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The opening pages of Kootenay Mountain Culture Magazine contain shorter, inquisitive and eclectic stories about local, national or international mountain culture where anything goes: profiles, adventure, essays, humour, history or oddity.

IssuesClimateCultureEnvironment

June 28, 2022

How To Save The World’s Only Inland Temperate Rainforest in the Kootenays?

ArtIssuesProfilesCulturePeople

May 27, 2022

Living Colour: Behind the Scenes of the Black & Rural Project

LakesProfilesEnvironmentPeople

May 10, 2022

Kootenay Man To Search For Gold With His Hand-Built Submarine

MountainsAthletesSkiingEnvironmentPeopleSport

April 16, 2022

Gallery of Gruel – The First Winter Traverse of the Purcells

EnvironmentCultureMountainsIssues

March 22, 2022

Herding Together: Mountain Muskox Group Helps Survivors of Alpine Trauma

HistoryCulture

March 10, 2022

A New Book Offers Up Amazing Old Photos of the Kootenays

LakesAthletesEnvironmentPeople

March 8, 2022

Freediving Under Canada’s Frozen Lakes

MountainsAthletesClimbingEnvironmentPeopleSport

January 13, 2022

Hold On and Let Go: Tragic Loss Leads To A Climbing First

MountainsAthletesEnvironmentPeopleSport

December 5, 2021

Slocan Valley Man Paraglides From Mexico To Canada: Sets A World Record

PeopleCultureProfilesArt

November 24, 2021

Meet Teenaged Carver Eli Volp And His ‘Ol Saw And Chain

MountainsAthletesSkiingEnvironmentPeopleSport

November 7, 2021

Why Andrew McNab is Every Skier’s Dream Wingman

CultureArt

August 20, 2021

Meet Lino Grifone: Artist, Educator, and Taxidermist of Porcupines

PaddlingFestivalsRiversCultureEnvironmentSport

July 17, 2021

The Clearwater Kayak Festival Is One Hull Of A Good Time. Here’s Why.

CultureIssuesHumour

April 7, 2021

No Handshake? Maybe There’s One Good Thing About A Pandemic

OceansRiversAthletesSurfingEnvironmentPeopleSport

March 24, 2021

Ben Gravy Surfed Every State In America. Including Kansas. Here’s How.

SportCultureHistory

February 11, 2021

Is This The Worst Hockey Helmet In Canada?

RiversMountainsSnowboardingEnvironmentSport

January 12, 2021

My Paddle’s Keen and Bright—and F’n Cold: A Winter Splitboard Adventure on the Columbia

ArtIssuesProfilesCulturePeople

January 11, 2021

About-Faces: Meet The Drag Performers of Nelson, British Columbia

IssuesClimateLeadersCultureEnvironmentPeople

December 27, 2020

A Kootenay Professor Has Proven Trees Communicate With One Another

MountainsAthletesSkiingEnvironmentPeopleSport

December 15, 2020

Tyson Rettie is taking blind people backcountry skiing. This is how.

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