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Aquatics centre: • 25 m - 8 lane pool with depths from 4-8 feet • Zero beach leisure pool • Lazy river • Large and small water slides • Steam room • On deck pool and second floor spectator viewing • 25 person hot tub • Locker rooms and showers • On deck multi-purpose rooms

Community library: • Large multipurpose room • Technology area • Children’s collection and story area • Collection space

Climbing centre:• 10,000 square feet of climbing surface • Bouldering area• 45 foot climbing wall• Speed wall

Art gallery• Gallery for the Canmore Arts Guild (CAG)

Community amenities:• Fitness room• Multipurpose rooms• Community atrium with stage• Fireplace and exterior deck• Child care space

Elevation Place“An inspiring gathering place that enriches the well-being, enjoyment and aspirations of the community.”

Elevation Place, located at 700 Railway Avenue. Phone: 403.678.8920 Drop in, registered programs, and facility rentals will begin in January 2013. Please note: Opening dates are based on current construction completion estimation and are subject to change.

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Winter 2013Volume 5 | Issue 1

Founding Publisher | Creative diCtator: Kristy “The Maestro” Davison · kristy@highlineonline.ca

editor | Web guru: Meghan J. “Ma Bell” Ward · meghan@highlineonline.ca

Creative MasterMind | designer: Brita “The Cool Coper” Thomas

graPhiC designer: Julie “Sweetie Pie” McArthur · Wild Ginger Design

the FreshMaker: Andrew “Nathaniel Hornblower / Cookie Puss / Bunny” Dawson

CoPy editor: Paul “P Diddy” Davison

advertising sales: Stefan “Tough Guy” Grecu · stefan@highlineonline.ca

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Contributors

Sara Eve Alarie, Erin Cipollone, Dan Rafla, Reuben Krabbe, Camara Miller, Chloe

Vance, Chic Scott, John Reid, Mystee Maisonet, Corrie DiManno, Lynn Martel, Bob

Sandford, Joanna Croston, Tim Remick, Cory Keefer.

sPeCial thanks

Siri Bright, Allan Buckingham, John Coleman, Lynne Robertson, Jody Goodwin, Christine

Thel, Michelle Oszust, Dave Stark, Sarah Pearson, Jeff Thom, Tom Thompson and Har-

vest Moon Acoustics, Cindy Newton, Bryon Parlo, Mitch Sime, Chloe Vance, Julia Lynx,

Adam Robertson, Paul Zizka, Cory Keefer, Brenda Davison and Macx Davies.

Cover photo: A climber admires the creek flowing out from the North Glacier of Mt.

Forbes at sunset. Shot points to the southwest of the Mons Icefield. Photo by Dan Rafla.

THIS ISSuE IS DEDICATED TO THE MEMORy OF PETER THOMPSON, WHO MADE THE

WORLD EVERyTHING HE WANTED IT TO BE, AND WILL BE FOREVER IN OuR HEARTS.

Highline Magazine is a free, semi-

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I have never lIked water.I don’t like to drink it, showers are a chore, and washing my face only happens on special occa-sions. Like a feral kitten, I will scratch the living daylights out of you if you try to push me into a lake when I’m not expecting it. And if I could turn water into wine, you’d better believe I would do it.

So the idea of “Water” as a possible theme for this, our 10th issue, was ironic to say the least. But, reminded by the Highline team that my own body is made up of 98% water (dang!), what more could I do than embrace the idea and jump in with both feet?

As soon as the watery theme was agreed upon, we were instantly drowning in bright ideas and incredible stories, leaving us bailing out the Highline canoe. Water became the sol-vent into which all of this issue’s content began to dissolve.

For example: you can grab a paddle and row the Bow with Sheena Miller in Know Your Neigh-bour; put up a fight against Mother Nature in Exposed; beat your addiction to bottled-water with Erin Cipollone in Get Off the Sauce; skate on a lake with Sara Eve Alarie in Baby Got Back; and hit up a Cold-Water Therapy session with resident ice-man, John Reid in Taking the Plunge.

And that’s just the tip of the iceberg.Here in the Rockies, we are stewards of the

continent’s water towers. Let this issue remind us all to appreciate the life-giving substance that unites us. Be grateful for water’s finger-print on every slab, crack, snowflake and frozen breath you take out in the hills this season.

Because after all, you really can’t have winter without a little water.

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CHIC SCOTTChic discovered the mountains 50 years ago. Since then he has devoted his life to backcountry ski-ing, climbing, guiding, organizing clubs, writing books and lecturing about mountains.keepers: Skis, boots, poles.goners: “I keep only the things that I need and love, so would not like to see anything float away.”

Sara eve alarIeThe natural world and working with young children fill Sara with wonderment and awe. She has been fortunate to teach Grade 1 in Canmore since 2005. keepers: Pet worms (vermicomposter), shoeboxes of old photos, favourite backpack.goners: Clouds (to reveal a blue sky).

COrrIe DIMannO Corrie hasn’t strayed far from the Bow Valley since graduating three years ago with a degree in photo-journalism. She lives for sunny days, Wild Flour’s chai lattes, and good jokes. keepers: A ratty Lilith Fair shirt from 1997, Travel journals, Unused greeting card collection. goners: ”I would let my cell phone, makeup and hairbrush float away.”

JOHn reIDJohn would be fun to take to a party. Unless it was a cat party. He doesn’t like cats.keepers: Calvin & Hobbes collection, Road bike, Settlers of Catan.goners: Student loans.

MySTee MaISOneTMystee loves hiking, skiing, cycling, yoga and cooking. In the summer, she and a friend keep Banffites cool at the Farmer’s Market with their Manna Mama gourmet popsicles. keepers: Skis, boots, poles.goners: Her son’s messy room!

JOanna CrOSTOnRolling into the Canadian Rockies during the -30C snap of Hallowe’en ’98, Joanna has never regretted her decision to call Canmore home. Although backcountry skiing, climbing and cycling are her true loves, the geek in her might just hold the local reading record at 60 pages per hour.keepers: Fausto (her Italian made road bike), Her copy of A Fine Balance, Her Eiger Sanction DVD.goners: She would be delighted if her vacuum cleaner floated away and sank.

erIn CIpOllOneErin’s work has been published in various major daily newspapers and some magazines. She thinks the fine for speeding in the park should be raised to $1000 per offense.keepers: The family bike, a copy of How to Write a Sub-Par Screenplay and Get Paid, and the photo of her and Vladimir Putin at the International Space Station.goners: She’d let her husband’s “sun hat” float far, far away.

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what would you liKe to see float away?

DEADLINE FOR ENTRIES: FEbRuaRy 29, 2013.

coNtest details:We’re looking for your best shots of mountain adventure, sport, landscape, people and wildlife. Think apocalyptic conditions, seldom-photographed locations, and other rare perspectives on common mountain subjects. Make us laugh, make us cry, make us feel grateful to call this place home!

Winning entries will be published in Highline Magazine’s Summer 2013 Issue and winners will also receive a custom gallery wrap canvas print of their image, brought to you by The Pro Image in Canmore.

• Grand Prize: 24”x 36” print

• two runners-uP: 16”x 24” print

IIIHighline and The Pro Image Bring you

An Annual Mountain Photo Contest

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know your neighbournighthostEd by highlinE magazinEparty and chill out in a fun, friendly atmo-sphere while we all get neighbourly at this awesome annual community event! with music, games, prizes and beer, what more can you hope for on a cold november night?each Kynn supports great initiatives in the bow valley. this time around, the pinK and green ribbon campaign will be front and centre, running a stellar raffle to support the fantastic worK that they do.

musical performances by local favourite, The eerie Green and golden-based rocK gods, Willhorse.

WhEn: friday, november 9th 2012 doors open at 6:45, show starts at 7:30 sharp. music & after party goes all night!

WhERE: cornerstone theatre and restaurant 125 KananasKis way, canmore

PRicE: $15 advance, $18 at the door. (cash only at the door.) ticKets available online at: highlinEonlinE.ca/ticKEts

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This delightful little calendar is your ticket to everything hip and happenin’ in the Bow Valley. It’s your free hug from the Highline gang. And we’re not normally huggy people.

