Journey into Larry Land, into the realm of monstrous mountains and intricate glaciers, as Andrew Findlay and Steve Ogle take aim at Canada’s only Haute-Route-esque hut-to-hut ski traverse.
The up-track at Kimberley Alpine Resort was the first sanctioned and designated skin track at a Canadian ski resort, although the route had been well used for years prior under the cover of darkness.
Canmore environmentalist Shannon Ripley is one of a ‘rind.’ A soil scientist with a soft spot for community composting, she’s done heaps to help enrich the Bow Valley since moving to the mountains in 2015.
ML Rocky Mountains is now officially "award-winning." Last week at the Alberta Magazines Conference, a shot by Steve Ogle published in the inaugural winter issue won Best Landscape Photograph.
Lloyd "Buddy" Wesley leaned over the table with a sad grace as he sorted through his papers in preparation for his weekly Stoney language and culture class at Canmore’s artsPlace. I stood in the doorway on that warm evening in early June 2021, and watched him for a moment, taking him in. I could tell something was bothering him; he was carrying the weight of the world on his back.
On a clear spring morning, Rob Heule takes in the sunrise atop the Great Divide; British Columbia to one side, Alberta to the other. He studies a dozen different ski objectives in the golden light. The obvious descents would take him west to “Beautiful British Columbia” but, Rob has a different plan.
In Banff National Park, a group of artists held up a print of one of Catharine Robb Whyte’s paintings and spent time discerning where exactly she would have stood to paint it. The differences were startling, particularly the shrinking glaciers.
words :: Andrew Findlay // photos :: Steve Ogle. Skins sliding across hard snow make a quiet rustling sound, like dry leaves swept across pavement. The weight of a heavy…
For the past 18+ years, Mountain Life’s publications and digital presence have proven it’s possible to build something a community can really connect to. With the launch of ML in…
Written by Sean Leslie, Outdoor Research. There are some people who see the world in a different, more beautiful way. Forest Woodward is one of them, and his photographs allow…