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I Thought I Loved You, Volkswagen, But Now I’m Not So Sure

I like to believe that within an imperfect system, there are still companies out there that are doing their best to be good. VW, it turns out, has been actively doing wrong. On purpose. To sell cars.

Two Years: Some Nostalgic Philosophizing

Two years ago, Chris Hadfield gave his now-famous space performance, making being an astronaut even cooler. An 80-year-old man named Yuichiro Miura became the oldest person to climb Mount…

Summer of Stone and Surf: Solo Hiking and Imaginary Cougars (or how I was not the girl from Wild)

  A blue bird had been flying ahead of me on the trail for a good few kilometres, flitting to the next branch whenever I got too close….

Summer of Stone and Surf: On Trust

On my third day in Canmore, I was lucky enough to climb Eeyore’s Tail, a 10 pitch, 355 meter route up the face of East End of Rundle…

Summer of Stone and Surf: Having New Eyes

  Two days ago, at a bookstore/cafe in Golden, I opened a book about “vital energy” to discover a quote by Proust: “The voyage of discovery is not…

Summer of Stone and Surf: The Beginning

It’s officially the summer of stone and surf, and I couldn’t be happier. Did I steal the name from a hat I saw at a shop in Revelstoke?…

Dreamscape Scampering, or How a Summer Was Planned

I got the idea, not surprisingly, during a mountain film fest climbing night that started out as a first date, and became (also not surprisingly) a reunion. One of…

A Spam-Mail Poetry Celebration

This weekend, it was my birthday. At 32, I am now safely back in even-number territory, and everything feels better already. After the stress of worrying that everyone…

5 Signs That It’s Been Too Long Since Your Last Hiking Trip

1. You are mysteriously missing gaiters and a dry bag that you later realize you lent to your brother for a trip he took last summer. It has definitely…

Why This Guy is Having More Fun Than You (Or Snow: 90% Attitude)

It didn’t snow much on the West Coast this year. The ski season started sometime in late December and ended about two weeks later. At least, that’s what…