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Bear HuGs to the nice stranger who donated his Keen ‘hiking sandals’ (not cheap in price these things) to a pal loaded with blisters on our way up Bourgeau. A summit in sandals: not smart, but we made it, thanks to him.

Bear HuGs to those “Aww yeah! Woohooo!” hooters ripping down mountain bike trails, not worried about beating their best time.

Bear HuGs, a spare tube, and a case of cold ones to the two biker dudes rippin’ on the Minnewanka trail on Sept 22.

Mooseknuckles to fish tits. I’ll drown you with line weights, you dirtbag.

Bear HuGs to Cindy for the pulled pohk in the pahk.

Mooseknuckles to ego, negativity, impatience and spoiled-rottenness.

Mooseknuckles to working your ass off and still being broke in the Bow Valley.

Bear HuGs to old flames and love stories that don’t always end happily ever after.

Mooseknuckle to our neighbors on the left. Bear hugs to our neighbors on the right. Don’t kid yourselves, you know which direction is which.

Mooseknuckles to dirty shortcutters. MK + Jr, you guys know who you are!

Bear HuG to Miss Lucy for the most poignant turkey wreath in the history of Grade One.

Mooseknuckle to Hostile Bears. Weak sauce.

Bear HuGs to cup holders that are big enough to hold wine bottles.

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straNGe sportsThINK FIGuRE SKaTING aND KITING maKE FOR aN ODD COmBO? IT PaLES IN COmPaRISON TO SOmE SPORTS YOu’LL FIND aROuND ThE WORLD.

WhICh OF ThE FOLLOWING IS aN aCTuaL SPORT? (You’ll find the answer somewhere in the mag. happy looking.)

a) TOE WRESTLING B) WIFE CaRRYINGC) OCTOPuSh (uNDERWaTER hOCKEY)D) ChEESE ROLLING

One Bow Valley local has big dreams of a new sport that combines the finesse of figure skat-ing and the loft of kiting.

Always a figure skater, but never a great one, founder Meagan Stewart wanted to find a way to give herself more height, something she didn’t have in her own jumps. Serious about her sport, Stewart is looking to develop a custom kite and find athletes who can bring the dream of figure kiting to fruition. (She even pitched her idea to the Red Bull Launchpad competi-tion and made their Top 10 before being cut.)

“I definitely want to see women innovating in action sports,” Stewart says. “It’s OK to be feminine and extreme.”

Check it out at mountainmegs.tumblr.com. - MJW

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Comprised of 20 large-scale carbon pigment colour prints, the photographic series “After, Portraits from Denali” (pg.48) is a visual ex-ploration of the human condition after a climb of North America’s highest peak. It documents the human experience through the commu-nicative power of the face, explores the physi-cal manifestation of the journey’s toll and celebrates the human capacity to endure. En-gaging the viewer, each portrait provides an opportunity to seek out those curious physi-ological details of the face resulting from the ravages of exhaustion, ultimately accentuating the emotional condition of the climber. -KD

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FEaTuRED BLOGGER: NiKi wilsoN BaSED IN JaSPER, NIKI WILSON (NIKIWILSON.COm) aND hER huSBaND, GEOFF, LOVE ShaRING ThEIR PaSSION FOR NaTuRE aND CONSERVaTION WITh ThEIR SON, DYLaN. haVING STuDIED EVERYThING FROm mOuNTaIN PINE BEETLES TO mammOThS, ShE REGuLaRLY ShaRES a uNIquE VIEW TO SCIENCE aND mOThERhOOD IN hER COLumN ON hIGhLINEONLINE.Ca TITLED Two BiologisTs and a Boy.

You can read her insightful and entertaining articles at bit.ly/nikiwilson.

KuDOS TO RICK COLLIER

If you’ve scrambled anywhere in the Canadian Rockies, you’ve probably seen his name in the summit register. That’s because Rick Collier had climbed more peaks in the Rockies than anyone else – more than 1,300 – before he lost his life in a tragic accident on Mt. Geikie on August 15, 2012, at the age of 71.

Shying away from the public spotlight, Collier climbed to ex-plore and graciously made his knowledge and route descriptions available to other climbers (check it out at bit.ly/rickcollier).

Climb on, friends, and do it Collier-style: with an eagerness to learn, explore and pay it forward.

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mix up some couGar’s milKThis high-octane treat is loaded with calories and hailed for its pain-numbing qualities. The exact origins of this classic back-country beverage are unknown, but what is certain is that Cou-gar’s Milk was the hot liquid of choice for early mountain pioneers in the Canadian Rockies. Among those adventurers are Ken Jones, the first Canadian-born mountain guide, and Erling Strom, who managed Assiniboine Lodge for decades and, according to Chic Scott’s Summits and Icefields, may have coined the drink’s name.

YOu WILL NEED:1 larGe muG 1 oz rum (spiced if you liKe)1 tBsp coNdeNsed milKhot, hiGh-quality h2oNutmeG, for spriNKliNG

Stir the ingredients together, and sprinkle some nutmeg on top. Then, sit back, sip and steep your soul in some mountain history!

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The Alpine Club of Canada, Canada’s national mountaineer-ing organization, has six Sections across Alberta, each offering climbing and skiing adventures and regular socials. Check this space for seasonal happenings.

More information from each Section, including trip schedules, social calendars, upcoming events and how to join, is available at al-pineclubofcanada.ca/sections.

Calgary SeCTIOn

The Calgary Section is very active in the winter months with a full slate of weekend trips for skiers and climbers as well as a mid-winter ice climbing camp and a spring ski camp.

Calgary Section meets on the third Tuesday of each month through the winter at 7:30pm at the Bow Waters Canoe Club in Calgary at 1975 36th Street SE. They feature guest presenters and the opportunity to social-ize with other members, or even meet new climbing or skiing partners over drinks.

eDMOnTOn SeCTIOn

There is a great community of climbers and skiers in Edmon-ton who make weekend treks to the mountains. The Edmon-ton Section runs trips ranging from one-day to one-week long and includes indoor climbing,

aLPINE CORNERmountain adventures and lead-ership training.

Through the winter months, the Edmonton Section gets to-gether monthly at the Old Strath-cona Performing Arts Centre, 8426 Gateway Boulevard, at 7:30 p.m. on the third Tuesday of every month for slide shows, guest speakers and socializing.

rOCky MOunTaIn SeCTIOn

Usually on the first Tuesday of each month, the Rocky Moun-tain Section holds monthly meetings that are all about get-ting together and sharing expe-riences and fellowship.

CenTral alberTa SeCTIOn

Open to everyone, monthly meetings of the Central Alberta Section are held throughout the winter on the first Tuesday of the month at the Collicutt Centre in Red Deer. Trip schedules, in-cluding climbing wall evenings and annual skills reviews, are posted online.

JaSper / HInTOn SeCTIOn

The Jasper / Hinton Section serves members from all over west, central and northern Al-berta and British Columbia. The section offers regular outings as well as courses in avalanche awareness, wilderness travel, snow and ice mountaineering and leadership skills.

SOuTHern alberTa SeCTIOn

The newest Alberta section of the ACC (since May of 2012) is based in the Lethbridge area. The SA section claims the mountains of Waterton, Crowsnest Pass, Fernie, Glacier National Park (in Montana) and even the Tetons as their stomping grounds. See their website for a full list of section skiing and ice climbing outings, and for information on social events.

PERFECTING ThE SNOT ROCKET 1. rememBer driver’s ed? start with a solid shoulder checK.

2. press firmly oN oNe Nostril, aNd close your mouth.

3. leaN your upper Body away from the ceNterliNe (Keep the up-tracK mucus-free).

5. Blow the air out of your other Nostril iN a short, powerful spurt.

6. Be prepared to re-move aNy straGGlers (Better to sacrifice your mitt thaN Get a New NicKName).

- MJW

aNSWER FROm PaGE 12: aLL OF ThE aBOVE.

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Call a Canuck a Yank or a Kiwi an Aussie, and you’re sure to get a re-action. Call a Raven a Crow, and he might just tell you to f ’CAW.

But, you’d be right. The Raven is a Crow – one of many members of the Corvidae or Crow fam-ily, which also includes jays, magpies and other chatty birds.

Habitat, size, tail shape, flight pattern and sound will help you keep your corvids straight so that you can avoid an awkward avian en-counter.

