Pete Rochacewich is a dirty trash talker. Affectionately known as Garbageman Pete, he relishes the opportunity to converse — especially with Canmore residents — about cardboard, cans and other crap.
Read More
Highline Magazine sponsors the Canmore Folk Festival Pub stage.
Read More
Seventy-three years ago, when I was 10, my father took me fishing in his heavy, clinker built boat. Powered by a 1¼ horsepower British Seagull outboard motor, we braved a stormy ocean to fish with hand lines for plaice and cod.
Read More
It has been twenty years now since the seed of a connected future for the Rockies from the Yellowstone to the Yukon took root in our local mountain culture. Here’s a history of how the vision for Y2Y came to life.
Read More
How has a process so crucial to our survival come to feel like a criminal act? Get the dirty on the local food scene here in the Bow Valley. Buying local and eating local is on the rise, and we’ve got all the details.
Read More
The Windtower — if you glimpse it while driving the Trans-Canada just south of Canmore — looms like a monster in a child’s nightmare. It’s so sharp and vertical that hiking to the summit seems laughably impossible.
Yet Windtower is hikeable from the other side. Starting at Spray Lakes Reservoir, a trail ascends to West Wind Pass. From there, a boot-beaten route leads to the summit, which grants an aerial perspective of the Bow and Spray Valleys.
Read More
Learn to spot the difference between a raven and a crow.
Read More
Do you dread that feeling of straggling behind your friends in the backcountry? Have you ever considered manipulating the dynamics of the group for the sake of your own enjoyment? If you answered yes to either of these questions, rest assured that you are not alone in your wily ways.
Read More