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The KORE Outdoors Summit, Canada’s only outdoor gear design conference, returns to Kimberley for its fifth year on September 17 and 18.
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Golden, BC: The Ultimate Fall Trail Guide for Hiking the Canadian Mountain National Parks
A season worth hiking for in Golden, BC. It is no secret that from the beginning of September until the middle of October, it is the best time to lace…
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New Dirt Alert!
RED Mountain Resort is cooking up the freshest new bike park in Canada opening on June 21st and you’re invited!
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Sunset Sessions
Behind the scenes of the golden-hour sunset photo and bike sesh in the Coast Mountains.
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Surfing by Cessna on B.C.’s West Coast
You can fly in any time you like, but you might never leave.
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Don’t Love It To Death: Being a Better Outdoorist, Part 1
More people than ever are recreating outdoors. And this is a good thing. What isn’t a good thing? The increasing number of bad actors out there. In British Columbia, one…
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Friday Flick: North Shore Betty
Just in time for Mother's Day, check 'North Shore Betty'—a short film about 73-year-old Betty Birrell and her hard-charging life in southern B.C.
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Skinnydipping in Pow—The Naked Ski Segment Everyone Needs To See
This is the kind of clip that social media was made for — two minutes of really fresh mountain mastery in the buff — basically guaranteed to put a smile…
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Powder Pioneer: How Mike Wiegele Changed the Way We Ski Powder
Mike Wiegele is focused. Focused on skiing powder, and enabling others to do so. No one else in the industry can stand up to the influence he had on the…
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Mark Abma, James King, and Chris Hunter Want To See What Squamish, BC Is Ready For
“What is Squamish ready for?” The question came up right from the get-go when friends Mark Abma and James King approached architect Chris Hunter about joining forces to try something…
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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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Heli-Assisted Ski Touring Takes the Schlep Out of Backcountry
Skiers and boarders dream of different things. Whether it’s wide open alpine runs or steeps littered with pillows begging to be popped like a landscape of bubble wrap, the one…
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Mountain Town: Kimberley is Much More Than Just “A Good Place to Be”
As one of several stops along British Columbia’s Powder Highway, the city of Kimberley tends to shy away from the limelight.
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Keeping the Peace: The Site C Dam May Become B.C.’s Most Costly Environmental Battle
Pitting farmers and food security against industry jobs, heritage against so-called clean energy, the proposed Site C dam may become British Columbia’s most costly environmental battle. As day breaks…
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School of Rock: Fifty Pitches of BC’s Remote Gem—Mount Bute
Mount Bute, tucked away at the end of the Bute Inlet on British Columbia’s central coast, is one of those fantastically remote mountains that few people will ever lay eyes…
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Fight for the Sacred Headwaters: We All Live Downstream
Originally published in the February 2015 “Tribe Issue” of Mountain Life Coast Mountains, this article from the crew at Beyond Boarding showcases one of the many risks facing British Columbian…
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Trailblazer: Basil Darling Racked Up An Impressive List of First Ascents
When the nattily dressed, bespectacled bank employee and former cricket captain Basil Darling arrived on the west coast from Toronto in the early 1900s, few might have guessed he’d become…
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Reclaim the Fishermen: The Salty Life Aboard a Commercial Crab Boat
When I accepted the invitation to come aboard the Lasqueti Explorer as a photographer and deck hand, I didn’t fully anticipate being face down in rotten squid, clams, and salmon…
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