Think of the Raven as the big loud brother of the Corvids. Size-wise, he’s the biggest of the songbirds, soaring silently in wild places with his four-foot swing span and wedge-shaped tail. Gleaming purple-black in the sunshine, the Raven is older, wiser, a keen hunter, and is intelligent enough to use tools and hold

grudges. “Kronk! Kronk! Gurgle! Pop!” The Ra-ven chats up a storm with his wide range of vo-calizations and the ability to imitate sounds.

The poor little Crow lacks the Raven’s wise ways. Fidgety and nervous, the Crow resorts to scavenging for food and begging for scraps. With duller feathers and a straight-edge tail, the Crow flaps his small wings while he flies in a great big flock. “Caw! Caw! Caw!” he says, making a scene with the only sound he has.

It’s no surprise that in European tradition a flock of antsy, hyperactive Crows is seen as an ominous symbol of death, while in Native American culture, the wise old Raven is seen as the keeper of secrets – a vocal messenger from the spirit world and a symbol of change.

Both come bearing news: “Cras, Cras,” which is Latin for “tomorrow.” Humans would be wise to listen.

WhO YOu CaLLIN’ “CROW”?

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ACCORDING TO BOB SANDFORD'S Water and Our Way Of Life, "SNOWFLAKES FORM IN THE ATMOSPHERE WHEN WATER VAPOR FREEZES ON A "SEED PARTICLE." A LOT OF DIFFERENT MATERIALS CAN PER-FORM THIS FuNCTION. SNOW CRySTALS CAN FORM AROuND MOTES OF DuST FROM A CONSTRuCTION SITE, POLLEN CARRIED INTO THE WIND FROM A FARMER'S FIELD, OR SPECKS OF ASH BLASTED INTO THE HIGH ATMOSPHERE FROM A DISTANT VOL-CANO. SNOWFLAKES ALSO FORM AROuND PARTICLES RELEASED INTO THE AIR By AuTOMOTIVE ExHAuST, SALT SPRAy FROM OCEANS, BROKEN BITS OF ICE, OR EVEN AROuND MICROORGANISMS FLOATING IN THE ATMOSPHERE. WHEN yOu TASTE SNOW yOu TASTE THE DuST AROuND WHICH IT FORMED."

Correction: “Dazed and Concussed” (Summer 2012) Brain mapping re-sults help doctors to understand an individual’s neurochemistry to tailor programs involving medications, supplements, dietary changes, neuro-feedback, emotional and psychological support, exercise, hydration, new learning, stress reduction, meditation, and CBT.

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The ice can be so clear in mid-November that you can see schools of fish swimming beneath your feet as you skate. Impromptu games of shinny take place, and the sur-rounding peaks create some of the most picturesque rinks on the planet.

Outdoor skating in the Rockies is a quintessential Canadian experience. Some years in autumn, the ice on lakes and rivers becomes thick enough to skate on be-fore the heavy snow falls. Luckily, some of these natural rinks are maintained by volunteers and local businesses and kept free of snow, making them perfect skating options throughout the winter.

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The Canmore Pond is a hit with families. There are benches to help little ones to tie up their skates.

Gap Lake, between Canmore and Exshaw, provides awesome views of Mt. Lougheed and is often clear of snow because there is almost always wind!

Spray Lake is gorgeous, huge and out of the way – perfect for people who like skating in solitude. Be cautious of ice thickness early in the season; otherwise, skate anywhere on the lake.

Located halfway between Banff and Canmore, Carrot Creek is often the earliest to freeze because it is so shallow. Access is gained from the eastbound lane of the TransCanada, roughly halfway between the two towns. Look for cars parked on the shoulder, and follow the tracks to the pond!

Snaring Pond is a 20-kilometre drive from Jasper and can be a quiet place to skate.

The Jasper Park Lodge clears a large oval on Lake Mildred.

Pyramid Lake Resort often clears a rink on its namesake lake.

Vermilion Lakes often freezes in early November.

At Johnson Lake, the ice is so clear that you can see plants and schools of fish below the ice. Be aware that there can be open water at the far end of the lake.

The wind can be strong enough to blow the snow off Lake Minnewanka. In perfect conditions you can skate to the end of the lake and back. Try from January onward.

A skating oval is usually cleared of snow on the Bow River near the Blue Canoe docks.

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ChECK YO’ SELFKNOW BEFORE YOu GO

The Canadian Red Cross recommends that ice be at least 20-centimetres thick for group skating use.

Parks Canada recommends using a drill to check the thickness of the ice and to check multiple locations on the ice surface.

The safety of the ice is not monitored, and users are cautioned to be especially care-ful near water inflow and outflow areas where the ice may be thinner.

If you happen to fall into the water, hypothermia is a serious concern. It is recom-mended you carry a throw bag or hockey stick to help rescue someone who has fallen through the ice.

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All the locations listed and described here can be found on maps of the area, except for Snaring Pond in Jasper. For directions to Snaring Pond, check out bit.ly/highlineextras.

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Ralphine Locke has a really good memory. She remembers sleeping in a canvas-topped cabin in B.C.’s Bug-

aboos on one of legendary mountain guide Hans Gmoser’s first heli-skiing adventures in 1966.

“I was thrilled to death to be there,” she recalls, “but it was a little chilly.”

She remembers riding on horseback with her uncle Jim Brew-ster for a VIP tour of his new Sunshine ski area when the horses became mired in softening spring snow.

“They had to buck to get themselves free,” she says. “I hung on to my seat. It was a big adventure.”

A self-described tough kid, Ralphine was just ten years old at the time.

Born in 1925, she is the only documented person to be born at Lake Louise where her father managed Brewster horse and bus tours during the summers. They lived in a cabin where the cur-rent Chateau Lake Louise parking lot sits.

“It was a wonderful time,” she says. “Mom encouraged us to no-tice everything about nature. We were so free. There were bears around, but we never worried; we just gave them lots of room.”

In winter they lived in Banff, skiing at Norquay long before chair lifts. The hardships of WWII, however, sent the family to Calgary where Ralphine married Banffite Gerry Locke and raised two children. Her son, Harvey, founded the Yellowstone to Yukon Conservation Initiative.

Then, in her will, Ralphine’s cousin and celebrated Banffite, Eleanor Luxton, requested that Ralphine join the board of the El-eanor Luxton Historical Foundation. She accepted the challenge with gusto.

Now 87, this diminutive yet industrious great-grandmother has seen two of Eleanor’s books re-published and has gained museum status for the historical Luxton home where Ralphine guides visitor tours. She launched a creative writing contest for Banff Community High School students modelled on one she has run for three decades at Strathcona Tweedsmuir School. She con-sults on Whyte Museum exhibits and works on the Bison Belong campaign. At the 2011 Banff Mountain Book Festival, she spar-kled on a story-telling panel.

“I like to be busy,” Ralphine says. “That’s one of the nice things about living here. There’s so much going on.”

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In Canada we have accepted and encour-aged wasteful water use as a social norm. Canadians are the second largest per capita

water users on Earth. In fact, we use twice as much water per person per day as the average European and three and a half times more wa-ter than leading world centres who pride them-selves in water conservation.

Ironically, we waste enormous amounts of energy treating and moving water to where it can be wasted. Additionally, we have real-ized that the energy we are wasting by wasting water is accelerating climate change, which we now know is increasing the frequency and intensity of extreme weather events that have begun to cause enormous damage to the infra-structure we can no longer afford to maintain and replace.

We have, unwittingly, created a positive cli-mate change feedback – an obvious vicious circle – that wastes money while compounding climate change effects. This cycle will acceler-ate until we stop wasting water and the energy it takes to move it to where we waste it.

There is, however, a silver lining in conserva-tion. Canadians can share in the head-turning economic benefits of breaking this cycle. In-dustry example suggests that, for every dollar you save in water use, you can save as much as four dollars more on chemical, electricity and energy costs. Such savings will help free up re-sources that could contribute significantly to assuring that we can afford to maintain and upgrade water infrastructure in both urban and rural areas so that, in turn, water supply and quality are assured in all parts of Canada now and in the future.

