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—Mt 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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The Other Side of the Mountain: Grit, dedication and doubt in the heart of the Coast Mountains
The team – two skiers, a photographer, a filmmaker and a sled-neck – saddle up and pin it north, navigating by map, compass, GPS and memories of Google Earth. All…
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Not Just for Powder Hounds: Heli-Biking B.C.’s Coast Mountains
It’s a memory you carry with you the rest of your life: a helicopter floats above a remote mountain before setting down, you hop out as the rotors roar…
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Mountain Biking B.C.’s South Coast Part 2: Howe Sound Highline
Since we started Mountain Life: Coast Mountains almost a decade ago, mountain biking has essentially taken over the world. So it made sense that the first 13-page SuperFeature we’ve ever…
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Surfing by Cessna on B.C.’s West Coast
If you had asked me five years ago, the idea of landing a plane with wheels on a sandy beach to go surfing wouldn’t have crossed my mind. . .…
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Riding High: Mountain Biking B.C.’s South Coast — Part 1
“A bike weighs 30 pounds, and your average rider weighs 150–200 pounds. So you’ve got this machine, that’s a small part of your bodyweight . . . and it makes…
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Is BC in Danger of Losing Provincial Parkland to Heavy Industry?
Picture this: You are standing on the bank of a river with the sun shining on your face, surrounded by lush green foliage and the sounds of nature—various species of…
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TICKS SUCK: Fear and loathing with the Swiss Army Knife of disease vectors.
by Leslie Anthony I jump at every tickle on my skin. My scalp tingles under my hat. I have the constant feeling that something’s crawling up my leg. And though…
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When the Going Gets Weird…
by Leslie Anthony In what was likely one of his more lucid moments, gonzo journalist Hunter S. Thompson famously stated that “When the going gets weird, the weird turn pro.”…
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