MOUNTAIN LIFE - Coast Mountains | Winter Spring 2019

TABLE OF CONTENTS The Time Travel Issue 12 MLCM WINTER/SPRING 2019 ON THIS PAGE Coast Mountain forests time travel by staying right where they are and letting history come to them. Jesse Millen, Blackcomb Mountain. ANDREW STRAIN ON THE COVER BrettTippie only knows two tricks. Left turns and right turns. Here's 26 years of lefts. TIPPIE IMAGES, BACK TO FRONT 2019-Keefer Lake Lodge BC. ANDREW LAWRENCE; 2019-Monashees BC. ANDREW LAWRENCE; 1997-Nakiska AB. JOHN GIBSON; 1993-Breckenridge CO. ERIC BERGER; 1989-Hemlock Valley BC. JOHN KAMITAKAHARA; 1993-Kamloops BC. PAULA SPRUCE; COVER COMPOSITE ARTWORK BY STU MACKAY-SMITH UpFront EDITOR’S MESSAGE Feet First p. 16 BROTHERLY LOVE Peiffer Boys on Tour p. 25 PACIFIC HERRING Small Fish, Big Deal p. 29 TIME IMMEMORIAL What’s in a Name? p. 30 Departments CULTURE Tele-Curious p. 35 BEYOND Shooting Arrows at Time p. 38 ARTIST Maja Aro & The Amazons p. 41 WELLNESS Here, Not Here p. 45 CHARACTER Aunty Babe’s West Coast p. 89 GALLERY Then & Now p. 98 BACK PAGE Snow Cave Sex p. 113 Features TIME CLIMATE Is Time Running Out? p. 48 THE TIME TRAVELLER Brett Tippie and 35 Years of Shred p. 62 RIDE FREE SLOVENIA Mountain Biking in a Mountain Country p. 72