Trail Mix: Curated Brain Snacks from the Rockies

In the new TRAIL MIX department of ML Rocky Mountains, the editors offer tasty and nourishing brain snacks consisting of the latest events, thinkers, ideas, culture, arts and personalities from the aRockies and beyond.

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Spilling the Archival Tea

The Whyte Museum's Archives and Special Collections department holds the history, happiness and heartbreak of the Canadian Rockies.

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Juxtapose: The Role of Hunting in Conservation

Many people would be perplexed by a biologist shooting an animal on their weekend. “I’ve never been involved in an activity that’s so contentious," Peter White admits.

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Mountain Lifer

Know Yo Christo!

Christo Grayling is a ‘surf of the earth’ kind of dude. With the added elements of sand, sun, and board shorts thrown in.

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Mountain Lifer

Renewal > Loss

How the closure of a popular tourist attraction in Banff National Park led to the reincarnation of an ecosystem.

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CLIMBING

Movin’ On Up: Filipino-Canadians Build Community in the Rockies

K8 Mountaineering Club of Alberta is now a non-profit organization and second home to many Filipino-Canadian mountaineers. The club organizes hikes, scrambles and climbing (sport, alpine and ice) for its 40 members and goes beyond that to provide camaraderie, kinship, and community.

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Know Your Neighbour Banffs Resident Unicorn Masaki Yokota Georgi Silckerodt levitate crop

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Mountain Lifer

Know Your Neighbour: Banff’s Resident Unicorn, Masaki Yokota

words :: Corrie DiManno. While he could be described as mild-mannered, Masaki “Saki” Yokota keeps a wild card or two up his sleeve. Born and raised in Banff, he’s what…

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Phantom Pursuit

The elusive, enigmatic wolverine—few have seen one, many fear them.

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Spring in the Rockies Can’t Be Beat

words :: Ben Osborne // cover photo :: Dan Evans / Courtesy Norquay. It’s kind of backwards, isn’t it? As the snowpack in the mountains out west stacks up and…

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Skiing

Home On The Front Range

Is it any coincidence that Alberta’s best skiing can be found in Alberta’s best places? Words:: Leslie Anthony I’m sliding across the bottom of an ocean. More precisely, an ocean…

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Videos

Sherpas Cinema’s Visual Love Note to Banff

If ever there was a team skilled enough to capture the beauty of Banff and Ski Big 3, Sherpas Cinema is surely that team. Their meteoric rise to the top…

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The Great Outdoors

Five Reasons Your Next Ski Vacation Should be in a Canadian National Park

While there are countless reasons to visit Canada’s mountains this year, here are five reasons your next ski vacation should be in Banff National Park. 1. Banff is…

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My Only Sunshine: Family Laps at Sunshine Village Resort

At Sunshine Village Resort our son falls in love with the mountains. We hit an uncharacteristic sunny spell and the vistas from atop the Continental Divide Express Quad are absolutely…

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2016 Banff Mountain Film and Book Festival Tickets On Sale Today

Once again Mountain Life has partnered with the Banff Mountain Film Festival, nine days bursting with stories of profound journeys, unexpected adventures and ground breaking expeditions told by renowned authors,…

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129 Banff Ave: A Search For Canada’s Freeride Roots Leads to Monod Sports

It’s the same home that Tatum Monod grew up in. And though a hint of what that might have been like resides in being a target for much of Peter’s…

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Preserving the Playgrounds

By Ned Morgan. The federal government’s severe cuts to Canada’s national parks last year should concern all Canadians, particularly winter users of public wilderness. Clearly, we can no longer assume that government…

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