FALL/WINTER2016
MLCM
31
November’s
BreakingTrail
issue saw local skimountaineer
Trevor
Hunt
BigLineHunting
first descents inGeorgia’sCaucasusRange
and
DaveTreadway
goingdeep after the local goods in
TheOther
Side of theMountain.
Asmuch as our editorial staff hates to admit it, there are people
in theworld, lots of them, whoonly ‘read’
MountainLife
for the
photos. Sowe kickedoff the yearwithour first ever
Photography
Issue
and
NicTeichrob
steppedup the artistic gamewith an
experimental photo-projectionpiece,
Lights in theDark.
As expected, the
PhotoGallery
dominatedwith epic shots and stories
from
EricBerger
,
ReneGouin
,
Blake Jorgenson
and a chilling bird's
eye pondhockey shot fromCzechhockey phenom turnedWhistler shred
photographer
JussiGrznar.
Yes, Summer’s
Seek&Explore
Issue
was anod to early
Metallica
, but the real starswere the risingnumbers ofwomenmountainbikers sending it onbig terrain
in
DanielleBaker
’s story
ParkRats&GravityGirls.
Francois-XavierDeRuydts
broke into themag (andblewminds)with
RockWalls&Waterfalls,
a stunning
feature (and cover) about canyoneering inSquamish.
JUSSI GRZNAR