Bob Sandford is the EPCOR Chair of the Ca-nadian Partnership Initiative in support of the United Nations Water for Life Decade. Bob’s new book, Cold Matters: The State & Fate of Canada’s Fresh Water will be published by Rocky Moun-tain Books in the fall of 2012.

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WE CANADIANS TAKE OuR ABuNDANCE OF FRESH, CLEAN WATER FOR GRANTED. AS MOuNTAIN PEO-PLE, IN THE FACE OF DEPLETION AND POLLuTION OF OuR WATER RESOuRCES, WE HAVE AN OPPOR-TuNITy TO ACT AS STEWARDS OF THE WATER TOW-ERS OF THE CONTINENT.

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Keep a jug of drinking water in your fridge rather than running your tap until the water gets cool each time you want a drink.

Reduce water usage by about 20% by plac-ing a weighted plastic bottle filled with water into the water tank of your toilet. With a toilet insert like this, a fam-ily of four could save 45,000 litres of water per year.

Wash only full loads in your wash-ing machine. Use the shortest cycle possible for washing clothes, and use the “suds-saver” feature if your machine has one.

Wash your dishes at least 10 metres away from the water’s edge.

Use sand instead of soap to scrub them clean. If possible, dish water should be disposed of in sandy soils.

If a latrine is needed only for temporary use, dig a shallow pit approximately 15 centimetres deep, at least 10 metres away from the water’s edge, and cover it with dirt when you’re finished.

Find out how you can make a difference:Bow River Basin Council: brbc.ab.ca

The Living By Water Project: livingbywater.caGovernment of Alberta – Water for Life Project: waterforlife.alberta.ca

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If we do not want toxic chemicals harming the environment and coming back to us in our water or food, we must dispose of household chemicals properly. Such products as oven cleaners, toilet bowl cleaners, sink drain cleaners, bleaches, rust removers, and most other acidic and alkali products should be used up completely. This also includes paints, solvents, carpet and furniture cleaners, pol-ishes, and glues. Use eco-friendly products whenever possible, and don’t ever flush chemicals into the sewer or the storm drain.

CONSERVING OuR WATER MEANS NOT ONLy NOT WASTING IT, BuT ALSO CONSERVING ITS quALITy By KEEPING IT CLEAN! HERE ARE SOME SIMPLE SuGGESTIONS FOR WAyS TO SAVE AND PRESERVE WATER, INSPIRED By Water and Our Way Of Life, ALSO By BOB SANDFORD (HIGHLINE-RECOMMENDED READING).

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Some years ago, Dan heeded the call to “go west, young man.” As with so many other ad-venturers, the view of the mountains erupt-ing out of the prairies made for a journey of no return.

His love for the mountains is equally matched by his love for the sea. He has spent many nights being lulled to sleep by a gentle swell, and spent days being

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It’s a sickening feeling: standing on the edge of a lake in the dead of winter, jeers ringing in my ears, machismo on the line. I had to jump – buck jones naked – through

a small hole in the ice as payment for a poor Superbowl bet. My heart in my throat, my hands clenched, all I could think about was Leonardo DiCaprio explaining to Kate Winslet the pain of jumping into glacial water in Titanic. Damn you, Leo! Damn you and your fantastic acting!

I plunged into the bitterly cold water and immediately pan-icked as it swept over my head. It took all my concentration to claw my way back onto the ice. Taunts involving “raisins” and “shrimp” poured down on me as I shamefully skittered indoors to a warm shower, vowing to never again bet on the Colts.

I still get goose bumps thinking about it, so you can imagine my disbelief when a speed skating friend of mine mentioned how she “couldn’t wait” for an ice bath after training.

Speed skaters are borderline bananas; they spend their time screaming around ice at 50km/h with razor blades strapped to their feet, wearing uniforms tighter than the wool sweaters grandma used to knit, so I expect to hear some odd stuff from them. But hearing her say she was looking forward to an ice bath made me freeze in my tracks.

“You mean you’re willingly going to sit in a bath of ice? Like, you want to?”

“Absolutely! All the athletes do it. Muscles recover so much faster after an ice bath.”

I considered suggesting that a cold beer and a lounging ses-sion on the couch watching Jeopardy works pretty well, but thought I’d do some research before opening my yap.

It turns out that cold-water therapy was popularized in Scandinavia more than 100 years ago but only recently started gaining steam in athletic circles. It involves immersing your-self in a tub of water at 5 to 15 degrees Celsius, not just after injury but also after exercise. I’m pretty sure an intense war-rior scream is mandatory as you take the plunge.

So why would you put yourself through it? If you’re like me, it’s a bad combination of pride and stubbornness. But research-ers say there are better reasons to try cold-water therapy: de-creased muscle soreness and faster muscle healing. That’s because it limits the buildup of lactate and prevents inflam-mation of damaged muscle. Scientists say they’ve really only touched the tip of the iceberg and more studies are needed, but Canada’s top athletic therapists are already implementing it into their athletes’ recovery programs.

“Cold-water therapy is very athlete specific, but generally we find endurance athletes benefit from it,” says Dale Butterwick, Athletic Therapy Program Coordinator at the University of Calgary. “Usually we see pain relief and quicker recovery from 10 to 20-minute immersions.”

All right, so elite athletes willingly immerse themselves in a freezing cold tub of ice. They also spend five or more hours a day pushing their bodies to the limit, however, so we know they are a little crazy. We mere mortals have more common sense. We might throw Epsom salts in a bath, but that’s it. Right?

Apparently not. Evidently, even we casual athletes have some inner narwhal. One study pegged cold-water therapy as the fastest growing treatment among recreational marathon-ers. Moreover, during the past two decades, people have been flocking like penguins to try a “polar bear dip,” an increasingly popular activity that involves jumping into water in the dead of winter. Last year nearly 40 people became human popsicles at Jasper’s Bear’s Paw Polar Dip. You have to wonder if all that thin mountain air has gone to their heads.

Still, I could use some pain relief and muscle recovery, espe-cially after an ambitious day on the slopes leaves me too sore to sit. So I figured I’d give it another try. And you know, it wasn’t really that bad. I just had to discover the missing ingredient those Scandinavians hadn’t mentioned: vodka.

See how it’s done the Scandinavian way at bit.ly/extremepolarbear

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Sheena Miller is the type of person who could be happiest living in a van, down by the river. She hops out of her 1984 Volkswagen Vanagon (christened “Paul” after learning she

should always name a van after one of the disciples) in front of the Blue Canoe docks, one hand digging into a Ziploc bag of frozen blueberries. With the other hand she is unstrapping a yellow, 18-foot ocean kayak that she has just spent 200 hours building with her partner-in-crime, Leland Clark. Now they’re constructing a second one in hopes of rowing side-by-side next summer from Vancouver to Skagway, Alaska.

Originally from Penticton, B.C., Sheena grew up on the water, so when she describes the plans for the two-month paddle up the coast, her eyes light up to match her electric blue mascara. “The best I feel in life is when I’m outdoors,” she says as she rows up-stream on the Bow River. “This is where I find peace.” Having worked in fire management and pine beetle research for Parks Canada, as well as ski patrol with Lake Louise Ski Area, Shee-na has reached her moment of Zen many times over. This mountain gal is also an avid runner, cyclist, climber, skier, rafter, swimmer and triathlete. She even announces races like the Ultraman and

Ironman when she’s not competing in them. In her spare time, she works at Patagonia and co-organizes Craft Café, a series of Banff community-based artisan nights. She has a teaching degree in Phys Ed and aims to write her own outdoor cookbook one day, boasting her badass specialty sushi made with sprouted brown rice and fresh fish.

Sheena admits with a laugh that she’s a classic example of the Bow Valley overachiever, sampling everything and anything with her ‘jill-of-all-trades’ lifestyle.

Regarding her super-human athletic capabilities, Sheena is known around town as “Ma-Sheena.” Her achievements include running up Mt. Kilimanjaro in just three days and being the young-est finisher in the 2009 Ultraman World Championship in Hawaii. Not to be forgotten is the time when she was hard at work promot-ing Patagonia products during a race at the Canmore Nordic Cen-tre and spontaneously decided to join the runners. Legend has it she snatched a sports bra from a nearby booth, put it on over her shirt and took off in her jean shorts, sprinting down the trail. “It’s not my aim to be the best at anything,” explained Sheena. “My aim is to enjoy, get out, and do it.”

