhistler’s ubiquitous rubber raft.
MASONMASHON
STEVESHANNON
GOLDFINGER
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