River Rights: Balancing Sea-to-Sky River Resources
words :: Carmen Kuntz. Let’s blast the top off Mount Garibaldi and build a solar farm—or better yet, pave Brohm Ridge for wind turbines. Hypothetical perhaps, but if such proposals…
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River Idiot no More: Learning to Whitewater Canoe in Five Days
As we crash through each recirculating wave, I watch my bow partner grab the gunwales and yell at him to keep his paddle in the water. Each wave that breaks…
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Before the Drop: Waterfall Drops and How Media Tells Less Than Half the Story
Standing in line at the grocery store, you pick up a magazine. Flipping it open you pause on a photo: a tiny red kayak embedded in a frothing vertical wall…
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Free Falling: The Exhilaration of Getting Airborne on Coast Mountain Waterfalls
Raw, untamed, unrelenting, unforgiving, uncaring – and yet peaceful and calming at the same time – waterfalls are the ultimate visual display of the earth’s power, cutting through solid rock,…
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MULTIPLICITY 2016: Benny Marr—The Wild Ways of a Whitewater Wizard
Born in Ontario, professional kayaker Benny Marr currently doesn’t have a home. And that’s fine by him. Traveling the world, couch surfing, or crashing in the back of his truck,…
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The Yukon’s Snake River
The Yukon’s Snake River is one of the true gems of the Peel River Watershed. Paddling it is the trip of a lifetime. And all who experience come back changed.…
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British Columbia’s Backyard Booty
Text & photos by Jimmy Martinello. One thing about B.C. that is so incredibly rad is that within five minutes to an hour you can be out and surrounded by…
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Whitewater SUP
Check out what the boys from the Coast Mountain edition of Mountain Life are up to: good freaking times on inflatable SUPs. Chilcotin Quest – A Whitewater SUP Experience from…
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