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IThe Banff Mountain Film and Book Festival, which takes place each year over a period of nine days in late October and early November, is the world’s greatest celebration of mountain culture. Held at The Banff Centre, high on Tunnel Mountain overlooking the Bow Valley, the Festival showcases mountain books and films and features some of the planet’s most renowned mountaineers and adventurers.

In the Centre’s theatres you can experience on-the-edge-of-your-seat tales of hard rock and steep snow. But for me the biggest thrill is to walk the halls at intermission and mingle with the real flesh and blood adventurers them-selves. If you are up for it, you can join them in the pub at the end of the evening for flaming shooters and endless tall tales.

The Banff Mountain Festival is not the first of its kind. That honour goes to Italy’s Trento Mountain Film Festival, which was first held in 1952. And, while the Banff Mountain Festival might now be the largest, it rose from humble beginnings in 1976, with foundations laid by several forerunners.

It was Hans Gmoser, known worldwide as the father of the heli-ski empire Canadian Moun-tain Holidays, who pioneered the idea of a vi-sual celebration of the mountains and a gather-

ing of the mountain community. Between 1957 and 1968, Hans created and toured ten films across North America. From late October until the end of February, he travelled the continent in his little Volkswagen, presenting his films at over 50 venues, including major ones like Los Angeles, New York, Montreal and Toronto and small mountain towns like Nelson, Rossland and Revelstoke. In Detroit Hans drew a crowd of 2,500 people.

In 1963 I saw my first Hans Gmoser film, Skis Over McKinley, in the Jubilee Auditorium in Cal-gary. The theatre was packed, and at intermis-sion Hans mingled with the crowd in the foyer. The evening was the highlight of the moun-taineer’s social calendar. Other filmmakers toured North America at that time — John Jay, Dick Barrymore and Warren Miller — but they showed primarily ski racing and resort skiing.

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Hans’ films were different, featuring ski tour-ing in the Little Yoho Valley and Rogers Pass and climbing on Mount Logan, Mount Robson and Denali (Mount McKinley). Hans gave many of us our first glimpses of the world of the al-pinist and ski mountaineer. For me, and friends like Don Gardner and Charlie Locke, Hans ex-erted a profound influence and changed our lives. We left our small town Calgary teenage world for exciting lives in the emerging Rocky Mountain climbing scene.

In 1966 local climbers Brian Greenwood and Don Vockeroth brought a celebrated French mountain guide, Gaston Rebuffat, to Canada. With a film titled Entre Terre et Ciel (Between Heaven and Earth), Rebuffat toured the coun-try, playing major venues like the Jubilee Au-ditoriums in Calgary and Edmonton. Created by Pierre Tairraz, this film is a marvellous

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evocation of the beauty and romance of alpin-ism in the Mont Blanc Range of the French Alps. As a student at the University of British Colum-bia at the time, I saw the film at a packed Queen Elizabeth Theatre in Vancouver. After this, the granite aiguilles above Chamonix became the object of my alpine pilgrimage.

In the summer of 1973, while instructing a rock climbing school in Leysin, Switzerland with the great Scottish mountaineer, Dougal Haston, I casually asked him if he would be in-terested in touring Canada. Three years earlier he had climbed the south face of Annapurna, one of the major peaks of the Nepalese Hima-laya, on an expedition led by Chris Boning-ton. Presenting the film of the climb would be perfect for the laconic Haston. He said, “Why not?” so I wrote to Pat Boswell in Banff (he ran the Alpine Club of Canada (ACC) at that time) and Pat agreed. In February of 1974, Dougal crossed Canada with the film, each show being organized by the local section of the ACC. The ACC only guaranteed Dougal $50 or $100 for each show, but he knew he would do a lot better than that. And he did, with sold out shows from Montreal to Vancouver Island. It was obvious that there was a tremendous appetite in this country for films and slide presentations by

the world’s greatest climbers. The ACC was so pleased that they asked me to invite someone else for the following year.

I had just read an article about an outstand-ing lecture given in England by an Austrian climber named Kurt Diemberger. I tracked down his recently published autobiography, Summits and Secrets, and discovered a man with a stellar climbing career — first ascents of two 8,000 metre peaks, expeditions to the Hindu Kush in Afghanistan and to Greenland, and ascents of many of the great north faces in the Alps. I wrote to Kurt, and he immediately accepted an invitation to tour Canada for the ACC in April of 1975.

While I spent the summer of 1974 in Switzer-land working with Clint Eastwood filming The Eiger Sanction, a letter arrived from Canada: the ACC was getting worried about Diemberg-er: Could he speak English? Did he have good material? They asked me to travel to Austria to find out. After the filming ended, I took the train to Salzburg where Kurt lived. Over the next four days I hiked, ate and drank beer with Kurt. Sitting in his apartment, surrounded by his magnificent collection of fossils, crystals and souvenirs from around the world, he showed me his films and slides. I quickly learned that

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his English was excellent, and that his mate-rial was outstanding. The next winter Kurt toured Canada and was a great success. I remember sitting backstage in Calgary with Kurt and Herb Kariel, the chairman of the ACC’s Calgary section, watching them count out piles of twenty-dollar bills. Sport stores in San Francisco and Seattle got word that Kurt was touring Canada, and invited him south

to lecture. The tour had turned into a bonanza.

That winter the first moun-tain film festival in Banff was conceived. The executive of the Banff Section of the ACC — Ev-elyn Moorehouse, Betty Ware, Patsy Murphy, John Amatt and myself — were sitting around brainstorming about what the club could do for community projects. We had just orga-nized shows for Haston and Diemberger, and some of us, years earlier, had also been thrilled with Gmoser’s film of-ferings. It was not a great leap of imagination to conceive of something more permanent, and someone suggested that Banff would be perfect for a film festival like the one held at Trento each year. The town was quiet in the autumn and would appreciate any addi-

tional business, and The Banff Centre was the perfect venue.

John Amatt immediately saw potential in the idea, and, working in partnership with Patsy Murphy, turned it into a reality. On October 31, 1976, the first Banff Festival of Mountaineering Films was held. It was a suc-cess right from the beginning, and John, with the assistance of others including Patsy and Denise Lemaster, was to guide the festival or-ganization for over a decade.

In 1988 Bernadette McDonald became di-rector and led the Festival to a new level. In 1994 she initiated the first mountain book fes-tival, and in 2000 hosted over 30 of the world’s greatest mountaineers in Banff — perhaps the pinnacle of her career. But McDonald’s most enduring legacy may be the World Tour, where a selection of the finest films shown in Banff travel to film festivals in other countries. Be-gun in the late 70s when Patsy chauffeured old-fashioned film reels to a handful of Ca-nadian showings, the tour now travels to 390

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locations around the world and reaches 280,000 people. In 2006, Shannon O’Donoghue, who had been working with McDonald since 1998, took over as festival director. The story of these early years of the festival is well told by Amatt and McDonald in the book Voices from the Summit.

Since 2010 Joni Cooper has been at the helm of the Banff Mountain Festival, and her team continues to create a stellar show. A major factor that contributes to the festival’s overwhelming success is The Banff Centre itself, with three large the-atres for presentations, rooms for trade displays, accom-modation for visitors and, of course, the technical backup of a world-class performing arts centre. None of the other festivals around the world have the resources that exist in Banff.

The festival is now going into its 37th year and today wel-comes about 15,000 mountain lovers. A real source of pride for Canada and for Banff, it has evolved over the years and

continues to evolve today. The appetite for mountain adventure that Canadians showed in the 1950s has not diminished, and the num-ber of Canadian mountain lovers has grown beyond our wildest dreams. The imagination and creativity of the film festival forerunners has borne fruit, resulting in a marvellous annual event.

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Sources: CBC, Statistics Canada, The Council of Canadians, toxicfreecanada.ca, nviromind.com, The Polaris Institute – insidethebottle.org,

Wellington Water Watchers, Environmental Working Group, Town of Canmore Public Works, blueplanetnetwork.org.

