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To refuse the stories of the past is to disregard the headwaters from which we flow. Both magazines regularly investigate the tales of our most influential tributaries.

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December 30, 2019

Dear Son… This Is All You Need To Know For The Future

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August 2, 2019

Where Does The Word “Dirtbag” Come From Anyway?

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July 9, 2019

Real News? This is Why Mountain Towns Are Only Getting Half The Story

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June 22, 2019

Why The Mystery Mountain Expedition Was Renamed Misery

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June 18, 2019

Forest-Fire Ecologist Robert Gray: “It’s Going To Get Worse.”

a forest fire burns near Castlegar, British Columbia, in 2018
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May 17, 2019

I was an Undercover Slocan Hippy for the FBI

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May 1, 2019

Meet Canada’s First Female To Climb Over 10,000′ Mary Vaux

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April 10, 2019

The History of Mount Baker’s Ski to Sea Race

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April 9, 2019

The Witches of the Kootenays

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January 21, 2019

Clayoquot Sound: Once Off The Radar; Now Off The Charts

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December 31, 2018

A Sunken WWII Ship Near Jasper, Alberta? Yep.

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November 7, 2018

Lusti For Life – Meet Big Mountain Skier Christina Lustenberger

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November 6, 2018

Watch the Full “Children of Columbia” Movie by Sherpas Cinema

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August 31, 2018

The Hippie Utopia That Was Lund, British Columbia

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July 28, 2018

How Cody Caves Was Saved From Logging

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July 23, 2018

Forest-Fire Ecologist Robert Gray – Is It Finally Time We Heed His Advice?

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July 9, 2018

The Lost Whole Moose Catalogue – Revisited

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June 27, 2018

The Master Blaster of Squamish: Big Jim Sinclair

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June 21, 2018

Columbia Basin Trust Spending $2 Million on 42 Heritage Projects

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June 14, 2018

How Is Coffee Changing Our Mountain Towns?

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