Captain/coach of the Lady Macs, Rachelle "Skid Roe" Honeyman.

Lady Macs prepare to attack

It’s going to be like the battle of Sparta but on roller skates as the Lady Macs attack the competition on April 27.

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Know Your Neighbour Night III

Thanks for helping us make this Know Your Neighbour Night III the best one yet! Our Creative Media Intern, Camara Miller, had a blast (and worked her butt off) filming, organizing, directing and creating the original Know Your Neighbour Night trailer that you saw at the beginning of the night. If you missed the screening of the KYNN trailer, or…

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Voices of Adventure: Behind the Scenes with Geoff Powter

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…

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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

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…

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

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

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…

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Jumpstart Creativity Tour Craft Evening

Here in the Bow Valley we have a diverse group of artists, artisans, crafters, and writers. Our beautiful outdoor spaces provide tons of inspiration and there are many opportunities to create or to take part in the creations of others. I was recently contacted by Jess Greene, from Massachusetts, who runs a website called Seek Your Course, where teachers of art…

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

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…

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Performance in the Park: Sam Roberts Band

June 23. 2012. Banff. Be there for Montreal’s Sam Roberts Band. Can’’t you just imagine sitting at Cascade Gardens with the Rockies swaddling you as you rock out to this handsome and very talented Canadian musician? We sure can! Oh, you want more? Okay, how about with special guest Dan Mangan. Double wicked! You want even more? We’re giving away two free…

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Fair Trade in the Rockies?

Tomorrow is World Fair Trade Day. What does that mean for us in the Bow Valley? In my quest for fair trade suppliers in the Bow Valley, I stumbled upon an article that reminded me that Canmore was actually designated a Fair Trade Community in July 2010. How did I not remember this? And did you know about it? Wolfville,…

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