Canada: the land of freshwater lakes and democracy. Clean, cheap, plentiful water pours from our taps, quenching our thirst, washing our bodies and clothes - heck, we even soak

our lawns and clean our cars with the stuff. Yet, consumers are in-creasingly gravitating to the idea of water in a bottle rather than from the tap, swallowing the multi-national corporations’ rhetoric that bottled is safer and healthier than tap water. The reality is that bottled water is an unnecessary luxury, and one that is leading us down a precarious path.

According to Statistics Canada, 65 bottlers are now vigor-ously slurping up our water supply and trucking it far away from our taps and future generations of Canadians. In her book, Blue Covenant: The Global Water Crisis and the Coming Battle for the Right to Water, Canadian author and activist Maude Bar-low writes, “In anticipation of this emerging water market, water entrepreneurs are hunting for new sources of water and buying up bulk water and water rights and holding them for future profit.”

Picture it: a well-known soft drink company sets up at a local wa-ter source (Bow Lake? Spray Lakes? The Bow River, perhaps?), sucks water out of the ground before it can hit our lips and pumps so much water into its bottles that the flow of local creeks is reversed. Sounds dramatic, but that’s exactly what is happening at a Nestlé plant near Guelph, Ontario – with the Canadian government’s blessing.

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aAcquiring leathery, weathered skin is like a rite of passage in a mountain community. Wrinkles – deep as crevasses – are es-teemed as well-earned scars from battles fought against the ele-ments in the alpine.

But, sometimes too much is too much, and the effect that wind, sun and cold can have on our bodies is nothing worth bragging about. Frostbite, sunburn, hypothermia and snow blindness, combined with the remoteness of the wilderness and other nasty factors, can turn a wee problem into a full-scale ordeal.

According to Dave Stark, Director of Operations for Yamnuska Mountain Adventures and IFMGA certified guide, it’s almost always a lack of preparation that compounds the effects of un-controllable backcountry factors like changing weather, injuries, broken equipment or even stumbling across another party in dis-tress. When preparing for a backcountry trip, the “fast-and-light” mentality will get a lot of people in trouble,” he says. What begins as a broken binding on a day trip can turn into a night spent out in freezing temperatures with insufficient protection against the elements.

This winter, skip the suffer-fest stories by learning to protect yourself against some easily pre-ventable, life-threatening moun-tain maladies that can otherwise leave you laid up for weeks.

FROSTBITEEver experienced the dread of someone say-ing to you, Oh, buddy, your cheeks are lookin’ kinda pasty? On a cold day, if you’ve had skin exposed, or have had poor circulation in your extremities, you could be a contender for frost-nip or frostbite.

What’s the difference? Frost-nip is a super-ficial frostbite and will appear as a patch of white skin. The skin will return to normal with warm breath or skin-to-skin rewarming. Frost-bite, on the other hand, actually freezes the blood vessels and surrounding tissue in the af-fected area, and can cause permanent damage. Skin will appear cold, hard and either pale or darkly discoloured.

hOW TO PREVENT IT:• Avoid tightly fitting footwear. • Stay dry and wear moisture-wicking socks. • Wear mittens instead of gloves.• Watch for signs of frost-nip/frostbite on your partners’ exposed areas. • Be extra cautious in high winds or at high altitude. • Stay well hydrated and well fed.

TRY ThIS ON: Cover up! We recommend the Reversible Storm Buff ($43 CAD), which combines Gore Wind-stopper protection with super-soft microfi-ber comfort. When worn around the nose and mouth, the microfiber panel enables you to breathe normally (hallelujah!), and an adjust-able drawstring makes it easy to modify the garment from neckwear to headwear.

why is it important to maintain adequate hydration and nutrition levels?

According to a study at the University of Manitoba by Dr. Gordon Giesbrecht, also known as “Professor Popsicle,” dehydration can lead to decreased blood flow and delivery of heat to peripheral tissues such as the hands and feet (see more on that at bit.ly/highlineextras). Foods, particularly those high in carbohydrates, can help us sustain energy and are converted into heat by the body.

by Meghan J. Ward

BE PREPaRED: mOThER NaTuRE PuTS uP a GOOD FIGhT.

54 years: 20,320 feet: 14 days.

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SuNBuRN Ever come away from a day in the mountains with the “red mask of shame?” Taunting from your friends is bad enough, but skin cancer and some of the other consequences of sunburn are also pretty unappealing.

Not only does sunburn cause itching, blister-ing and peeling, but it can also cause headache, fever, nausea and fatigue. Sunburn is caused by ultraviolet (UV) radiation that increases in intensity at higher elevations because there is less atmosphere to absorb the damaging rays. Be extra careful in the mountains and espe-cially on snow, which reflects the sun with even more intensity.

hOW TO PREVENT IT:• Apply sunscreen prior to sun exposure (Health Canada says to choose one that blocks both UVA and UVB rays, with an SPF factor of at least 15), and reapply often. We usually up the SPF above the recommendation. • Be conscious of the likelihood of burning, even on overcast days. • If you’re hard-core, apply Zinc oxide paste (a.k.a. clown white) to your nose and cheeks.• Wear a ball cap or wide-brimmed hat, long sleeves and pants. • Frequently apply lip balm with SPF.• Wear sunglasses (see Snow Blindness).

TRY ThIS ON: The After Sun Body Butter ($16 CAD), from

Rocky Mountain Soap, is an all-natural, locally made option that will soothe inflammation, reduce itching and swelling, cool the skin and speed healing.

hYPOThERmIaYou’ve probably heard the stories of people who become hypothermic, go nuts and rip off all of their clothes. As crazy as they sound, the stories are true. In the later stages of this chill-induced malady, a hypothermic person can become dis-oriented and, for some little-understood reason (there are some theories), be compelled to re-move his or her clothing.

But, before this paradoxical undressing oc-curs, an individual has to become hypothermic in the first place. The condition results when the body’s core temperature drops to 35 de-grees Celsius or less. It is most likely to occur after prolonged exposure to chilly, drizzly con-ditions, not necessarily just brutal cold, and it is the leading cause of death in the wilderness.

hOW TO PREVENT IT: • Dress for the weather. • Dress in layers, keeping a quick drying fabric against the skin. De-layer before you begin to sweat, and add a layer if you’re feeling chilled. • Avoid overexertion, but keep moving. • Stay well hydrated and well fed.• Drink hot, sweet liquids. Cougar’s Milk (see Pg. 14) is great once you’re warm and cozy, but alcohol should be avoided in the cold as it can actually speed up heat loss.• Find shelter, or head indoors when you begin to shiver and can’t warm up.

TRY ThIS ON: Available in women’s and men’s sizes, the Pa-tagonia Capilene® 4 Expedition Weight 1/4-Zip Hoody ($130 CAD) is a soft, stretchy, breathable and quick-drying base layer. Use the thumb-holes to keep your sleeves down, and unzip the collar for extra venting.

tip: A runny nose (and frequent wiping) can leave the underside of your nose prone to burning. A quick way to reapply protection is to rub a bit of your SPF lip chap around your nostrils (use your finger or just glide away). Stop the runniness by Per-fecting the Snot Rocket (Pg15).

DID YOu KNOW? WITh EVERY 1000FT OF ELEVaTION aBOVE SEa LEVEL, ThE INTENSITY OF uV RaYS INCREaSES BY 4%

first aid in the wild

Out in the mountains, it’s often up to you to take care of yourself or of someone in your party. If you haven’t done a First Aid course since grade nine, it might be high time to re-cert. Better yet, prepare yourself for more remote scenarios with a Wilderness First Aid course. Yamnuska Mountain Adventures hosts both 80-hour and 20-hour programs. yamnuska.com/wilderness-first-aid

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SNOW BLINDNESSIn the alpine, a good pair of sunglasses can be as important as a rope.

Like your skin, your eyes are vulnerable to radiation. Without eye protection, you can burn your corneas without feeling any imme-diate discomfort. Later, the excruciating pain and temporary vision loss of snow blindness (also known as UV keratitis) will kick in. Better to be safe than sorry!

hOW TO PREVENT IT: • Wear your goggles or sunglasses (have someone in your group bring a spare set).• Cover your eyes, even in cloudy conditions. • If you forgot your eyewear, make some. A few layers of folded duct tape, with eye holes cut into it, works well, or cut some slits in your Buff – whatever you have to do (Google “Inuit goggles” for inspiration).• If you’d like to know how snow blindness feels, go for laser eye surgery (just ask the author).

