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Leslie Anthony
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Putting Things Right: How the Pandemic Reveals our Dependence on Nature
Words & photos :: Leslie Anthony. Last April, as the COVID-19 pandemic was accelerating into the juggernaut that has now pinned us down for more than a year, an article…
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Happy Trails: When Human And Nonhuman Trails Converge
It’s spring, and as snow retreats from the land, we hedonistic Canadians begin to think about our next outdoor adventures—most of which will involve “trails” of some kind.
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Celebrate 10 Years of Mountain Life Coast Mountains
It was Bob Dylan who said, “Time passes slowly up here in the mountains.” And that’s true when you’re out there on the ridge line watching the sun sink…
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Down the Rabbit Hole: One Photographer’s Unexpected Journey to the Centre of the Earth
He leans back and sips his beer with what seems self-satisfaction. He knows how crazy it sounds but that’s the point: a story that admixes the thrills, fears and abiding…
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Biophiliac: Eagle Eye
When it comes to one city’s re-wilding efforts, seeing is believing. Written by Leslie Anthony. Near the end of March, 2013, with the cattails lying flat and brown in forlorn…
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Nature: Share Generously
by Leslie Anthony. On a sunny August day a few years back, at the start of a canoe trip through Algonquin Park with my then 16-year-old daughter, Myles, we pulled…
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Mountain Life launches 2014-15 ANNUAL
When we set out to conquer the world, a key piece of the puzzle was to launch a top-shelf national publication for our loyal, über-supportive readers to dive into. Our…
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TICKS SUCK: Fear and Loathing with the Swiss Army Knife of Disease Vectors
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.
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Enlighten Up: The Life Yogic, Part II
by Leslie Anthony Bikram (hot yoga)—the unanticipated whipping boy of a dinner-party discussion about the yin-yang of yoga conducted largely by devotees—eventually caught a break, though the rancorous/humorous litany around…
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Biophiliac: A Fish Tale
By Leslie Anthony. There are many things in this world that make you go “Hmm…” Some fall into the category of inexplicable human actions (e.g., littering, murder, conservatism – oh…
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BATTLE ROYALE: POWDER ANGST vs. CONTENTMENT
Sometimes in skiing you just need a little Zen. Photo Leslie Anthony. by Leslie Anthony and Asta Kovanen I’m that guy. Crack of dawn on a powder day, in the…
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BACKCOUNTRY CHAOS? Naturally.
by Leslie Anthony The backcountry, say many in Whistler, is an over-crowded disaster, descending into chaos. Is there a problem there? Not unless you consider a renaissance in design, materials…
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OLYMPIC WISH LIST: Bring Back the Barrel Jump
by Leslie Anthony In this Olympic season I’d like to talk a bit about a pure, backyard-bred, gauntlet-throwing event that many people of my generation were convinced was once in…
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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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The Powder Plan
by Leslie Anthony There’s nothing like a big dump at Whistler Blackcomb. You can feel the vibe even before you go outside in the morning—and that doesn’t mean reverberations from…
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A Measure of Legend
by Leslie Anthony The snow finally came to B.C.. And when it came I was in one of the best places you could be for it. I hadn’t been to…
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MOUNTAIN CULTURE: permanent state or a planet we’re just visiting?
by Leslie Anthony We hear a lot about what draws people to mountains. What makes us want to climb, conquer and commune with them. There are many reasons people forsake…
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Ban Plastic Bags in Mountain Resorts? Rubbish!
by Leslie Anthony Last week I posted a funny piece about what to do with the tsunami of tsunami debris expected to hit the west coast of North America in…
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Ellipse — Once more around the sun, please.
Living in the courts of the sky I forgot I was of the earth —Lionel Terray, Conquistadors of the Useless by Leslie Anthony Not much really happens in a year…
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