ML Coast Mountains Summer Issue Out Now
Editor’s Message: FEET FIRST Let’s not kid ourselves, pretty much every issue of Mountain Life is “The Backyard Issue,” that’s kind of the point of it all—we love the Coast…
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Mini-Adventure: Lake Lovely Water
words :: Feet Banks // photos :: Mark Gribbon. Ever attempt to haul a full-sized plastic cooler packed with ice, beer, Jack Daniels and beef jerky up a five-kilometre trail…
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Electrifying the Sea to Sky: Mountain Biking’s New War in the Woods
Hot dang—I’m ripping! I’m boosting side hits, nearly blowing corners, my face is sore from smiling and laughing—and I haven’t even pointed the bike downhill yet. Instead, I’m climbing one of my favourite ascent trails…
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Spot Check: Mt. Barbour Alpine Trail
As skiers and snowboarders, we spend the entire winter gleefully watching the snow pile up from the highest peaks to the valley floor. As our legs and minds begin to…
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Backyard: Hiking and Paragliding Joffre Peak with Austin Ross
The Sea-to-Sky is home to a long list of dramatic peaks that watch over our valleys. Lucky for us there are countless ways to explore them. One of the more…
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TRANSCANADA: A Cross-Country Pilgrimage into the Wind
Canada, covering over 9.9 million square km, boasts a massive range of geography across the country. Sam Medysky grew up in a small town north of Toronto, Ontario. He’s spent…
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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 3: Squamish
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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Climbing Howe Sound’s Sea Cliffs
The Coast Mountains rise from the ocean like giants soaring into the sky and the granite walls that embrace the rugged coastline along the Sea to Sky Highway have long ignited our spirits as climbers.
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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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