TRY ThIS ON: Invest in some good, quality sunglasses. We like the Alpine Polarchromic Sunglasses ($95 CAD) from Mountain Equipment Co-op. They auto-adjust to brightness and come with side panels that clip into the glasses for added pe-ripheral protection.

Sources: Wilderness Medical Society: Practice Guide-lines for Wilderness Emergency Care, Edited by Wil-liam W. Forgey; Mountaineering: Freedom of the Hills, Edited by Steven M. Cox and Kris Fulsaas; Dave Stark.

34 years: 20,320 feet: 17 days.

32 years: 20,320 feet: 15 days.

Photographs: Tim Remick is an Anchorage based freelance photographer whose work has been recognized by the Banff Mountain Film Fes-tival Photography Contest in both 2004 and 2011. The series “After, Portraits from Denali” was a recipient of the Patricia B. Wolf Solo Artist Ex-hibit awarded by the Anchorage Museum. Tim’s photographs have been exhibited at the Alaska State Museum in Juneau, and the Anchorage Museum at The Rasmussen Center. In addition, Tim teaches photography at Alaska Pacific Uni-versity and University of Alaska, Anchorage.

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Every once in a while, a good book draws me in and won’t let go. It immerses me like a rip tide. I can’t quite put my fin-

ger on it, but when it happens I’m usually quite happily drowning in words. This is something only a rare breed of authors can conjure up, and Christian Beamish is one of them.

From the first few pages of The Voyage of the Cormorant, I knew this was going to be an ex-ceptional piece of writing, and a captivating memoir. Beamish is a surfer, and the Cormo-rant is a small boat, lovingly handcrafted by Beamish himself when he decides to abandon the conventional lifestyle of having a steady paycheque and a landlocked home. The vessel is simple but sturdy enough to take him down the coast of California and into Mexico so he can fulfill a dream of surfing secret havens and coves.

Throughout the journey, Beamish’s talent at conveying a memory of a special place or a unique encounter presents itself with remark-able ease. You float along, catching snippets of family life in Mexico or the occasional foray into the anti-social behaviours of narcotics dealers and gangsters. Beamish seems to get lost in self-discovery, too, with all the time in the world to think about life and what matters most. Like John Muir or Henry David Thoreau before him, Beamish revels in nature, some of it wild and some of it very common, though often overlooked in the course of everyday life.

What I like most about this memoir is its un-predictable outcome. You might assume that, after abandoning all material things and forc-ing himself into a simpler life, Beamish might have a “Eureka!” moment. But, he doesn’t. In fact, it’s entirely possible that he makes no progress whatsoever in deciding the direction his life should take. What this book is really about is the here and now. It is about the con-flict we all feel – that push and pull of our con-nection to the planet and our place in it.

The Voyage of the Cormorant flows effortless-ly, much like the Cormorant herself as she slips along in a sturdy breeze.

Christian Beamish is a past participant of the Mountain and Wilderness Writing Program of The Banff Centre, and The Voyage of the Cormo-rant will be a contender in the 2013 Banff Moun-tain Book Competition.

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Joanna Croston is a voracious reader of all types of writing and is the Programming & Event Producer for the Banff Mountain Film & Book Festival.

Sometimes the last thing you want to do fol-lowing a big day carving turns in the moun-tains is to cook dinner, and yet there’s noth-ing quite as satisfying as a home-cooked meal after a day in the cold. So, we’ve asked a kitchen guru for her favourite, easy-to-make, warming dinnertime dish. Make it in advance so all you have to do is heat it up, or show that stove who’s boss when you clip out of your skis.

Preparation time: 45 min. Serves 4

This robust curry lends itself well to a variety of veggies. Just make sure that you add them according to how much time they take to cook. Add cubed tofu or chicken to this dish for a little something extra.

This dish freezes well but only lasts a day in the fridge as coconut milk is fairly perishable.

Serve over steamed brown basmati rice or quinoa.

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by Kristy Davison and Andrew Dawson

Okay. Now that the others have carried on up the trail, Highline has a confes-sion to make: we too are left in the dust

from time to time. We can relate to the back-country experience of a typical Back-of-the-Pack-er (BOTP), one who is often riddled with guilt, competitiveness, nutritional peril and occasionally just the slightest smidgen of self-doubt. So to help you avoid being a self-depre-cating snail, we’ve compiled a comprehensive “trail mix” of crafty tactics that will help you (and us) keep stride with the rest of the wolf pack out there this winter.

You newbies may find these strategies curi-ously sociopathic, but seasoned BOTP-ers like

the ones we surveyed have been employing them for years. Regardless of your level of ex-perience, the tactics suggested here will help liberate you from physical and psychological woes as you pursue your goal of being stoked in the outdoors.

We’ve divided our top 20 tactics into four groups that represent the most common BOTP personality types. Blossom from a rank amateur into a well-rounded and truly en-lightened BOTP-er this season by sampling the following suggestions. Study them well, and keep them in your arsenal for when things get rough. And remember, at the Back of the Pack, the ends always justify the means.

Do you dread those occasions when you find yourself straggling behind your friends in the backcountry?

Have you ever considered lying, cheating or manipulating the dynamics of the group for the sake of your own racing heart and heaving lungs?

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ThE haNDICaPPER

Eat a complete breakfast, but offhand-edly mention that you only ate an apple: “I didn’t have any food in the house this morning.” (Only a bowl of oatmeal, an omelette, two coffees and an orange.) Bring toilet paper.

Tell everyone about the scandalous night you had (and “can’t remember”), despite having gone to bed at 8:30 and spend-ing ten hours in a quasi-hibernative state.

Talk up an old injury (that is currently NOT bothering you).

Wear several layers so you can always take a break to make adjustments.

EXPERT LONGTERM THINKING: Refrain from upgrading your gear so you always maintain the classic excuse of having the heaviest and most outdated set-up in the group.

ThE maNIPuLaTORSuggest a topic you know your friends are passionate about. Excessive talking is guaranteed to slow them down, and all you have to do is listen.

Suggest that a friend’s backpack is open: “Hey, is your backpack open? Let me get that for you.” Then proceed to secretly un-zip the backpack before letting them continue on. They will eventually lose something and have to go back for it, providing you one more rest stop.

Be overly safety conscious: “Should we dig another pit?” (Note: at nine or ten pits in the same location, the group will usually begin to catch on that you are stalling.)

Casually suggest a controversial topic to extend the length of a group break: “What do you guys think about devel-oping Jumbo Glacier - - - wouldn’t that be rad?”

EXPERT MOVE: Stop and rest for five minutes out of sight be-fore arriving at a group rest stop. You’ll appear fresh as a daisy when you come around the cor-ner, boosting your morale and the group's impression of you. Also, you won't feel as choked when the group gets moving the moment you arrive, as the jerks so often like to do.

ThE PRETENDERBe overtly positive about everything: You are “dawdling,” rather than “sucking wind.”Continually stop to “smell the roses” and appreciate nature.

***POTENTIAL BACKFIRE: Friends may discover that Winter Rose was a Cana-dian glam metal band, and probably isn't worth smelling.

When your nose starts to drip uncontrol-lably (see Snot Rockets, page 15), tell oth-ers “I think I’m getting a cold.” It's a great deflection from the fact you are actually dying of exhaustion.

Tell the group you have been taking lots of pictures, which has slowed you down.

BONUS: Later, tell your friends that your memory card was erased so you don’t have to pro-duce any of your fake photos.

ThE CONTROLLER

Always keep some kind of collateral from the group: “I’ll carry the (car keys, first aid kit, spare parts, flask...etc.).”

Be the driver: “I need to leave by about one o'clock (shortening the length of the trip). Is that cool with everybody?”

Keep your friends' bellies in check by car-rying the best snacks: “I made enough (brownies, chocolate chip cookies, lasa-gna...etc.) for everybody!”

Keep a leash on their hearts by constant-ly professing your love for them: “I flippin’ love you guys...”

IMPORTANT: Never let ‘em see you cry.

arts + culture

Of Cabbages &Kings POttery129 Bow Meadows Cr.

