Meghan J. Ward, Author at Highline Magazine

Voices of Adventure: Behind the Scenes with Geoff Powter

Posted on November 22, 2012 by Meghan J. Ward | 0 Comments

It requires a unique combination of talents and guts to conduct an engaging, live interview on stage in front of a crowd of 330 people. As a writer, climber and psychologist, Geoff Powter has perhaps the perfect blend of skills and experience to pull it off. One of my favourite events at the Banff Mountain Book and Film Festival each year…

Bernadette MacDonald's choice. She appreciates a book that draws her back to the book shelf, is accurate, well-researched and also presents an authentic mountain adventure.

The Best Mountain Book Ever Written

Posted on November 2, 2012 by Meghan J. Ward | 4 Comments

I hope you’re ready to expand your reading list. Going into this event at the Banff Mountain Film and Book Festival on November 1, I was really curious about how the panel would make a choice for the best mountain book ever written. How does one even go about making such a claim? What would the criteria be for making…

Our Top Pick for BMFF Opening Weekend: Wild Bill’s Run

Posted on October 31, 2012 by Meghan J. Ward | 1 Comments

The Banff Mountain Film Festival took us to many places this past weekend and ones you normally expect to find at the Festival climbing in The Karakoram, travelling with the nomadic people in Ladakh, on expedition with a surgical team in Mustang, and into a backcountry hut with Rockies legend, Chic Scott. But the film that really stole the…

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Gearing Up for the Banff Mountain Festivals: First Weekend Preview

Posted on October 25, 2012 by Meghan J. Ward | 0 Comments

We’re just days away from one of our favourite times of year, the Banff Mountain Film & Book Festival! Tickets are going quick and some events are already sold out, but you’re in luck if you’re looking to attend the first weekend, coming up October 27 and 28, 2012. You can check out the full festival schedule for events, but…

Banff Rocks It Out in the Rain with Sam Roberts Band and Dan Mangan

Posted on June 24, 2012 by Meghan J. Ward | 1 Comments

Steady rain was no match for Dan Mangan and Sam Roberts Band, who drew a huge crowd at this year’s Performance in the Park in Banff’s Cascade Gardens on Saturday, June 23. The sold-out show saw brightly coloured umbrellas dancing to the tunes as storm clouds swirled around the surrounding peaks. Highline Magazine had the chance for a brief catch up…

6 Ways to Rediscover Lake Louise

Posted on May 24, 2012 by Meghan J. Ward | 0 Comments

A mountain-loving local, somewhat disenchanted by the overdevelopment of one of the Rockies’ most beautiful lakes, takes the time to rediscover it. Quiet mornings spent standing on the shores of Lake Louise with no one else in sight often stir up a small injection of adrenaline for me. While indigo waters gently lap on shore, I close my eyes and imagine…

Whyte Museum’s Gateway to the Rockies

Posted on May 7, 2012 by Meghan J. Ward | 0 Comments

My feet tread lightly on a plastic sheet as I enter the construction zone of the Whyte Museum’s new Gateway to the Rockies exhibition. As the museum’s Marketing and Communications Specialist, Pamela Challoner, guides me through the tangled web of artifacts yet to be installed, she gets a yelp from Curator of Photography, Craig Richards, who is mounted on an early 1900s-era…

H Gear Review: BOGS Alex I

Posted on May 3, 2012 by Meghan J. Ward | 0 Comments

RATING $100.00 CAD Reviewer: Meghan J. Ward My Gear Style: Another Chance to Show My Personality Use It Til It Disintegrates Best Bang for Your Buck Buccaneer My Gear Room is a Shrine A rubber boot with an inner bootie? Now that’s a rubber boot my skinny ankles can actually get used to! Forever plagued with “ski” feet and…

A Spice a Day in May

Posted on April 26, 2012 by Meghan J. Ward | 0 Comments

It’s no secret that spices are good for you. Each one has medicinal properties that’ll cure what ails you (check out these 7 Super Spices). So, how’s this for a fundraiser? Spice Sanctuary owner, Trusha Patel, wanted to create a fundraiser that made participation simple and easy, so she ground up A Spice a Day in May. You pay $10, eat a spice…

Dare to Disconnect

Posted on February 27, 2012 by Meghan J. Ward | 5 Comments

Ping! New text message. Ping! Someone just tagged you. Ping! Ping! Ping! Your inbox is full. With so much commanding our attention these days, it’s easy to feel like were drowning in a tidal wave of messages that arrive daily through our phones, computers and personal devices. At some point, it seems the only way to catch a break is…

Voices of Adventure: Behind the Scenes with Geoff Powter

The Best Mountain Book Ever Written

Our Top Pick for BMFF Opening Weekend: Wild Bill’s Run

Gearing Up for the Banff Mountain Festivals: First Weekend Preview

Banff Rocks It Out in the Rain with Sam Roberts Band and Dan Mangan

6 Ways to Rediscover Lake Louise

Whyte Museum’s Gateway to the Rockies

H Gear Review: BOGS Alex I

A Spice a Day in May

Dare to Disconnect

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