Canmore, Alberta

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Terra Magica 103-713 Main StreetCanmore, AB403.609.2614 TerraMagica.ca

Featuring award-winning wilderness photography by Peter A. Dettling. We offer everything from high end limited edition prints to wilderness books, wall calendars, greeting cards and much more. Visit our gallery to indulge yourself in the magical world of nature.

The Peter A. Dettling Gallery & Wilderness Education Centre

Whyte MuseuM of the Canadian RoCkies

111 Bear Street Banff, AB 403.762.2291 whyte.org

Caption: Pinnacle near Abbot Pass, 1930, Dr. George K. K. Link photographer, (V683/I.C.a.i.)

The Whyte Museum’s new “must see” exhibition, Gateway to the Rockies brings to life stories of the men and women who shaped the culture of the Canadian Rockies. Learn more at whyte.org

CAGCanmore artists and artisans Guild

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Contact:Richard Berryrichard@richard-berry.com

The Canmore Library Art Gallery is jointly managed by the Canmore Library and CAAG. A diverse variety of art shows and community art exhibitions such as “Kid’s Art” are featured. The gallery is typically open from 11am to 5pm daily.

Craft Café tiffany & Sheena

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403.763.3275 createbanff.blogspot.com

Looking for a creative escape? Craft Café hosts bi-monthly craft evenings at Wild Flour Café in Banff. Come socialize while making things that will make your friends envious. Actually, just bring your friends and there won’t be any unpleasant confrontations.

LocaLLy Grown Get in on it!Want to see your ad here? info@highlineonline.ca

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The Locally Grown section showcases the businesses that are rooted here in the Rockies. Align your business with Highline and reach an audience of happy, healthy, mountain-loving folks.

Reserve your space in our next issue today.

The Pro Image101 - 717, 9th Street Canmore, AB 403.763.2010 TheProImage.ca

The Pro Image is the Bow Valley’s own professional quality printer. Special-izing in large-format and specialty materials such as canvas and archival photo paper, we are trusted by artists and professional photographers from this area and beyond.

Sunny Raven GalleRy#156, 105 Bow MeadowsCrescent, Canmore, AB403.678.6113 sunnyraven.com

Whatever your treasure, we treat it with care.

- Ready-made frames & mats- Artist supplies and more- Original art and photography by Meg & Paul.

Is framing on your Christmas list? Bring it in early!

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restaurants

Always has been and always will be a proud supporter of the community. The Bagel Co is where locals love to meet: it’s like Canmore’s living room!

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MENTION AD FOR 10% OFF Mon-Thurs after 4:30. Family restaurant creating delicious and wholesome meals! Hand-made flatbread pizzas, daily pastas, house-made soups/salads. Nut-free environment, Celiac and vegetarian options! NoGMOs, 0 Trans Fats, 100% natural. Supported by LOCAL producers.

Harvest Cafe2 - 718 10th Street

Canmore, Alberta

T1W 2A6 403.678.3747 harvestcafe.ca

Hearty, healthy meals and mouth-watering treats make our locally owned and operated café a Bow Valley gem. Must-tries include delicious house-made wraps, soups and THE best cinnamon buns this side of the Rockies. Harvest café – where the Locals eat.

Valbella Gourmet Foods104 Elk Run Boulevard vonrotz@valbella.ca

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Valbella Gourmet Foods has been serving the Bow Valley locally sourced and naturally produced meats for 34 years and counting. Our goal continues to be, unbeatable product quality tied in to tradition as well as product innovation. Visit us in our Deli to taste what it’s all about!

VALBELLA GOURMET FOODS104 Elk Run Boulevard jeff@valbella.ca

403.678.9989 valbella.ca

Valbella Gourmet Foods has been serving the Bow Valley locally sourced and naturally produced meats for 34 years and counting. Our goal continues to be, unbeatable product quality tied in to tradition as well as product innovation. Visit us in our Deli this summer to taste what it’s all about!

Wild Bill’sLEGENDARY SALOON

201 Banff Ave, 2nd Floor 403.762.0333wildbillsbanff.com

Wild Bill’s Legendary Saloon has got you covered for entertainment this winter! Live music, comedy nights, Karaoke Tuesdays and free line-dancing Wednesdays keep this authentic smokehouse snow-bunny-hopping through the snowy winter months.

O BistrO

#2, 626 Main Street Canmore, AB, T1W 2B5

403.678.3313 restaurantobistro.com

Fresh and tasty food in a friendly environment. Chef Olivier Gouin prepares Canadian & French classics with quality ingredients to provide a gourmet experi-ence in a casual setting. Take out available to fuel your journey! Lunch 11am-3pm, Dinner from 5pm.

Chez FranCoisBow Valley Trail

1604 2nd Ave.

Canmore, AB T1W 1M8

403.678.6111 restaurantchezfrancois.com

Breakfast and Brunch served7am-2:30pm. Wake with acappuccino, daily smoothiesor fruit cocktails. Famoushome-made eggs benedict,crepes, French toast, pancakes,and smoked salmonbagels. Gluten-free and take out available!A great meeting place for any meal or dessert!

health + wellness

Canmore Hot Yoga101-1002 8th Avenue

Canmore, Alberta

403.675.9642

Canmore Hot Yoga offers you a dynamic yoga series designed to strengthen, heal and rejuvenate your body. The heat helps warm the muscles and aids the body in detoxification. Be prepared to challenge your body and transform your mind!!

re:focus PILATES contact@refocuspilates.ca 403.688.5500 refocuspilates.ca

The MODERN approach to Pilates | Celebrating 2 years in downtown Canmore! Specializing in pre/post-natal, post-rehab care & athletic conditioning. All instructors are Stott Pilates certified, trained in massage therapy, fitness/dance instruction & extensive continuing education in spinal injuries & post-rehab care.

Red eaRth SpaBanff Caribou Lodge & Spa 521 Banff Ave.Banff, AB 403.762.9292 redearthspa.com

Boasting an extensive treatment menu, the Red Earth Spa at Caribou Lodge makes spa-ing a post hill activity fun enough to rival après-ski story swapping. Unwind in the hot pool and steam room after enjoying a Customized Massage designed specifically for you.

The Yoga Lounge

2nd Floor, 826 Main St. Canmore, AB 403.678.6687 theyogalounge.ca

Happily helping folks in the Bow Valley realize their full potential: physically, mentally and spiritually. Ten years and counting! Namaste.

“If you change the way you look at things, the things you look at change.” - Wayne Dyer

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Back at It Massage

Book Your Appointment Online: backatitmassage.com 403.688.1561

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TasTy Living inc

Healthy living is a state of mind... it’s what you eat, how you approach food, what you do to create balance in your life, and what you do that ultimately feeds your body.

Tasty Living provides you with healthy, delicious-tasting treats that are raw and gluten-free. Find us in the Bow Valley at:

And keep your eye out for us as we grow! For more information on raw foods, healthy lifestyle programs and what we are all about, visit tastyliving.ca.

Nutter’s Canmore communitea café

Canmore Nordic Centre Wild Flour Café

locally GrowNRedstone Custom WindoW Fashions

Redstone is the first choice for custom drapery, blinds, and home décor. We’ll help you design a home that’s more beautiful, functional, and inviting with our passion for drapery, wood shutters, bedding and everything in between. Consultations and installation are included.

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Christian Dubois & Chris VinCentREALTORS® / Associates

403.762.7744 403.707.8048 CanmoreBanffRealEstate.ca

Skiing, biking, hiking, and exploring – living in the Bow Valley is an exceptional lifestyle. Christian & Christopher are committed to helping you with your residential real estate needs in Banff & Canmore; whether it be your full time home or weekend retreat.

Raven RescueTraining & Equipment

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Internationally-recognized courses held in Canmore:

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Outdated rentals getting you down? Head into Ultimate Ski + Ride where Banff’s best range of rental ski and snow-board equipment is fitted by true rental experts. Make your pre-hill prep as smooth as...snow?

At Natur’el Tea, we take pride in sourcing the best organic ingredients and projects supporting fair-trade agriculture.

We love creating new flavours and infusions using flowers, rare spices & essential oils. Our tea looks as beautiful dry as it tastes infused.

Each tin is artfully packaged in Banff using heritage photos from the Whyte Museum archives.

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